8-letter words that end in sm
- plateasm — the practice of talking with the mouth open too wide
- pleonasm — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- plumbism — lead poisoning (def 1b).
- polonism — a Polish characteristic or sense of identity
- populism — the political philosophy of the People's party.
- priapism — Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, especially due to disease.
- priggism — priggish character or ideas; priggishness.
- prosaism — prosaic character or style.
- psellism — Pathology. stuttering; stammering.
- psephism — (in ancient Athens) a proposition adopted by a majority vote in the public assembly
- psychism — the belief in a universal soul; the attributing of souls to inanimate objects or phenomena
- ptyalism — excessive secretion of saliva.
- pugilism — the art or practice of fighting with the fists; boxing.
- puppyism — impudence
- puseyism — Tractarianism.
- pygmyism — the state of being a pygmy
- quietism — a form of religious mysticism taught by Molinos, a Spanish priest, in the latter part of the 17th century, requiring extinction of the will, withdrawal from worldly interests, and passive meditation on God and divine things; Molinism.
- racemism — (of a compound) the state of being optically inactive and separable into two other substances of the same chemical composition as the original substance, one of which is dextrorotatory and the other levorotatory, as racemic acid.
- regalism — the principle that royalty have the highest power, esp when referring to church affairs
- rightism — conservatism, especially in politics.
- rigorism — extreme strictness.
- robotism — a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.
- romanism — Roman Catholicism.
- rowdyism — rough, disorderly behavior.
- royalism — the principles of royal government; monarchism
- ruralism — of, relating to, or characteristic of the country, country life, or country people; rustic: rural tranquillity.
- saintism — the practices and principles of the Puritans
- sapphism — lesbianism.
- satanism — the worship of Satan or the powers of evil.
- savagism — barbarism; savagery.
- saxonism — an English word or idiom of Anglo-Saxon rather than foreign, as Latin or French, origin.
- scillism — poisoning by squill, characterized by vomiting, slow pulse, cardiac arrhythmia, and ventricular fibrillation.
- sciolism — superficial knowledge.
- scribism — the beliefs and actions of Jewish scribes during Christ's life
- seismism — the natural activity or group of phenomena associated with earthquakes.
- semitism — Semitic characteristics, especially the ways, ideas, influence, etc., of the Jewish people.
- shaktism — the worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva.
- simplism — exaggerated simplicity, as in concentrating on a single aspect or factor of a problem or situation while disregarding others; oversimplification: The senator is given to simplism in dealing with international issues.
- sinapism — mustard plaster.
- sinicism — something characteristic of or peculiar to the Chinese; a Chinese method, custom, or usage.
- snobbism — condescending, patronizing, or socially exclusive; snobbish.
- solarism — the interpretation of myths by reference to the sun, especially such interpretation carried to an extreme.
- solecism — a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable and they was.
- solidism — the belief that diseases spring from damage to solid parts of the body
- somatism — a psychiatrist who considers all mental illnesses to have physical origins.
- stoicism — a systematic philosophy, dating from around 300 b.c., that held the principles of logical thought to reflect a cosmic reason instantiated in nature.
- stuckism — a British art movement, founded in 1999 by Billy Childish (born 1959) and Charles Thomson (born 1953) to advance new figurative painting (as opposed to conceptual art)
- swingism — former resistance to the use of agricultural machines
- sybotism — the keeping of swine
- tantrism — (italics) Hinduism. any of several books of esoteric doctrine regarding rituals, disciplines, meditation, etc., composed in the form of dialogues between Shiva and his Shakti; Agama.