8-letter words containing e, a, r, t
- metacard — A commercial human interface and hypertext system for Unix and the X Window System, similar to Hypercard.
- metairie — an area of land held under the metayage system
- metaller — (music, informal) One who listens to metal music.
- metamere — a somite.
- metamers — a compound exhibiting metamerism with one or more other compounds.
- metanira — queen of Eleusis, who took Demeter in to nurse her child.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- meterage — the practice of measuring; measurement.
- metrazol — pentylenetetrazol
- metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- migrated — to go from one country, region, or place to another. Synonyms: move, resettle, relocate. Antonyms: remain.
- migrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of migrate.
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.
- misalter — to alter wrongly
- misrated — Rated incorrectly.
- mistaker — One who mistakes.
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- mistreat — to treat badly or abusively.
- moderate — kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
- moderato — moderate; in moderate time.
- mole rat — any burrowing molelike African rodent of the family Bathyergidae
- monetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- monstera — any of various tropical American climbing plants belonging to the genus Monstera, of the arum family, especially M. deliciosa, having split or perforated leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- montreal — a seaport in S Quebec, in E Canada, on an island (Montreal Island) in the St. Lawrence.
- mortared — a mixture of lime or cement or a combination of both with sand and water, used as a bonding agent between bricks, stones, etc.
- mortgage — the rights conferred by it, or the state of the property conveyed.
- mortsafe — a heavy iron cage or grille placed over the grave of a newly deceased person in order to deter body snatchers
- muricate — covered with short, sharp points.
- naartjie — (South Africa) Citrus reticulata, (mandarin, satsuma, tangerine); a soft, loose-skinned tangerine.
- nanterre — a department in N France. 63 sq. mi. (163 sq. km). Capital: Nanterre.
- narrated — Simple past tense and past participle of narrate.
- narratee — Someone to whom a story is narrated.
- narrater — a person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc.
- narrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of narrate.
- nartjies — Plural form of nartjie.
- nattered — Simple past tense and past participle of natter.
- navicert — A form of passport permitting a neutral ship to traverse a blockade in wartime.
- nazareth — a town in N Israel: the childhood home of Jesus.
- nazarite — (among the ancient Hebrews) a person who had taken certain strict religious vows, usually for a limited period.
- nazirite — (among the ancient Hebrews) a person who had taken certain strict religious vows, usually for a limited period.
- 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.
- neatherd — cowherd.
- nectared — Imbued or abounding with nectar.
- negators — Plural form of negator.
- negatory — marked by negation; denying; negative.
- negatron — Also called negatron. Physics, Chemistry. an elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of matter, having a negative charge of 1.602 × 10 −19 coulombs, a mass of 9.108 × 10 −31 kilograms, and spin of ½, and existing independently or as the component outside the nucleus of an atom.
- neustria — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- neutrals — Plural form of neutral.