8-letter words containing m, a, c, e
- menacing — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- menarche — the first menstrual period; the establishment of menstruation.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- mercator — Gerhardus [jer-hahr-duh s] /dʒərˈhɑr dəs/ (Show IPA), (Gerhard Kremer) 1512–94, Flemish cartographer and geographer.
- merchant — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
- merodach — Marduk.
- merrimac — a warship (originally the Union steamer Merrimack) that the Confederates converted into an ironclad, renamed the Virginia, and used against the Monitor in 1862 in the first battle between ironclads.
- mesaraic — (anatomy) mesenteric.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- metacard — A commercial human interface and hypertext system for Unix and the X Window System, similar to Hypercard.
- metallic — of, relating to, or consisting of metal.
- metamict — of or denoting the amorphous state of a substance that has lost its crystalline structure as a result of the radioactivity of uranium or thorium within it
- metazoic — Of, or relating to the metazoa.
- meticais — Plural form of metical.
- metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- mexicali — a city in and the capital of Baja California, in NW Mexico, on the Mexican-U.S. border.
- mexicano — the Nahuatl language.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- micellar — Physical Chemistry. an electrically charged particle formed by an aggregate of molecules and occurring in certain colloidal electrolyte solutions, as those of soaps and detergents.
- midocean — The area in the middle of an ocean, far from shore.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- millcake — linseed cake.
- millrace — the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
- miracles — Plural form of miracle.
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misspace — to space out wrongly
- misteach — to teach wrongly or badly.
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- mixtecan — a branch of a family of American Indian languages spoken in central Mexico
- mockable — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- molecast — the heap of earth excavated by a mole tunnelling underground
- mooncake — A rich, dense Chinese pastry with a variety of fillings, usually to eat in Zhongqiu Festival.
- moonface — a round and full face
- mordecai — the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- moschate — having a musky smell.
- mucilage — any of various, usually liquid, preparations of gum, glue, or the like, used as an adhesive.
- muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
- muckrake — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- mulhacen — a mountain in S Spain: the highest peak in Spain. 11,411 feet (3478 meters).
- muricate — covered with short, sharp points.
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscadet — a white grape grown especially in the lower Loire Valley region of France.
- muscatel — a sweet wine made from muscat grapes.
- musicale — a music program forming the main part of a social occasion.
- mustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.