8-letter words containing i, n, e, r, t
- line art — graphic material that consists of lines or areas of pure black and pure white and requires no screening for reproduction. Compare halftone (def 2).
- lingster — an interpreter
- lintfree — Free of lint.
- listener — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- marinate — to steep (food) in a marinade.
- maronite — a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.
- martinet — a strict disciplinarian, especially a military one.
- martinez — a town in W California.
- mcintire — Samuel, 1757–1811, U.S. architect and woodcarver.
- mcintyre — James Francis Aloysius, 1886–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: cardinal from 1953; archbishop of Los Angeles 1948–70.
- meriting — Present participle of merit.
- metanira — queen of Eleusis, who took Demeter in to nurse her child.
- metering — an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.
- minister — a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
- minorite — Friar Minor.
- minsters — Plural form of minster.
- minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
- misenter — to enter incorrectly
- misentry — an incorrect or mistaken entry
- misinter — to bury wrongly
- mitering — the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- motioner — One who makes a motion; a mover.
- mutineer — a person who mutinies.
- naartjie — (South Africa) Citrus reticulata, (mandarin, satsuma, tangerine); a soft, loose-skinned tangerine.
- nartjies — Plural form of nartjie.
- navicert — A form of passport permitting a neutral ship to traverse a blockade in wartime.
- nazarite — (among the ancient Hebrews) a person who had taken certain strict religious vows, usually for a limited period.
- nazirite — (among the ancient Hebrews) a person who had taken certain strict religious vows, usually for a limited period.
- nearctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising temperate Greenland and arctic North America, sometimes including high mountainous regions of the northern Temperate Zone.
- necrotic — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- negritic — of or relating to blacks or to the Negritos.
- neoteric — modern; new; recent.
- nephrite — Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- nerdiest — Slang. of or like a nerd.
- neuritic — inflammation of a nerve.
- neuritis — inflammation of a nerve.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- neustria — the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
- neutrino — any of the massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons. There is a distinct kind of neutrino associated with each of the massive leptons.
- neutrois — noting or relating to a person of neutral gender who also lacks a specific gender identity.
- nighters — Plural form of nighter.
- nim tree — neem (def 2).
- nitrated — Reacted, or treated with nitric acid or a nitrate.
- nitrates — Plural form of nitrate.
- nitrides — Plural form of nitride.
- nitrites — Plural form of nitrite.
- nitrogen — a colorless, odorless, gaseous element that constitutes about four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere and is present in combined form in animal and vegetable tissues, especially in proteins: used chiefly in the manufacture of ammonia, nitric acid, cyanide, explosives, fertilizer, dyes, as a cooling agent, etc. Symbol: N; atomic weight: 14.0067; atomic number: 7; density: 1.2506 g/l at 0°C and 760 mm pressure.
- noninert — not inert