8-letter words containing h, i, s, e
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mephitis — (in nontechnical use) a noxious or pestilential exhalation from the earth, as poison gas.
- messiahs — Plural form of messiah.
- methinks — It seems to me.
- methysis — drunkenness
- mightest — (archaic) second-person singular simple past of may.
- mighties — Plural form of mighty.
- milkshed — a region producing milk for a specific community: the St. Louis milkshed.
- mischief — conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
- misheard — to hear incorrectly or imperfectly: to mishear a remark.
- mishears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mishear.
- misshape — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- misteach — to teach wrongly or badly.
- misthrew — Simple past form of misthrow.
- mitscher — Marc Andrew, 1887–1947, U.S. naval officer and aviator.
- munchies — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.
- murphies — Plural form of murphy.
- mushiest — resembling mush; pulpy.
- nebbishy — a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- nighness — The quality or state of being nigh, or near.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nighties — Plural form of nightie.
- nosherei — food for snacking or noshing.
- novelish — (esp of a name or a person) characteristic of a novel; having qualities like those of a character or scene in a novel; fanciful; romantic
- obeahism — the custom of or faith in the form of witchcraft known as obeah
- ochlesis — any disease caused by overcrowding.
- orchesis — the art of dance
- orchises — Plural form of orchis.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- overfish — to fish (an area) excessively; to exhaust the supply of usable fish in (certain waters): Scientists are concerned that fishing boats may overfish our coastal waters.
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parishen — a parishioner
- pasiphae — Classical Mythology. the wife of Minos, mother of Ariadne, and mother of the Minotaur by the Cretan bull.
- pasithea — one of the Graces.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- peatship — the state of being a peat
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perisher — mischievous person
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- phase in — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phase-in — an act or instance of phasing in; gradual introduction or implementation.
- pheidias — Phidias
- pheresis — apheresis, especially plasmapheresis.
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- phylesis — evolutionary events that modify an organism or group of organisms without leading to the formation of a new species