8-letter words containing a, c, i, e
- misteach — to teach wrongly or badly.
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- mixtecan — a branch of a family of American Indian languages spoken in central Mexico
- mordecai — the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- mucilage — any of various, usually liquid, preparations of gum, glue, or the like, used as an adhesive.
- muricate — covered with short, sharp points.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- mycelial — Of or pertaining to the mycelium.
- narceine — a narcotic alkaloid, C 2 3 H 2 7 NO 8 , occurring in opium and acting as a mild relaxant on smooth muscle.
- navicert — A form of passport permitting a neutral ship to traverse a blockade in wartime.
- nearctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising temperate Greenland and arctic North America, sometimes including high mountainous regions of the northern Temperate Zone.
- neorican — a Puerto Rican living in New York or one who has lived in New York and returned to Puerto Rico.
- neumatic — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- nice and — pleasingly
- nickname — a name added to or substituted for the proper name of a person, place, etc., as in affection, ridicule, or familiarity: He has always loathed his nickname of “Whizzer.”.
- noetical — Alternative form of noetic.
- nuisance — an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice, etc.: a monthly meeting that was more nuisance than pleasure.
- oceanian — the islands of the central and S Pacific, including Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and traditionally Australasia. About 3,450,000 sq. mi. (8,935,500 sq. km).
- oceanite — A variety of picrite that is chiefly composed of olivine phenocrysts.
- oil cake — a cake or mass of linseed, cottonseed, soybean, or the like, from which the oil has been extracted or expressed, used as food for livestock.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- oscitate — To gape; to yawn.
- pacified — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- pacifier — a person or thing that pacifies.
- pack ice — a large area of floating ice formed over a period of many years and consisting of pieces of ice driven together by wind, current, etc.
- palencia — a city in Castilla y León, N Spain.
- pandemic — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
- panicked — a sudden overwhelming fear, with or without cause, that produces hysterical or irrational behavior, and that often spreads quickly through a group of persons or animals.
- panicles — a compound raceme.
- pannicle — a thin layer of body tissue
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- pathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- patience — a female given name.
- patrices — a mold of a Linotype for casting right-reading type for use in dry offset.
- peacenik — an activist or demonstrator who opposes war and military intervention; pacifist.
- peaching — to inform against an accomplice or associate.
- pectinal — of or resembling a comb
- peculiar — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pedantic — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pelasgic — Pelasgian.
- pelmatic — of or relating to the sole of the foot
- pemmican — dried meat pounded into a powder and mixed with hot fat and dried fruits or berries, pressed into a loaf or into small cakes, originally prepared by North American Indians.
- pentadic — of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pentad
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- pericarp — the walls of a ripened ovary or fruit, sometimes consisting of three layers, the epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp.
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
- petechia — a minute, round, nonraised hemorrhage in the skin or in a mucous or serous membrane.
- phacelia — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Phacelia, of the waterleaf family, chiefly of the western U.S. and Mexico, having clusters of violet, blue, or white flowers.