8-letter words containing c, e, r, i, m
- cremains — A dead person's cremains are their remains after their body has been cremated.
- crimeful — criminal; filled with crime
- crimpers — to press into small regular folds; make wavy.
- crummier — Also, crumby. Slang. dirty and run-down; shabby; seedy: a crummy fleabag of a hotel. of little or no value; cheap; worthless: crummy furniture that falls apart after a month of use. wretchedly inadequate; miserable; lousy: They pay crummy salaries.
- crummies — a cow with crooked horns.
- decemvir — (in ancient Rome) a member of a board of ten magistrates, esp either of the two commissions established in 451 and 450 bc to revise the laws
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- dermatic — (dated) Of or relating to the skin; dermic.
- dimetric — (in technical drawing) denoting or incorporating a method of showing projection or perspective using a set of three geometric axes, of which two are of the same scale or dimension but the third is of another.
- dulcimer — Also called hammered dulcimer, hammer dulcimer. a trapezoidal zither with metal strings that are struck with light hammers.
- emictory — relating to emiction, the passing of urine
- empierce — to pierce or cut
- empirics — Plural form of empiric.
- endermic — (medicine) Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin.
- epimeric — Of or pertaining to an epimer.
- eremetic — Of or pertaining to eremites, reclusive, isolated.
- eremitic — Characteristic of a hermit.
- excimers — Plural form of excimer.
- exorcism — The expulsion or attempted expulsion of an evil spirit from a person or place.
- germanic — of or relating to the Teutons or their languages.
- graecism — the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
- grimaced — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- grimaces — Make a grimace.
- hermetic — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- hermitic — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- icecream — Alternative spelling of ice cream.
- icemaker — an appliance for making ice, especially ice cubes: Some refrigerators have built-in icemakers.
- impacter — a person or thing that impacts.
- incomber — Archaic form of encumber.
- incomers — Plural form of incomer.
- incoterm — Alternative case form of Incoterm.
- incumber — encumber.
- intercom — an intercommunication system.
- isocryme — a line on a map connecting points that have the same temperature during the coldest period of a year
- isomeric — of, relating to, or displaying isomerism.
- keramics — ceramics.
- limerick — a county in N Munster, in the SW Republic of Ireland. 037 sq. mi. (2686 sq. km).
- macarise — congratulate
- macarize — To congratulate.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- machiner — One who operates a machine.
- magicker — (fantasy) One who does magic; a sorcerer or magician.
- 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.
- mcintire — Samuel, 1757–1811, U.S. architect and woodcarver.
- mcintyre — James Francis Aloysius, 1886–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: cardinal from 1953; archbishop of Los Angeles 1948–70.
- 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.
- mediocer — Obsolete form of mediocre.