8-letter words containing m, e, c
- menschen — a decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.
- mephitic — offensive to the smell.
- 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.
- mercedes — a city in SW Uruguay, on the Río Negro.
- merchant — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- merchets — Plural form of merchet.
- merchild — a mythical creature with the upper body of a child and the lower body of a fish
- merciful — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- 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Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; superseded in 2008 by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur or Unasul), by uniting with the Andean Community
- mercouri — Melina (məˈliːnə). 1925–94, Greek actress and politician: her films include Never on Sunday (1960); minister of culture (1981–85 and 1993–94)
- mercuric — of or containing mercury, especially in the bivalent state.
- mergence — to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
- mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
- meristic — of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- meteoric — of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.
- methodic — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- methylic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the methyl group.
- meticais — Plural form of metical.
- metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- metuchen — a city in NE New Jersey.
- 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.
- micelles — Plural form of micelle.
- michelet — Jules [zhyl] /ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1798–1874, French historian.
- michelin — André (ɑ̃dre). 1853–1931, French industrialist; founder, with his brother Édouard Michelin (1859–1940), of the Michelin Tyre Company (1888): the first to use demountable pneumatic tyres on motor vehicles
- michelle — a female given name.
- michener — (Daniel) Roland, 1900–91, Canadian public official and diplomat: governor general 1967–74.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- microjet — a light jet-propelled aircraft
- middle c — the note indicated by the first leger line above the bass staff and the first below the treble staff.
- 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