8-letter words containing m, a, y, e
- empyreal — Pertaining to the highest heaven or the empyrean; celestial; sublime; exalted.
- empyrean — Belonging to or deriving from heaven.
- endogamy — The custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe.
- ependyma — (anatomy) A thin epithelial membrane lining the ventricular system of the brain and the spinal cord.
- epimysia — Plural form of epimysium.
- erythema — Superficial reddening of the skin, usually in patches, as a result of injury or irritation causing dilatation of the blood capillaries.
- euthymia — (psychology) A normal, non-depressed, reasonably positive mood; serenity.
- everyman — In fiction, drama, or allegory, the archetypical ordinary individual, frequently the protagonist in a parable of some sort.
- femality — Femaleness.
- feminacy — feminine nature.
- ferryman — a person who owns or operates a ferry.
- flaysome — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Terrifying; frightful.
- flymaker — a person who makes fishing flies
- game boy — a handheld games console, made by the company Nintendo, which was popular in the 1990s
- gameplay — The tactical aspects of a computer game, such as its plot and the way it is played, as distinct from the graphics and sound effects.
- gamyness — the quality of being gamy
- ganymeda — Hebe.
- ganymede — Also, Ganymedes [gan-uh-mee-deez] /ˌgæn əˈmi diz/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus and taken to Olympus, where he was made the cupbearer of the gods and became immortal.
- geomancy — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- glycemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- gramarye — occult learning; magic.
- gramercy — Obsolete. thanks.
- handymen — Plural form of handyman.
- haymaker — a person or machine that cuts hay and spreads it to dry.
- homestay — housing accommodations in a home with a family in residence, as for a student or traveler: Foreign-exchange students can choose between a homestay or campus dormitory.
- humanely — characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of prisoners.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hymeneal — of or relating to marriage.
- hymenean — A hymn, song or poem in honour of a wedding; a hymeneal.
- hymenial — relating to the layer of certain fungi which bears spores, composed of asci or basidia
- hyphemia — bleeding inside the eye caused by ruptured blood vessels
- jessamyn — a female given name, form of Jasmine.
- keyframe — A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
- keysmash — a random string of letters and symbols typed out on a keyboard or touchscreen, used to signal intense emotion in written communication: The photo of the actor was accompanied by a heartfelt keysmash.
- lamasery — a monastery of lamas.
- lambency — the quality of being lambent.
- lampreys — Plural form of lamprey.
- laywomen — a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
- lechayim — a toast used in drinking to a person's health or well-being.
- macgyver — Alternative spelling of MacGyver.
- macready — William Charles, 1793–1873, English actor.
- maidenly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a maiden: a maidenly blush.
- maitreya — the future Buddha
- make hay — to mow grass, alfalfa, etc., and spread it out to dry
- make way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- malarkey — speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.
- mammetry — (obsolete) The religion of Muhammad: Islam.
- man-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on a standard number of man-days in a year of work.
- managery — Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
- mangabey — any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.