7-letter words that end in sm
- orphism — the religious or philosophical system of the Orphic school.
- owenism — the socialistic philosophy of Robert Owen.
- photism — a form of synesthesia in which a visual sensation, as of color or form, is produced by the sense of touch, hearing, etc.
- pianism — the artistry and technique of a pianist.
- pietism — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- plenism — the philosophical theory that there are no vacuums in nature
- rankism — discrimination against people on the grounds of rank
- realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- saktism — Shaktism.
- sarcasm — harsh or bitter derision or irony.
- scotism — the set of doctrines of Duns Scotus.
- selfism — an emphasis on self; a selfish concentration on one's own interests or a philosophy based on them
- sensism — the theory that all ideas spring from the senses
- shi`ism — a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam that regards Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, as the legitimate successor of Muhammad, and disregards the three caliphs who succeeded him.
- sikhism — the religion and practices of the Sikhs.
- sivaism — the cult of Siva
- sizeism — discrimination on the basis of a person's size, esp against people considered to be overweight
- slavism — something that is native to, characteristic of, or associated with the Slavs or Slavic.
- slumism — the prevalence or increase of urban slums and blighted areas.
- sophism — a specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone.
- statism — the principle or policy of concentrating extensive economic, political, and related controls in the state at the cost of individual liberty.
- tachism — action painting (def 1).
- textism — a word or abbreviation typically used in a text message
- thomism — the theological and philosophical system of Thomas Aquinas.
- titoism — a form of communism associated with Tito, characterized by the assertion by a satellite state of its national interests in opposition to Soviet rule.
- toryism — the act or fact of being a Tory.
- tourism — the activity or practice of touring, especially for pleasure.
- tropism — an orientation of an organism to an external stimulus, as light, especially by growth rather than by movement.
- tsarism — dictatorship; despotic or autocratic government.
- turkism — the culture, beliefs, principles, practices, etc., of the Turks.
- tychism — the theory that chance is an objective reality at work in the universe, esp in evolutionary adaptations
- tzarism — dictatorship; despotic or autocratic government.
- unixism — (operating system, jargon) A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multitasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory Unix systems. Common Unixisms include: gratuitous use of "fork"; the assumption that certain undocumented but well-known features of Unix libraries such as "stdio" are supported elsewhere; reliance on obscure side-effects of system calls (use of "sleep" with a 0 argument to tell the scheduler that you're willing to give up your time-slice, for example); the assumption that freshly allocated memory is zeroed; and the assumption that fragmentation problems won't arise from never freeing memory. Compare vaxocentrism. See also New Jersey.
- utopism — utopianism.
- wholism — holism.
- yahwism — the worship of Yahweh or the religious system based on such worship.
- yobbism — hooliganism or aggressive behaviour
- zanyism — (archaic) clownishness; buffoonery.
- zionism — a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel.
- zoilism — (obsolete) nagging or carping criticism.