8-letter words containing h, i, m, e
- ischemia — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- ischemic — local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction or local obstacles to the arterial flow.
- isocheim — a line on a map connecting points that have the same mean winter temperature.
- isotherm — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- jeremiah — a Major Prophet of the 6th and 7th centuries b.c.
- khamenei — Ayatollah Mohammed Ali, born 1939, chief Islamic leader of Iran since 1989.
- khomeini — Ayatollah Ruhollah [roo-hoh-luh;; Persian roo-haw-lah] /ruˈhoʊ lə;; Persian ˌru hɔˈlɑ/ (Show IPA), 1900?–89, Islamic leader of Iran 1979–89.
- kineshma — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NW of Nizhni Novgorod.
- lechayim — a toast used in drinking to a person's health or well-being.
- lewisham — a borough of Greater London, England.
- limewash — A mixture of slaked lime in water.
- lithemia — the presence of an excessive amount of uric acid in the blood.
- lithemic — relating to an excessive or uric acid in the blood
- machined — Simple past tense and past participle of machine.
- machiner — One who operates a machine.
- machines — Plural form of machine.
- macleish — Archibald, 1892–1982, U.S. poet and dramatist.
- maebashi — a city in the central part of Honshu, in central Japan.
- mageship — the role or office of a mage
- maghrebi — a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.
- mairehau — a small aromatic shrub Phebalium nudum, of New Zealand's North Island
- malevich — Kasimir [kaz-uh mir] /ˈkæz əmɪr/ (Show IPA), 1878–1935, Russian painter: founder of suprematism.
- manichee — Also, Manichee [man-i-kee] /ˈmæn ɪˌki/ (Show IPA). an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
- mannheim — Karl [kahrl;; German kahrl] /kɑrl;; German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1893–1947, German sociologist.
- marishes — a marsh.
- mateship — the state of being a mate.
- mathesis — learning or wisdom, esp of a mathematical nature
- mathilde — a female given name, French or German form of Matilda.
- mechanic — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
- mechitza — a screen in a synagogue separating men and women
- megalith — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
- megillah — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- mehitzah — a curtain or other divider that serves as a partition between the women's and the men's sections in Orthodox Jewish synagogues.
- melchior — one of the three Magi.
- melchite — a Christian in Egypt and Syria who accepted the definition of faith adopted by the Council of Chalcedon in a.d. 451.
- memphian — a native or inhabitant of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
- memphite — Also, Memphitic [mem-fit-ik] /mɛmˈfɪt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
- memsahib — (formerly, in India) a term of respect for a married European woman.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mephitic — offensive to the smell.
- mephitis — (in nontechnical use) a noxious or pestilential exhalation from the earth, as poison gas.
- merchild — a mythical creature with the upper body of a child and the lower body of a fish
- meredith — George, 1828–1909, English novelist and poet.
- messiahs — Plural form of messiah.
- methinks — It seems to me.
- methodic — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- methylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the methyl group.
- methysis — drunkenness
- michelet — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1798–1874, French historian.
- michelin — André (ɑ̃dre). 1853–1931, French industrialist; founder, with his brother Édouard Michelin (1859–1940), of the Michelin Tyre Company (1888): the first to use demountable pneumatic tyres on motor vehicles