8-letter words containing e, r, y, m
- mid-year — the middle of the year.
- midyears — Plural form of midyear.
- misentry — an incorrect or mistaken entry
- modernly — of or relating to present and recent time; not ancient or remote: modern city life.
- monetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- monstery — Resembling a monster.
- monterey — a city in W California, on Monterey Bay: the capital of California until 1847.
- mornynge — Obsolete spelling of morning.
- morosely — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
- motherly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a mother; maternal: motherly solicitude.
- mulberry — the edible, berrylike collective fruit of any tree of the genus Morus.
- mulierty — the state of being of legitimate birth.
- mulroney — (Martin) Brian, born 1939, Canadian political leader: prime minister 1984–93.
- musketry — Military. the technique of bringing fire from a group of rifle and automatic weapons to bear on specified targets.
- myrmeco- — ant
- niemeyer — Oscar, 1907–2012, Brazilian architect.
- noometry — a term used by the satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock to mean 'measurement of the mind'
- numeracy — to represent numbers by symbols.
- numerary — of or relating to a number or numbers.
- odometry — an instrument for measuring distance traveled, as by an automobile.
- overmany — an excess of people
- oximetry — the measuring of oxygen saturation of the blood by means of an oximeter.
- pamphrey — a cabbage
- plumbery — a plumber's workshop.
- polymery — the characteristic of having many parts
- przemysl — a city in SE Poland: occupied by the Russians 1915.
- pyoderma — any skin eruption characterized by pustules or the formation of pus
- pyrosome — a member of a genus, Pyrosoma, of colonial tunicates found in tropical open waters, the sole genus of the order Pyrosomida, which consists of brightly phosphorescent, translucent individuals united into a hollow tube closed at one end
- red army — the Soviet army.
- reemploy — to hire or engage the services of (a person or persons); provide employment for; have or keep in one's service: This factory employs thousands of people.
- remodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- remotely — far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away: the remote jungles of Brazil.
- retronym — a term coined in modification of an original term that was used alone (as acoustic guitar instead of guitar ) to distinguish it from a term referring to a later development (as electric guitar ). Other examples of retronyms are snail mail and analog watch .
- ribozyme — a segment of RNA that can act as a catalyst.
- room key — A room key is a key given to a guest in a hotel in order to open or lock the door of their room.
- rosemary — an evergreen shrub, Rosmarinus officinalis, of the mint family, native to the Mediterranean region, having leathery, narrow leaves and pale-blue, bell-shaped flowers, used as a seasoning and in perfumery and medicine: a traditional symbol of remembrance.
- samplery — the making of samplers
- seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- shimmery — shimmering; shining softly.
- slumbery — slumberous.
- smeltery — smelter (def 3).
- smithery — the work, craft, or workshop of a smith.
- smothery — stifling; close: a smothery atmosphere.
- smuggery — the condition or an instance of being smug; smugness
- smyrnean — of or relating to Smyrna, Turkey.
- somberly — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- spermary — an organ in which spermatozoa are generated; testis.
- stemmery — a factory or other place where tobacco leaves are stripped.
- summerly — summerlike; summery.
- sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.