8-letter words containing m, c, s
- marchers — Plural form of marcher.
- marchesa — an Italian noblewoman, equivalent in rank to a marquise.
- marchese — an Italian nobleman, equivalent in rank to a marquis.
- masaccio — (Tommaso Guidi) 1401–28? Italian painter.
- mascagni — Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1945, Italian operatic composer.
- mascaron — mask (def 11).
- mashiach — the messiah
- mashloch — (Scotland, obsolete) A type of low-quality bread made from flour and other grains.
- massacer — Archaic form of massacre.
- massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
- masscult — the forms of culture, as music, drama, and literature, as selected, interpreted, and popularized by the mass media for dissemination to the widest possible audience.
- massicot — monoxide of lead, PbO, in the form of a yellow powder, used as a pigment and drier.
- mastitic — Pathology. inflammation of the breast.
- matchups — Plural form of matchup.
- 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.
- mattocks — Plural form of mattock.
- mcaleese — Mary (Patricia). born 1951, Irish politician; president of Ireland (1997–2011)
- mcintosh — a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
- mcmaster — John Bach, 1852–1932, U.S. historian and educator.
- medevacs — Plural form of medevac.
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- megacosm — (obsolete) A macrocosm.
- melchers — Gari [gair-ee] /ˈgɛər i/ (Show IPA), 1860–1932, U.S. painter.
- melodics — the branch of musical science concerned with the pitch and succession of tones.
- 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.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menschen — a decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.
- mercedes — a city in SW Uruguay, on the Río Negro.
- merchets — Plural form of merchet.
- mercosur — a trading block composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; superseded in 2008 by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur or Unasul), by uniting with the Andean Community
- meristic — of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- merycism — a condition in which undigested food is regurgitated
- mesaraic — (anatomy) mesenteric.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mesmeric — produced by mesmerism; hypnotic.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- mesolect — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesozoic — noting or pertaining to an era occurring between 230 and 65 million years ago, characterized by the appearance of flowering plants and by the appearance and extinction of dinosaurs.
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- meticais — Plural form of metical.
- micelles — Plural form of micelle.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- microbus — minibus.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- mimetics — Plural form of mimetic.
- minicabs — Plural form of minicab.
- minicars — Plural form of minicar.
- minidisc — A disc having a format similar to a small CD but able to record sound or data as well as play it back.