| Scrabble Word | Definition |
| anticlericalism21 | The opposition to political influence of clerics. |
| anticolonialism19 | (politics) The movement that opposes colonialism. |
| antimaterialism19 | (philosophy) Any belief system that opposes philosophical materialism. |
| antirationalism17 | (philosophy) The philosophical position that opposes rationalism. |
| confessionalism22 | (religion) A belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching. |
| conventionalism22 | (uncountable) Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior |
| experimentalism28 | An experimental practice or tendency, especially in the arts |
| governmentalism23 | (sociology) Synonym of governmentality |
| hypercatabolism29 | An increased rate of catabolism. |
| hypermetabolism29 | (biochemistry) The physiological state of increased metabolic activity, typically occurring after significant damage to the body |
| instrumentalism19 | (philosophy) In the philosophy of science, the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena. |
| intellectualism19 | The use or development of the intellect. |
| multilateralism19 | Unbiased trade between nations, in contrast to bilateralism. |
| multilingualism20 | the condition of being multilingual; the ability to speak multiple languages |
| photojournalism29 | A form of journalism in which a story is told primarily through photographs and other images |
| professionalism22 | The status, methods, character or standards expected of a professional or of a professional organization, such as reliability, discretion, evenhandedness, and fair play. |
| semicolonialism21 | |
| supernaturalism19 | The quality or condition of being supernatural. |
| thromboembolism28 | (medicine) An embolism caused by a blood clot carried in the bloodstream from its place of origin. |
| ultraliberalism19 | ultraliberal beliefs generally |
| Scrabble Word | Definition |
| antialcoholism21 | Opposition to alcoholism. |
| anticapitalism20 | (politics) Opposition to capitalism. |
| antiliberalism18 | (politics) Antiliberal beliefs and practices. |
| antiradicalism19 | Opposition to radical ideologies. |
| bidialectalism21 | The use of two dialects of a language. |
| bioregionalism19 | The belief that naturally-defined regions (bioregions or ecoregions) should be the basis of political or cultural identity |
| exceptionalism27 | The state of being special, exceptional or unique. |
| existentialism23 | (philosophy, not countable) A twentieth-century philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices. |
| fundamentalism22 | (religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts. |
| heterothallism22 | (botany) The condition of being heterothallic |
| holometabolism23 | (entomology) The complete metamorphosis of an insect |
| incrementalism20 | Any method of achieving a goal by means of a series of gradual increments, or small steps. |
| multiracialism20 | The promotion of a diverse society composed of various races with different cultural backgrounds. |
| neocolonialism18 | The control or domination by a powerful country over weaker ones (especially former colonies) by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance. |
| operationalism18 | (sciences) A philosophy that attempts to define all scientific concepts in terms of specified operations or procedures of observation and measurement. |
| parajournalism25 | The deceptive use of journalistic style and presentation to publish falsehoods. |
| sacramentalism20 | (theology) The belief that observance of the sacraments is necessary for salvation, or belief in their efficacy. |
| sensationalism16 | The use of sensational subject matter, style or methods, or the sensational subject matter itself; behavior, published materials, or broadcasts that are intentionally controversial, exaggerated, lurid, loud, or attention-grabbing. Especially applied to news media in a pejorative sense that they are reporting in a manner to gain audience or notoriety but at the expense of accuracy and professionalism. |
| sentimentalism18 | A liking for sentimental things |
| territorialism16 | Territoriality: the assertion of rights to a territory |
| Scrabble Word | Definition |
| antiritualism15 | Opposition to ritualism. |
| bibliophilism24 | A love of books. |
| biculturalism19 | The state or quality of being bicultural |
| ceremonialism19 | A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism. |
| colloquialism26 | A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression. |
| commercialism23 | The practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business. |
| conceptualism21 | The art movement towards conceptual art. |
| credentialism18 | Excessive emphasis on the importance of educational, academic, legal, or regulatory qualifications. |
| ecumenicalism21 | The belief that there should be better understanding and closer co-operation between different denominations in the Christian Church. |
| functionalism20 | (architecture) A doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction |
| immaterialism19 | (philosophy) The metaphysical denial of the existence of the material world |
| individualism20 | The tendency for a person to act without reference to others, particularly in matters of style, fashion or mode of thought. |
| industrialism16 | The socio-economic system based upon the industrial production of manufactured goods, rather than on agriculture. |
| irrationalism15 | A philosophical movement formed as a cultural reaction against positivism in the early 20th century. |
