10-letter words that end in sm
- omnivorism — eating both animal and plant foods.
- ontologism — the doctrine that the human intellect has an immediate cognition of God as its proper object and the principle of all its cognitions.
- organicism — Philosophy. the view that some systems resemble organisms in having parts that function in relation to the whole to which they belong. Compare holism (def 1).
- orthoprism — a prism which has faces parallel to its vertical axis
- ostrichism — the act of refusing to accept reality or hiding one's head in the sand
- pacificism — opposition to war or violence of any kind.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pancosmism — the philosophical doctrine that the material universe is all that exists
- panslavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
- pansophism — a claim or pretension to pansophy.
- paralogism — argument violating principles of valid reasoning.
- parasitism — Biology. a relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another.
- partialism — a theory or view that does not take into account all the facts
- pasteurism — a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies
- patrialism — (in Britain formerly) the policy regarding conferment of patrial status
- patriotism — devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
- pedagogism — the principles, manner, method, or characteristics of pedagogues.
- pentaprism — a prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used especially in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
- phallicism — worship of the phallus, especially as symbolic of power or of the generative principle of nature.
- pharisaism — the principles and practices of the Pharisees.
- phoenixism — the process of making a business insolvent in order to evade paying debts and then setting the business up again under a new name
- phytoplasm — protoplasm of a plant or plants.
- plagiarism — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- polygenism — the theory that the human race has descended from two or more ancestral types.
- polymerism — Chemistry. a polymeric state.
- polytheism — the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
- positivism — the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance.
- pragmatism — character or conduct that emphasizes practicality.
- presbytism — the condition of being affected by presbyopia
- presentism — a partiality towards present-day points of view, esp by those interpreting history
- prosaicism — prosaic character or style.
- prostatism — symptoms of prostate disorder, especially obstructed urination, arising from benign enlargement or chronic disease of the prostate gland.
- proteanism — readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- protoplasm — Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- psittacism — mechanical, repetitive, and meaningless speech.
- psychicism — the belief in or study of psychic phenomena
- puritanism — the principles and practices of the Puritans.
- pyrrhonism — the Skeptic doctrines of Pyrrho and his followers.
- rachmanism — extortion or exploitation by a landlord of tenants of dilapidated or slum property, esp when involving intimidation or use of racial fears to drive out sitting tenants whose rent is fixed at a low rate
- radicalism — the holding or following of radical or extreme views or principles.
- re-baptism — a new or second baptism
- recidivism — repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime.
- refugeeism — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- relativism — any theory holding that criteria of judgment are relative, varying with individuals and their environments.
- retreatism — the rejection of culturally prescribed goals and the conventional means for attaining them.
- revanchism — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- revivalism — the form of religious activity that manifests itself in revivals.
- rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
- ruffianism — conduct befitting a ruffian.
- salicylism — poisoning by aspirin