11-letter words that end in sm
- ecofeminism — A philosophical and political movement that combines ecological concerns with feminist ones, regarding both as resulting from male domination of society.
- ecumenicism — ecumenicalism; ecumenism.
- egocentrism — The constant following of one's egotistical desires to an extreme.
- emperialism — Misspelling of imperialism.
- epimorphism — (category theory) A morphism p such that for any other pair of morphisms f and g, if f \\circ p = g \\circ p, then f = g.
- erastianism — the theory that the state should have authority over the church in ecclesiastical matters
- esotericism — The tendency to promote or desire the esoteric.
- estheticism — aestheticism
- eudaemonism — A system of ethics that bases moral value on the likelihood that good actions will produce happiness.
- europeanism — belief in or advocacy of political unification and economic integration among European nations
- exclusivism — The action or policy of excluding a person or group from a place, group, or privilege.
- exotericism — The quality of being widely known or exoteric.
- externalism — Excessive regard for outward form in religion.
- fallibilism — the philosophical doctrine that knowledge is hypothetical rather than certain
- favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
- fissiparism — (biology) reproduction by spontaneous fission.
- fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
- freneticism — the state or quality of being frenetic
- freudianism — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- frotteurism — (sexuality) The act of rubbing one’s genitalia against another’s person, usually that of a stranger. Must be non-consensual and is considered a psychiatric condition as well as a criminal offense in most places. (If consensual, it is known as frottage).
- funambulism — The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
- gallicanism — the movement or body of doctrines, chiefly associated with the Gallican church, advocating the restriction of papal authority in certain matters.
- gamotropism — the tendency of gametes to attract each other
- gangsterism — the methods or behavior of gangsters.
- geocentrism — A belief that Earth is the center of the universe and does not move.
- gonochorism — (biology) The situation in which the individuals of a species are of one of two distinct sexes, and retain that sexuality throughout their lives.
- gourmandism — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- gutturalism — The quality of being guttural.
- hegelianism — the philosophy of Hegel and his followers, characterized by the use of the Hegelian dialectic.
- hemihedrism — (crystallography) hemihedral crystallization.
- hermeticism — the body of ideas set forth in Hermetic writings.
- heteroecism — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- hibernicism — an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
- hierarchism — hierarchical principles, rule, or influence.
- highbrowism — Highbrow attitudes and policies generally.
- hispanicism — an idiom peculiar to Spanish.
- historicism — a theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency.
- histrionism — Histrionic behaviour.
- holophytism — the property of being holophytic
- hooliganism — a ruffian or hoodlum.
- hospitalism — hospital conditions having an adverse effect on patients.
- hucksterism — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- hylopathism — the theory that understands matter as conscious or receptive to feeling
- hyperbolism — the use of hyperbole.
- hypocrinism — an abnormal condition caused by insufficient secretion from a gland, especially an endocrine gland.
- ignorantism — The support or promotion of ignorance.
- ignosticism — The philosophical position that beliefs regarding the existence or non-existence of God (capitalized) all assume too much, especially because there is not just one universal definition of the word
- illusionism — a technique of using pictorial methods in order to deceive the eye. Compare trompe l'oeil.
- immanentism — the belief that the Deity indwells and operates directly within the universe or nature.