8-letter words containing i, n, m
- measling — A form of delamination, or separation in a laminate material, resulting in a spotty appearance.
- mechanic — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
- meconium — the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.
- medaling — a flat piece of metal, often a disk but sometimes a cross, star, or other form, usually bearing an inscription or design, issued to commemorate a person, action, or event, or given as a reward for bravery, merit, or the like: a gold medal for the best swimmer.
- meddling — to involve oneself in a matter without right or invitation; interfere officiously and unwantedly: Stop meddling in my personal life!
- medecine — Misspelling of medicine.
- medellin — a city in W Colombia.
- medianly — In a median direction.
- medibank — the national health-insurance program instituted in Australia.
- medicant — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
- medicean — Catherine de', Catherine de Médicis.
- medician — (chiefly in science fiction) A physician, a medical doctor; a medic.
- medicine — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the health professions by doctors, nurses, and others involved in allied health care services. A dictionary with authoritative spellings and definitions is a particularly crucial resource in medicine, where a misspelling or misunderstanding can have unfortunate consequences for people under care. Print dictionaries in this field may be sorted alphabetically or may be categorized according to medical specializations or by the various systems in the body, as the immune system and the respiratory system. The online Medical Dictionary on Dictionary.com allows alphabetical browsing in the combined electronic versions of more than one authoritative medical reference, insuring access to correct spellings, as well as immediate, direct access to a known search term typed into the search box on the site: A medical dictionary reveals that large numbers of medical terms are formed from the same Latin and Greek parts combined and recombined.
- meetings — Plural form of meeting.
- meionite — a member of the scapolite group, rich in calcium and containing no sodium.
- melamine — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 3 N 3 (NH 2) 3 , used chiefly in organic synthesis and in the manufacture of resins, especially melamine resins.
- melanian — a freshwater mollusc of the former family Melaniidae. The Melaniidae family is now separated into the Thiaridae, Pleuroceridae, and Melanopsidae families.
- melanion — a youth of Arcadia, usually identified with Hippomenes as the successful suitor of Atalanta.
- melanise — Alt form melanize.
- melanism — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- melanite — a deep black variety of andradite garnet.
- melanize — To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in.
- melanoid — of or characterized by melanosis.
- melinite — a high explosive containing picric acid.
- melitene — ancient name of Malatya.
- melittin — a polypeptide that is the main toxic component in bee venom
- melodion — a small reed organ.
- membrain — Misspelling of membrane.
- memnonia — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a light region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- memphian — a native or inhabitant of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
- menacing — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- mendings — Plural form of mending.
- menially — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- menilite — another name for liver opal, esp a brown or grey variety
- meninges — The three membranes (the dura mater, arachnoid, and pia mater) that line the skull and vertebral canal and enclose the brain and spinal cord.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menomini — Menominee.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- mentions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mention.
- menuitis — /men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customisable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, for the rest of us.
- meridian — a city in E Mississippi.
- merienda — a light meal esp. in the late afternoon
- meringue — merengue.
- meriting — Present participle of merit.
- merrilyn — a female given name.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mess tin — a kind of portable saucepan used esp by the military
- messenia — a division of ancient Greece, in the SW Peloponnesus: an important center of Mycenaean culture.