10-letter words that end in sm
- capitalism — Capitalism is an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are owned by private individuals and not by the state.
- castratism — The practice of prepubescently castrating male humans as to preserve their alto or soprano voices.
- catabolism — a metabolic process in which complex molecules are broken down into simple ones with the release of energy; destructive metabolism
- centralism — Centralism is a way of governing a country, or organizing something such as industry, education, or politics, which involves having one central group of people who give instructions to everyone else.
- chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
- chimaerism — the insertion of cells of a different genetic make-up into a fetus or embryo
- chloralism — a medical condition created by prolonged use of chloral hydrate
- chromatism — chromatic aberration
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- cicisbeism — the practice of admiring a married woman
- cinchonism — a condition resulting from an excessive dose of cinchona bark or its alkaloids, characterized chiefly by headache, ringing in the ears, and vomiting
- classicism — Classicism is a style of art practised especially in the 18th century in Europe. It has simple regular forms and the artist does not attempt to express strong emotions.
- cockneyism — a characteristic of speech or custom peculiar to cockneys
- conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
- concettism — the use of concetti in writing
- conclavism — a minority movement (and the beliefs of certain Traditionalist Catholics) that rejects the authority of the established pope and instead supports an alternative pope
- concretism — the practice of representing abstract concepts in concrete terms
- conformism — the tendency to adopt the attitudes, behaviour, dress, etc, of the group to which one belongs
- consortism — symbiosis
- convictism — the system of establishing a settlement, esp in Australia, and then transporting convicts to this settlement for confinement
- cottierism — (in Ireland) the system of cottier tenure
- deafmutism — unable to hear and speak.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- demagogism — The practices and principles of a demagogue; a pandering to the multitude for selfish ends.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
- dichromism — the state of being dichromic
- digitalism — the abnormal condition resulting from an overconsumption of digitalis.
- dimorphism — Zoology. the occurrence of two forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species. Compare sexual dimorphism.
- diothelism — the doctrine that Christ on earth had two wills, human and divine
- do-goodism — the actions or principles of a do-gooder.
- dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
- dynamitism — The work of dynamiters.
- dysphemism — the substitution of a harsh, disparaging, or unpleasant expression for a more neutral one.
- ebionitism — The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
- ecotourism — tourism to places having unspoiled natural resources, with minimal impact on the environment being a primary concern.
- empiricism — The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science, it developed in the 17th and 18th centuries, expounded in particular by John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
- englishism — an English custom, practice, etc
- enthusiasm — Intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
- epiphytism — the condition of being an epiphyte
- erraticism — the action or tendency to be erratic
- eternalism — (philosophy) The view that time resembles space and thus past and future events are in some sense coexistent.
- eudemonism — Alternative form of eudaemonism.
- euhemerism — the theory that gods arose out of the deification of historical heroes
- evangelism — The spreading of the Christian gospel by public preaching or personal witness.
- factualism — emphasis on, devotion to, or extensive reliance upon facts: the factualism of scientific experiment.
- fanaticism — fanatical character, spirit, or conduct.
- favoritism — the favoring of one person or group over others with equal claims; partiality: to show favoritism toward the youngest child.
- federalism — the federal principle of government.
- femininism — the state of quality of being feminine