8-letter words containing d, i, m, e, t
- mitnaged — an orthodox opponent of Chassidism
- mittened — Wearing a mitten, or mittens.
- mode bit — A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the Program Status Word of the IBM 360. Another was the bit on a PDP-12 that controlled whether it ran the PDP-8 or the LINC instruction set.
- modelist — a person who makes models, as of airplanes.
- moodiest — given to gloomy, depressed, or sullen moods; ill-humored.
- mortised — a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- motioned — the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
- muddiest — Superlative form of muddy.
- multiped — having many feet.
- mustelid — any of numerous carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, comprising the weasels, martens, skunks, badgers, and otters.
- mutinied — revolt or rebellion against constituted authority, especially by sailors against their officers.
- old-time — belonging to or characteristic of old or former times, methods, ideas, etc.: old-time sailing ships; an old-time piano player.
- oldtimer — An elderly person.
- pediment — (in classical architecture) a low gable, typically triangular with a horizontal cornice and raking cornices, surmounting a colonnade, an end wall, or a major division of a façade.
- piedmont — a plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, including parts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
- podetium — (in certain lichens) a stalk bearing an apothecium.
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- re-admit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- red mist — a feeling of extreme anger that clouds one's judgment temporarily
- remitted — to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
- rudiment — Usually, rudiments. the elements or first principles of a subject: the rudiments of grammar. a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something: the rudiments of a plan.
- sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- seedtime — the season for sowing seed.
- sodomite — an inhabitant of Sodom.
- summited — the highest point or part, as of a hill, a line of travel, or any object; top; apex.
- tameside — a unitary authority of NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 213 400 (2003 est). Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
- the maid — Joan of Arc
- tidemark — the point that something or someone has reached, receded below, or risen above: He has reached the tidemark of his prosperity.
- tidemill — a watermill powered by the force of the tide
- tidesman — a Customs official at a port
- timbered — made of or furnished with timber.
- timecard — a card for recording the time at which an employee arrives at and departs from a job.
- trim die — a die for trimming flash from a casting, forging, or stamping.