8-letter words containing m, a, c, i
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
- 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.
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- 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.
- michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- microamp — One millionth ( 10-6 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as \u00b5A.
- microbar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- microcap — (US, finance) The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
- microcar — A very small car.
- micropia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- microtia — A congenital deformity where the pinna (external ear) is underdeveloped.
- 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
- midwatch — middle watch.
- milk can — large metal container for milk
- milk cap — any of a large genus (Lactarius) of basidiomycetous fungi that are brittle to touch and exude a milky liquid when crushed. Some are funnel-shaped and some parasol-shaped, and most, except for L. deliciosus, are inedible
- millcake — linseed cake.
- millrace — the channel in which the current of water driving a mill wheel flows to the mill.
- minacity — menacing; threatening.
- minarchy — (countable) Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.
- minicabs — Plural form of minicab.
- minicamp — A session run by a professional sports team to train particular players, or to test potential new players, before the main preseason training.
- minicars — Plural form of minicar.
- minijack — A small jack (electrical connector).
- minorcan — of or relating to Minorca.
- miracles — Plural form of miracle.
- miracula — An implementation of a subset of Miranda by Stefan Kahrs <[email protected]>, LFCS, no modules or files. Can be interactively switched between eager and lazy evaluation. Portable source in C from the author.
- miscalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miscall.
- miscarry — to have a miscarriage of a fetus.
- misclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- misclass — to assign to the wrong class
- mishnaic — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- mismatch — to match badly or unsuitably.
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misspace — to space out wrongly
- mistcoat — (in house painting or interior decoration) a coat of thinner, sometimes pigmented, applied to a finish coat of paint to increase its luster.