8-letter words containing d, e, c, i
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- machined — Simple past tense and past participle of machine.
- maenadic — (Greek mythology) Of, or pertaining to the maenad.
- magicked — Simple past tense and past participle of magic.
- maledict — accursed.
- medallic — of or relating to medals.
- medecine — Misspelling of medicine.
- 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.
- medicide — a suicide facilitated by a physician. Compare assisted suicide.
- medicine — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the health professions by doctors, nurses, and others involved in allied health care services. A dictionary with authoritative spellings and definitions is a particularly crucial resource in medicine, where a misspelling or misunderstanding can have unfortunate consequences for people under care. Print dictionaries in this field may be sorted alphabetically or may be categorized according to medical specializations or by the various systems in the body, as the immune system and the respiratory system. The online Medical Dictionary on Dictionary.com allows alphabetical browsing in the combined electronic versions of more than one authoritative medical reference, insuring access to correct spellings, as well as immediate, direct access to a known search term typed into the search box on the site: A medical dictionary reveals that large numbers of medical terms are formed from the same Latin and Greek parts combined and recombined.
- mediocer — Obsolete form of mediocre.
- mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- melodica — A wind instrument with a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds, and a mouthpiece at one end.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- merchild — a mythical creature with the upper body of a child and the lower body of a fish
- methodic — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- middle c — the note indicated by the first leger line above the bass staff and the first below the treble staff.
- 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
- mimicked — to imitate or copy in action, speech, etc., often playfully or derisively.
- miscoded — to code mistakenly, as in data processing.
- miscreed — a false creed
- miticide — a substance or preparation for killing mites.
- mordecai — the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- nice and — pleasingly
- nickeled — Simple past tense and past participle of nickel.
- nickered — neigh.
- nucleoid — the central region in a prokaryotic cell, as a bacterium, that contains the chromosomes and that has no surrounding membrane.
- nuclides — Plural form of nuclide.
- occident — the Occident. the West; the countries of Europe and America. Western Hemisphere.
- occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- ochidore — a crab, variously the shore crab (Carcinus Maenas), spider crab (esp of the family Maioidea), or swimming crab (esp of the family Portunidae)
- omnicode — Thompson, 1956. Ran on IBM 650.
- outchide — to exceed in chiding
- pacified — to bring or restore to a state of peace or tranquillity; quiet; calm: to pacify an angry man.
- 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.
- pedantic — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pedicure — professional care and treatment of the feet, as removal of corns and trimming of toenails.
- pellucid — allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent.
- pendicle — a piece of land or property forming a subsidiary to an estate
- pentadic — of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a pentad
- peptidic — of or pertaining to peptides; of the nature of peptides