| millennialism17 | millenarianism |
| monometallism19 | The use of only one metal (such as gold or silver) in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of monetary value. |
| neoliberalism17 | A political ideology or ideological trend based on neoclassical economics that espouses economic liberalism, favouring trade liberalisation, financial deregulation, a small government, privatisation and liberalisation of government businesses, passive antitrust enforcement, accepting greater economic inequality and disfavouring unionisation. |
| phenomenalism22 | (philosophy) The doctrine that physical objects exist only as perceptual phenomena or sensory stimuli |
| provincialism22 | The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners. |
| sacerdotalism18 | The spirit of the priesthood; devotion to priestly interests; priestcraft. |
| Scrabble Word | Definition |
| aeroembolism18 | An embolism that results from the introduction, (or the formation under reduced pressure) of air bubbles in the blood. |
| anecdotalism17 | A predisposition to relate anecdotes. |
| bicameralism20 | (government) The practice of dividing legislative bodies into two chambers with complementary powers and limitations designed to provide checks and balances against one another. |
| bilateralism16 | Having a matching arrangement on each of two sides. |
| bilingualism17 | The condition of being bilingual; the ability to speak two languages. |
| commensalism20 | (ecology) A sharing of the same environment by two organisms where one species benefits and the other is unaffected. An example is barnacles on whales. |
| connubialism18 | (formal) Marriage; married life. |
| emotionalism16 | An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics. [from 19th c.] |
| essentialism14 | (philosophy) The view that objects have properties that are essential to them. |
| factionalism19 | The splitting of a group into factions. |
| fraternalism17 | fraternal policies or practices; brotherliness |
| homothallism22 | The quality of being homothallic |
| hyperrealism22 | A style in art that attempts to reproduce highly realistic graphic representations |
| illiberalism16 | The principle, state or quality of being illiberal. |
| mercantilism18 | (historical, economics) The theory that a nation must always have a positive balance of trade, in the manner that a merchant would operate a shop. Typically this model presupposes protectionism. |
| necrophilism21 | (rare) Necrophilia. |
| parochialism21 | The quality or state of being parochial; especially: selfish pettiness or narrowness (as of interests, opinions, or views). |
| pictorialism18 | (photography) A school of artistic photography that emphasized using photography to mimic certain styles of contemporary painting, that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries |
| sectionalism16 | Promoting the good of one division, department or subgroup over that of the whole. |
| somnambulism20 | sleepwalking |
| Scrabble Word | Definition |
| antirealism13 | (philosophy) Any position involving denial of the objective reality of certain entities, or denial that certain general statements are objectively either true or false. |
| bimetallism17 | (economics) The use of a monetary standard based upon two different metals, traditionally gold and silver usually in a fixed ratio of values. |
| biracialism17 | A situation where two races of people are segregated. |
| cannibalism17 | The act of eating another of one's own species. |
| clericalism17 | political or secular power invested in members of the clergy. |
| colonialism15 | The policy of a country seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of economic dominance. |
| communalism19 | The communal ownership of property. |
| externalism20 | Excessive regard to outward acts or appearances, especially in religion. |
| funambulism20 | The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope. |
| gutturalism14 | The quality of being guttural. |
| imperialism17 | The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations. |
| infantilism16 | An emotional dependency on being treated as an infant. |
| manorialism15 | A political, economic and social system in medieval and early modern Europe; originally a form of serfdom but later a looser system in which land was administered via the local manor. |
| materialism15 | Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns. |
| medievalism19 | The state of being medieval. |
| nationalism13 | Patriotism; the idea of supporting one's country, people or culture. |
| officialism21 | The rigid, perfunctory and literal adherence to official duties and regulations |
| orientalism13 | In the figurative arts, the tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East. |
| parallelism15 | The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character. |
| pastoralism15 | The state of being pastoral. |
| Scrabble Word | Definition |
| alcoholism17 | A chronic disease caused by compulsive and uncontrollable consumption of alcoholic beverages, leading to addiction and deterioration in health and social functioning. |
| bipedalism17 | The habit of standing and walking on two feet; the state of being bipedal |
| capitalism16 | (politics) A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources or capital. |
| catabolism16 | (biochemistry) Destructive metabolism, usually including the release of energy and breakdown of materials. |
| centralism14 | A system that centralizes, especially an administration of some kind. |
