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8-letter words containing i, n, o, m, a

  • marmiton — A chef's assistant, kitchen boy.
  • marocain — a crepe fabric made of silk, wool, or rayon, or a combination of these fibers, and distinguished by a strong rib effect, used in the manufacture of dresses and women's suits; a heavy Canton crepe.
  • 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.
  • maroquin — morocco leather
  • martinonJean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1910–76, French violinist, conductor, and composer.
  • masoning — Present participle of mason.
  • masonite — A type of hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards.
  • masvingo — a city in S central Zimbabwe.
  • melanion — a youth of Arcadia, usually identified with Hippomenes as the successful suitor of Atalanta.
  • melanoid — of or characterized by melanosis.
  • memnonia — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a light region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • metanoia — a profound, usually spiritual, transformation; conversion.
  • mexicano — the Nahuatl language.
  • midocean — The area in the middle of an ocean, far from shore.
  • 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.
  • misatone — to atone wrongly or improperly
  • 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.
  • 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
  • mondrianPiet [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.
  • morainic — Pertaining to a moraine.
  • moravian — pertaining to Moravia or its inhabitants.
  • morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
  • morgagni — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1682–1771, Italian anatomist.
  • mortmain — the condition of lands or tenements held without right of alienation, as by an ecclesiastical corporation; inalienable ownership.
  • motional — the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
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