8-letter words containing a, c, m, e, s
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- meticais — Plural form of metical.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- miracles — Plural form of miracle.
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misspace — to space out wrongly
- misteach — to teach wrongly or badly.
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- molecast — the heap of earth excavated by a mole tunnelling underground
- moschate — having a musky smell.
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscadet — a white grape grown especially in the lower Loire Valley region of France.
- muscatel — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- mustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- 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.
- racemose — Botany. having the form of a raceme. arranged in racemes.
- racemous — racemose.
- sacellum — a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
- saeculum — an age in astronomy
- scambler — an unwelcome visitor who takes advantage of the hospitality of others, esp during mealtimes; sponger; opportunist
- scarmoge — a skirmish or minor conflict
- schemata — a diagram, plan, or scheme. Synonyms: outline, framework, model.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- schmatte — an old ragged garment; tattered article of clothing.
- sclerema — sclerosis, or hardening, especially of the skin.
- scleroma — a tumorlike hardening of tissue.
- scramble — to climb or move quickly using one's hands and feet, as down a rough incline.
- scramjet — a ramjet engine in which the flow through the combustor itself is supersonic.
- screamed — to utter a loud, sharp, piercing cry.
- screamer — a person or thing that screams.
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semiarch — a half arch.
- semicoma — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- spaceman — an astronaut.
- specmark — (benchmark) The average of a set of floating-point and integer SPEC benchmark results. While the old average SPECmark89 has been popular with the industry and the press, SPEC has intentionally *not* defined an average "SPECmark92" over all CPU benchmarks of the 1992 suites (CINT92 and CFP92), for the following reasons: With 6 integer (CINT92) and 14 floating-point (CFP92) benchmarks, the average would be biased too much toward floating-point. Customers' workloads are different, some integer-only, some floating-point intensive, some mixed. Current processors have developed their strengths in a more diverse way (some more emphasizing integer performance, some more floating-point performance) than in 1989. Some SPECmark results are available here. See also SPECint92, SPECfp92, SPECrate_int92, SPECrate_fp92.
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- symantec — (company) Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
- tachisme — action painting (def 1).