| evangelism16 | Sharing news of something in order to convince someone to join or otherwise accept it. |
| factualism17 | A form of evaluation that emphasizes the usage of facts, falsifiability, logic and reason. |
| federalism16 | A system of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority. |
| genteelism13 | Genteel behaviour. |
| gradualism14 | (biology) The belief that evolution proceeds at a steady pace, without the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next. |
| immobilism18 | political or economic inactivity, often a result of ultraconservative policies |
| immoralism16 | A philosophy that does not accept moral principles. |
| initialism12 | (linguistics) A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter. |
| journalism19 | The activity or profession of being a journalist. |
| liberalism14 | The quality of being liberal. |
| literalism12 | Literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating. |
| metabolism16 | (physiology) The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life. |
| minimalism16 | (art) A style of art that emphasises extreme simplicity of form. |
| naturalism12 | A state of nature; conformity to nature. |
| neorealism12 | (art) A movement in art, literature and (especially in Italy) cinema, shortly after the Second World War, that concentrated on real life. |
| Scrabble Word | Definition |
| amoralism13 | (philosophy) Doctrine which advocates ignoring moral issues and norms. |
| anabolism13 | The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from catabolism. |
| animalism13 | The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality. |
| atonalism11 | The school of atonal musical composition |
| cabbalism17 | |
| diabolism14 | (uncountable) Worship of the devil; Satanism |
| feudalism15 | A social system based on personal ownership of resources and personal fealty between a suzerain (lord) and a vassal (subject). Defining characteristics are direct ownership of resources, personal loyalty, and a hierarchical social structure reinforced by religion. |
| formalism16 | Strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc. |
| formulism16 | An over-reliance on, or adherence to formulae |
| globalism14 | An ideology based on the belief that people, goods and information ought to be able to cross national borders unfettered. |
| herbalism16 | The use or study of medicinal herbs |
| kabbalism19 | the study of the Kabbalah |
| mentalism13 | The doctrine that physical reality exists only because of the mind's awareness. |
| mongolism14 | (now offensive) Down syndrome |
| mutualism13 | (ecology) Any interaction between two species that benefits both; typically involves the exchange of substances or services. |
| pluralism13 | The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number. |
| puerilism13 | (psychology, psychiatry) Childlike behavior by an adult, especially as indicating a mental disorder. |
| racialism13 | (Britain, dated) Tribalism, nationalism. |
| ritualism11 | The belief that it is necessary for rites or repeated sets of actions to be carried out. |
| serialism11 | (music) Music, especially from the 20th century, in which themes are based on a definite order of notes of an equal-tempered scale. |
| Scrabble Word | Definition |
| allelism10 | (genetics) The existence of two or more alleles of a gene |
| botulism12 | (pathology) Poisoning caused by the toxin from Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic bacterium that grows in improperly prepared food. |
| cabalism14 | The activities of a cabal; secret plotting. |
| embolism14 | (pathology) An obstruction or occlusion of an artery by an embolus, that is by a blood clot, air bubble or other matter that has been transported by the blood stream. |
| familism15 | (religion, now historical) The beliefs or practice of the Family of Love religious sect, active in sixteenth century England. [from 16th c.] |
| fatalism13 | The doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable necessity, or determined in advance in such a way that human beings cannot change them. |
| finalism13 | teleology |
| idealism11 | The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life. |
| kabalism16 | |
| legalism11 | A philosophy of focusing on the text of written law to the exclusion of the intent of law, elevating strict adherence to law over justice, mercy, grace and common sense. |
| localism12 | (countable, linguistics) a linguistic feature that is unique to a locality |
| loyalism13 | The property of being a loyalist. |
| moralism12 | (uncountable, often derogatory) The act or practice of moralizing (making moral reflections or judging the morality of others). |
| nasalism10 | A nasal sound in speech. |
| nihilism13 | (usually uncountable) The view that all endeavours are devoid of objective meaning. |
| phallism15 | The worship of the phallus (penis) as a symbol of male generative power. |
| populism14 | (philosophy) A political doctrine or philosophy that proposes that the rights and powers of ordinary people are exploited by a privileged elite, and supports their struggle to overcome this. |
| ptyalism15 | sialorrhea |
| pugilism13 | Fighting with fists. [from 1791] |
| royalism13 | Impassioned allegiance to or advocacy of the establishment, maintenance, and/or interests of a particular king, royal house, or kingly dynasty; sometimes extended to the same of a non-royal (i.e., grand ducal, imperial, or other) family or sovereign; often contrasted with monarchism. |