8-letter words containing i, m, a, o
- microcar — A very small car.
- micropia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- microtia — A congenital deformity where the pinna (external ear) is underdeveloped.
- midocean — The area in the middle of an ocean, far from shore.
- migrator — (computing) A computer program that helps move objects between locations, e.g. from a legacy system to a new technology.
- miltonia — any of various epiphytic tropical American orchids of the genus Miltonia, having sprays of showy, flat, variously colored flowers.
- minamoto — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns from 1192 to 1333.
- minatory — menacing; threatening.
- mindanao — the second largest island of the Philippines, in the S part of the group. 36,537 sq. mi. (94,631 sq. km).
- miniator — to illuminate (a manuscript) in red; rubricate.
- minneola — a juicy, pear-shaped variety of tangelo.
- minorcan — of or relating to Minorca.
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- miradors — Plural form of mirador.
- misallot — to allot wrongly
- misatone — to atone wrongly or improperly
- misogamy — hatred of marriage.
- missoula — a city in W Montana.
- mistcoat — (in house painting or interior decoration) a coat of thinner, sometimes pigmented, applied to a finish coat of paint to increase its luster.
- moatlike — Resembling a moat or some aspect of one.
- mocassin — Alternative spelling of moccasin.
- moccasin — a heelless shoe made entirely of soft leather, as deerskin, with the sole brought up and attached to a piece of u -shaped leather on top of the foot, worn originally by the American Indians.
- mocktail — a nonalcoholic cocktail.
- modalise — Alternative spelling of modalize.
- modalism — a Christian doctrine that states that the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are one being exhibited in three different ways rather than three separate entities
- modalist — an adherent of modalism
- modality — the quality or state of being modal.
- modiolar — relating to the modiolus
- molality — the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent.
- molarity — the number of moles of solute per liter of solution.
- moldavia — a region in NE Romania: formerly a principality that united with Wallachia to form Romania. Capital: Jassy.
- monadism — the doctrine of monads as ultimate units of being.
- monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
- monastir — Bitola
- monaxial — uniaxial.
- monazite — a reddish- or yellowish-brown mineral, a phosphate of cerium and lanthanum, (Ce,La)PO 4 : the principal ore of thorium.
- mondaine — a woman who moves in fashionable society
- mondrian — Piet [peet] /pit/ (Show IPA), (Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan) 1872–1944, Dutch painter.
- mongolia — a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
- monilial — pertaining to or caused by a fungus of the genus Monilia.
- monoacid — having one replaceable hydrogen atom or hydroxyl radical.
- monomial — Algebra. consisting of one term only. (of a matrix) having exactly one non-zero term in each row and each column.
- monorail — a single rail functioning as a track for wheeled vehicles, as railroad or other cars, balanced upon or suspended from it.
- monrovia — a republic in W Africa: founded by freed American slaves 1822. About 43,000 sq. mi. (111,000 sq. km). Capital: Monrovia.
- montaria — a Brazilian canoe made of a single piece of timber
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- montilla — a dry, rather bitter wine of Spain.
- moonsail — a small sail carried high on the mast above the skysail
- morainal — a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- moraines — Plural form of moraine.