8-letter words containing i, m, e
- reminded — to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something): Remind me to phone him tomorrow. That woman reminds me of my mother.
- reminder — a person or thing that serves to remind.
- remittal — a remission.
- remitted — to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
- remittee — a person or company to which a remittance is made.
- remitter — Law. the principle or operation by which a person who enters on an estate by a defective title, and who previously had an earlier and more valid title to it, is adjudged to hold it by the earlier and more valid one. the act of remitting a case to another court for decision.
- remodify — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- remotion — the act of removing; removal.
- reniform — kidney-shaped: a reniform leaf; hematite in reniform masses.
- renminbi — the currency of the People's Republic of China, the basic unit of which is the yuan.
- reprimed — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- reremice — a bat.
- reremind — to remind again
- residuum — the residue, remainder, or rest of something.
- resubmit — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- resuming — to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue: to resume a journey.
- retiform — netlike; reticulate.
- rhematic — pertaining to the formation of words.
- ribosome — a tiny, somewhat mitten-shaped organelle occurring in great numbers in the cell cytoplasm either freely, in small clusters, or attached to the outer surfaces of endoplasmic reticula, and functioning as the site of protein manufacture.
- ribozyme — a segment of RNA that can act as a catalyst.
- rifleman — a soldier armed with a rifle.
- rim-fire — (of a cartridge) having the primer in a rim encircling the base. Compare center-fire (def 1).
- rimester — a writer of inferior verse; poetaster.
- riminess — the state or quality of being rimy
- rimstone — a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- riverman — a boatman or a man earning his living working on a river
- rolamite — (sometimes initial capital letter) an almost frictionless mechanical device consisting of a flexible metal band formed in an S-shaped loop around moving rollers.
- romanite — a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- romanize — to make Roman Catholic.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- rudiment — Usually, rudiments. the elements or first principles of a subject: the rudiments of grammar. a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something: the rudiments of a plan.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- run time — 1. The elapsed time to perform a computation on a particular computer. 2. The amount of time a processor actually spent on a particular process and not on other processes or overhead (see time-sharing). 3. The period of time during which a program is being executed, as opposed to compile-time or load time. The term should be hyphenated when used as an adjective. 4. run-time support.
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- sapremia — blood poisoning caused by the toxins produced by bacterial putrefaction, as in gangrene.
- scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- schimmel — a roan-coloured horse
- schirmer — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1829–93, born in Germany, and his sons Rudolph Edward, 1859–1919, and Gustave, 1864–1907, U.S. music publishers.
- scrimper — a person who scrimps
- sea mile — nautical mile.
- sea mist — a mist over or from the sea.
- sea-maid — a mermaid.
- seamlike — like or resembling a seam
- sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- seedtime — the season for sowing seed.
- seismism — the natural activity or group of phenomena associated with earthquakes.
- selamlik — the portion of a Turkish palace or house reserved for men.
- selenium — a nonmetallic element chemically resembling sulfur and tellurium, occurring in several allotropic forms, as crystalline and amorphous, and having an electrical resistance that varies under the influence of light. Symbol: Se; atomic weight: 78.96; atomic number: 34; specific gravity: (gray) 4.80 at 25°C, (red) 4.50 at 25°C.
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.