8-letter words containing a, c, i, e
- magicker — (fantasy) One who does magic; a sorcerer or magician.
- magnetic — of or relating to a magnet or magnetism.
- maieutic — of or relating to the method used by Socrates of eliciting knowledge in the mind of a person by interrogation and insistence on close and logical reasoning.
- majestic — characterized by or possessing majesty; of lofty dignity or imposing aspect; stately; grand: the majestic Alps.
- malecite — a member of a North American Indian people of southern and western New Brunswick and northern Maine.
- maledict — accursed.
- malefice — a wicked deed or enchantment
- malevich — Kasimir [kaz-uh mir] /ˈkæz əmɪr/ (Show IPA), 1878–1935, Russian painter: founder of suprematism.
- manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
- manichee — Also, Manichee [man-i-kee] /ˈmæn ɪˌki/ (Show IPA). an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
- manicule — (typography) the pointing hand symbol, used in printing, graphics or signs, to draw attention to or indicate something.
- manicure — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- matrices — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
- maverick — Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, especially an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.
- mechanic — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
- mechitza — a screen in a synagogue separating men and women
- medallic — of or relating to medals.
- medicaid — a U.S. government program, financed by federal, state, and local funds, of hospitalization and medical insurance for persons of all ages within certain income limits.
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- medicant — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
- medicare — (sometimes lowercase) a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65. Compare Medicaid.
- medicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- medicean — Catherine de', Catherine de Médicis.
- medician — (chiefly in science fiction) A physician, a medical doctor; a medic.
- megacity — a city having a population of one million or more.
- melodica — A wind instrument with a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds, and a mouthpiece at one end.
- menacing — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
- merrimac — a warship (originally the Union steamer Merrimack) that the Confederates converted into an ironclad, renamed the Virginia, and used against the Monitor in 1862 in the first battle between ironclads.
- mesaraic — (anatomy) mesenteric.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- metallic — of, relating to, or consisting of metal.
- metamict — of or denoting the amorphous state of a substance that has lost its crystalline structure as a result of the radioactivity of uranium or thorium within it
- metazoic — Of, or relating to the metazoa.
- meticais — Plural form of metical.
- metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- mexicali — a city in and the capital of Baja California, in NW Mexico, on the Mexican-U.S. border.
- mexicano — the Nahuatl language.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- micellar — Physical Chemistry. an electrically charged particle formed by an aggregate of molecules and occurring in certain colloidal electrolyte solutions, as those of soaps and detergents.
- midocean — The area in the middle of an ocean, far from shore.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- millcake — linseed cake.
- millrace — the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
- miracles — Plural form of miracle.
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misspace — to space out wrongly