7-letter words containing m, e, c
- domenic — a male given name.
- dormice — any small, furry-tailed, Old World rodent of the family Gliridae, resembling small squirrels in appearance and habits.
- ducdame — a nonsensical refrain used in Shakespeare's As You Like It
- e-crime — criminal activity that involves the use of computers or networks such as the internet
- ecdemic — noting or pertaining to a disease that is observed far from the area in which it originates.
- echoism — onomatopoeia.
- economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
- ecthyma — a contagious viral disease of sheep and goats and occasionally of humans, marked by vesicular and pustular lesions on the lips.
- ecumene — (obsolete) All known inhabited areas of the world.
- emacity — Desire or fondness for buying.
- embolic — (pathology) Of or relating to an embolus or an embolism.
- embrace — An act of holding someone closely in one's arms.
- emetics — Plural form of emetic.
- emicant — Beaming forth; flashing.
- emicate — to spring up
- emiscan — a computerized radiological technique for examining the soft tissues of the body, esp the brain, to detect the presence of tumours, abscesses, etc
- emocore — Emo (the original style of hardcore punk rock).
- empiric — A person who, in medicine or other branches of science, relies solely on observation and experiment.
- emplace — To assign a position to something, or to locate something at a particular place.
- encamps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encamp.
- encharm — to enchant; bewitch
- encomia — Plural form of encomium.
- endemic — (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
- entomic — (zoology) Relating to insects; entomological.
- enzymic — Of, pertaining to, or using enzymes; enzymatic.
- epicism — a style or trope characteristic of epics
- etacism — (grammar) The pronunciation of the Greek eta like the Italian long e, or the vowel in the English word 'ate'.
- excimer — An unstable molecule that is formed in an excited state by the combination of two smaller molecules or atoms and rapidly dissociates with emission of radiation. Such species are utilized in some kinds of lasers.
- exclaim — Cry out suddenly, esp. in surprise, anger, or pain.
- exclame — Obsolete form of exclaim.
- faceman — a miner who works at the coalface, esp one who uses explosives
- gametic — a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
- gemclip — a paperclip
- genomic — a full set of chromosomes; all the inheritable traits of an organism.
- get.com — (operating system) A command which can be created using debug in MS DOS to set the errorlevel according to which key is pressed. The errorlevel can then be interrogated from a batch file by a series of commands like this: get if errorlevel 118 goto E118 if errorlevel 117 goto E117 if errorlevel 116 goto E116 if errorlevel 115 goto E115 if errorlevel 114 goto E114 where E118 etc. are labels in the batch file.
- grecism — the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
- grimace — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- hackmen — Plural form of hackman.
- hazchem — a word used on warning signs to indicate the presence of hazardous chemicals
- headcam — a camera that is worn on the front of the head and records video from the wearer's point of view.
- hematic — of or relating to blood; hemic.
- hemlock — a poisonous plant, Conium maculatum, of the parsley family, having purple-spotted stems, finely divided leaves, and umbels of small white flowers, used medicinally as a powerful sedative.
- home ec — home economics.
- homeric — of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
- ice jam — an obstruction of broken river ice in a narrow part of a channel.
- ice man — a man whose business is gathering, storing, selling, or delivering ice.
- imbrace — Obsolete spelling of embrace.
- impeach — to accuse (a public official) before an appropriate tribunal of misconduct in office.
- incomer — a person who comes in.
- incomes — Plural form of income.