8-letter words containing i, r, m, n
- riverman — a boatman or a man earning his living working on a river
- roarming — severe
- romanian — a native or inhabitant of Romania.
- romanism — Roman Catholicism.
- romanist — Disparaging. a member of the Roman Catholic Church.
- romanite — a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- romanize — to make Roman Catholic.
- romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- roumania — Romania.
- 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.
- rumbling — a deep, heavy, somewhat muffled, continuous sound: the rumble of tanks across a bridge.
- ruminant — any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, being comprised of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, besides domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels, and chevrotains.
- 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.
- scrinium — a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.
- seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- sermonic — of, relating to, or resembling a sermon.
- shireman — a sheriff
- skyrmion — a particle consisting of a magnetic field surrounding a group of atoms
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smirking — to smile in an affected, smug, or offensively familiar way.
- smirting — the activity of flirting between smokers who are smoking cigarettes outside a no-smoking office, pub, etc
- smurfing — the activity of using a specially designed computer program to attack a computer network by flooding it with messages, thereby rendering it inoperable
- spermine — a polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 3 NH(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from spermidine and occurring in all cells, especially prevalent in semen, sputum, pancreatic tissue, and certain yeasts.
- storming — a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- swingarm — the main part of the rear suspension on a motorcycle
- tamanoir — a large anteater of Central and South America, Myrmecophaga tridactyla
- tamarind — the pod of a large, tropical tree, Tamarindus indica, of the legume family, containing seeds enclosed in a juicy acid pulp that is used in beverages and food.
- tantrism — (italics) Hinduism. any of several books of esoteric doctrine regarding rituals, disciplines, meditation, etc., composed in the form of dialogues between Shiva and his Shakti; Agama.
- taormina — a resort commune in Messina, in E Sicily, Italy: Roman remains.
- terminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- terminer — a person or thing that limits or determines
- terminus — the end or extremity of anything.
- theremin — a musical instrument with electronic tone generation, the pitch and tone volume being controlled by the distance between the player's hands and two metal rods serving as antennas.
- thermion — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
- thrombin — an enzyme of the blood plasma that catalyzes the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, the last step of the blood clotting process.
- timeworn — worn or impaired by time.
- timoneer — someone who steers a ship
- torminal — of or relating to tormina
- trailman — trailsman.
- trainman — a member of the crew that operates a railroad train, usually an assistant to the conductor, such as a brakeman or flagman.
- tramline — a streetcar system.
- tramming — trammel (def 3).
- tramping — the act of tramping.
- transmit — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- trigonum — trigone.
- trimaran — a vessel similar to a catamaran but having three separate hulls.
- trimming — the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.