8-letter words containing c, e, u, m
- mccauley — Mary Ludwig Hays, real name of Molly Pitcher.
- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- mcteague — a novel (1899) by Frank Norris.
- meconium — the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.
- megabuck — one million dollars.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- merciful — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mercosur — a trading block composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; superseded in 2008 by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur or Unasul), by uniting with the Andean Community
- mercouri — Melina (məˈliːnə). 1925–94, Greek actress and politician: her films include Never on Sunday (1960); minister of culture (1981–85 and 1993–94)
- mercuric — of or containing mercury, especially in the bivalent state.
- metuchen — a city in NE New Jersey.
- molecule — Chemistry, Physics. the smallest physical unit of an element or compound, consisting of one or more like atoms in an element and two or more different atoms in a compound.
- monocule — (zoology) A small crustacean with one median eye.
- muchness — Archaic. greatness, as in quantity, measure, or degree.
- mucilage — any of various, usually liquid, preparations of gum, glue, or the like, used as an adhesive.
- muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
- muckrake — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muculent — Slimy; moist and moderately viscous.
- mulhacen — a mountain in S Spain: the highest peak in Spain. 11,411 feet (3478 meters).
- munchies — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.
- muricate — covered with short, sharp points.
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscadet — a white grape grown especially in the lower Loire Valley region of France.
- muscatel — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- musicker — a musician
- mustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- mycelium — the mass of hyphae that form the vegetative part of a fungus.
- 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.
- new chum — a recent British immigrant
- numeracy — to represent numbers by symbols.
- numerics — The field of numerically-controlled engineering.
- ocmulgee — a river in NW Georgia, flowing SE to join the Oconee River and form the Altamaha River. 255 miles (410 km) long.
- outcomes — Plural form of outcome.
- overmuch — If something happens overmuch, it happens too much or very much.
- packmule — a mule used to carry goods
- peculium — property that a father or master allowed his child or slave to hold as his own
- plectrum — a small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
- plumcake — a cake with raisins in it
- pumicate — to pound or rub smooth with pumice
- pumicite — a fine-grained pumice-like volcanic ash
- racemous — racemose.
- sacellum — a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
- saeculum — an age in astronomy
- schellum — a person or an animal that is a rascal or villain
- scrumple — to crumple or crush (something, esp a piece of paper) or (esp of a piece of paper) to become crumpled or crushed
- scumless — without scum
- secundum — according to
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- spectrum — ZX Spectrum