8-letter words containing i, m, e
- catamite — a boy kept for sexual purposes
- centimes — Plural form of centime.
- centimos — Plural form of centimo.
- centrism — (especially in continental Europe) a member of a political party of the Center; moderate.
- ceramics — the art and techniques of producing articles of clay, porcelain, etc
- ceramide — any of a class of biologically important compounds used as moisturizers in skin-care preparations
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cervicum — the flexible region between the prothorax and head in insects
- chairmen — the presiding officer of a meeting, committee, board, etc.
- chemical — Chemical means involving or resulting from a reaction between two or more substances, or relating to the substances that something consists of.
- chemico- — chemical
- chemises — Plural form of chemise.
- chemists — Plural form of chemist.
- chemnitz — a city in E Germany, in Saxony, at the foot of the Erzgebirge: textiles, engineering. Pop: 249 922 (2003 est)
- chemosis — (medicine) A chemically-induced swelling of the mucous membrane of the eye.
- cheremis — Mari.
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- chiefdom — a graded social group led by a chief whose position the chief usually accedes to
- chimaera — any tapering smooth-skinned cartilaginous deep-sea fish of the subclass Holocephali (or Bradyodonti), esp any of the genus Chimaera. They have a skull in which the upper jaw is fused to the cranium
- chimbley — (UK, dialect) A chimney.
- chimbote — a port in N central Peru: contains Peru's first steelworks (1958), using hydroelectric power from the Santa River. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- chime in — If you chime in, you say something just after someone else has spoken.
- chimenea — An earthenware outdoor fireplace shaped like a light bulb, with the bulbous end housing the fire and typically supported by a wrought-iron stand.
- chimeral — Of or pertaining to a chimera (in all senses).
- chimeras — Plural form of chimera.
- chimeres — Plural form of chimere.
- chimeric — unreal; imaginary; visionary: a chimerical terrestrial paradise.
- chimerid — any fish of the genus Chimaera
- chiminea — a free-standing outdoor fireplace with a rounded body
- chimkent — city in SC Kazakhstan, north of Tashkent: pop. 439,000
- chimneys — Plural form of chimney.
- chosisme — a writing style in which plot and characterization are de-emphasized and people, events, and setting are recorded as though seen by the author through the lens of a camera.
- chowtime — the time for eating a meal
- chromide — any fish of the family Cichlidae
- chromite — a brownish-black mineral consisting of a ferrous chromic oxide in cubic crystalline form, occurring principally in basic igneous rocks: the only commercial source of chromium and its compounds. Formula: FeCr2O4
- chromize — to plate with chromium
- ciminite — a rock containing large quantities of trachyte
- cimolite — a soft, clayey mineral of white, grey, or reddish coloration
- cinerama — wide-screen presentation of films using either three separate 35mm projectors or one 70mm projector to produce an image on a large deeply curved screen
- cis male — a person who was born male and whose gender identity is male.
- clamlike — any of various bivalve mollusks, especially certain edible species. Compare quahog, soft-shell clam.
- clematis — A clematis is a type of flowering shrub which can be grown to climb up walls or fences. There are many different varieties of clematis.
- clementi — Muzio [moo-tsyaw] /ˈmu tsyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1752–1832, Italian pianist and composer in England.
- climates — Plural form of climate.
- climaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of climax.
- climaxes — Plural form of climax.
- climbers — Plural form of climber.
- clinamen — a bias or inclination
- clumpier — Comparative form of clumpy.
- clumsier — Comparative form of clumsy.