8-letter words containing i, t, e, m
- matrices — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
- matrixes — Plural form of matrix.
- maximite — a powerful explosive consisting primarily of picric acid.
- 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.
- mealtime — the usual time for a meal.
- meantime — the intervening time: The party is Tuesday, but in the meantime I have to shop and prepare the food.
- meat pie — pastry containing meat
- meatiest — Superlative form of meaty.
- mebibyte — (computing) 220 (1,048,576) bytes. Abbreviated MiB.
- mechitza — a screen in a synagogue separating men and women
- medalist — a person to whom a medal has been awarded.
- mediated — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- mediates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mediate.
- mediator — a person who mediates, especially between parties at variance.
- medicant — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
- medicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- meditate — to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
- meetings — Plural form of meeting.
- megabits — Plural form of megabit.
- megacity — a city having a population of one million or more.
- megalith — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
- megillot — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- mehitzah — a curtain or other divider that serves as a partition between the women's and the men's sections in Orthodox Jewish synagogues.
- meiocyte — a cell that divides by meiosis to produce four haploid spores (meiospores)
- meionite — a member of the scapolite group, rich in calcium and containing no sodium.
- meisters — Plural form of meister.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- melanite — a deep black variety of andradite garnet.
- melchite — a Christian in Egypt and Syria who accepted the definition of faith adopted by the Council of Chalcedon in a.d. 451.
- melilite — a sorosilicate mineral group, consisting chiefly of sodium, calcium, and aluminum silicates, occurring in igneous rocks.
- melilots — Plural form of melilot.
- melinite — a high explosive containing picric acid.
- melitene — ancient name of Malatya.
- melitose — raffinose.
- melittin — a polypeptide that is the main toxic component in bee venom
- mellitic — (of an acid) obtained from mellite
- mellitum — mellite.
- melodist — a composer or a singer of melodies.
- memetics — (philosophy) /me-met'iks/ The study of memes. As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps toward at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.
- memorist — a person who has a remarkably retentive memory.
- memphite — Also, Memphitic [mem-fit-ik] /mɛmˈfɪt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
- menilite — another name for liver opal, esp a brown or grey variety
- 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.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mephitic — offensive to the smell.
- mephitis — (in nontechnical use) a noxious or pestilential exhalation from the earth, as poison gas.
- meredith — George, 1828–1909, English novelist and poet.