12-letter words that end in sm
- shamateurism — a sports term referring to a state in which an athlete is classified as an amateur but acts like a professional, usually by raising money
- situationism — the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.
- somnambulism — sleepwalking.
- somniloquism — sleep-talking
- spiritualism — the belief or doctrine that the spirits of the dead, surviving after the mortal life, can and do communicate with the living, especially through a person (a medium) particularly susceptible to their influence.
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- standpattism — belief in or the practice of resisting or refusing to accept change, especially in politics.
- stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
- strychninism — a condition induced by an overdose or by excessive use of strychnine.
- subjectivism — Epistemology. the doctrine that all knowledge is limited to experiences by the self, and that transcendent knowledge is impossible.
- superrealism — photorealism.
- sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- symmetallism — the use of an alloy of two or more metals in fixed relative value as the standard of value and currency
- syndactylism — having certain digits joined together.
- synecdochism — the use of synecdoche
- syntheticism — a synthetic nature or approach
- theocentrism — having God as the focal point of thoughts, interests, and feelings: theocentric philosophy.
- traducianism — the doctrine that the human soul is propagated along with the body. Compare creationism (def 3).
- transformism — the doctrine of gradual transformation of one species into another by descent with modification through many generations.
- transvestism — the practice, especially of men, of wearing clothing usually associated with the opposite sex for psychological gratification.
- trinomialism — the trinomial system of naming
- triumphalism — triumphant spirit or character.
- troglodytism — the condition of being a troglodyte
- ultrarealism — extreme or intense realism
- uncle tomism — a policy of relationship between whites and blacks involving a benevolent but patronizing attitude on the part of the whites and a willingly submissive attitude on the part of the blacks.
- unitarianism — the beliefs, principles, and practices of Unitarians. Compare Unitarian Universalism.
- universalism — universal character; universality.
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- volunteerism — voluntarism (def 2).
- voluntourism — tourism in which travellers do voluntary work to help communities or the environment in the places they are visiting
- zen buddhism — Zen.