8-letter words containing m, e, n, h
- 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
- michener — (Daniel) Roland, 1900–91, Canadian public official and diplomat: governor general 1967–74.
- midhinge — (statistics) A measure of location of a batch or sample equal to the average of the first and third quartiles. Equivalently, it is the 25% trimmed mid-range;.
- molehunt — a hunt for moles
- monoheme — (biochemistry) A single heme group in a hemoprotein.
- monteith — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
- moonshee — a native interpreter or language instructor.
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- muchness — Archaic. greatness, as in quantity, measure, or degree.
- mulhacen — a mountain in S Spain: the highest peak in Spain. 11,411 feet (3478 meters).
- munchies — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.
- murrhine — of, relating to, or manufactured of murra.
- nehemiah — a Hebrew leader of the 5th century b.c.
- neomorph — (genetics) a gain of function mutation that causes novel gene function.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- new chum — a recent British immigrant
- new math — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- nichrome — An alloy of nickel with chromium (10 to 20 percent) and sometimes iron (up to 25 percent), used chiefly in high-temperature applications such as electrical heating elements.
- niflheim — a place of eternal cold, darkness, and fog, ruled over by Hel: abode of those who die of illness or old age.
- nymphaea — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.
- nymphean — Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs.
- nymphets — a young nymph.
- pathname — the sequence of symbols and names indicating the location of a particular file in a hierarchical file system.
- philemon — an Epistle written by Paul. Abbreviation: Phil.
- phlegmon — a swollen, red, and painful mass affecting bodily tissue that may progress to abscess
- phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
- phonemes — any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are arrived at for any given language by determining which differences in sound function to indicate a difference in meaning, so that in English the difference in sound and meaning between pit and bit is taken to indicate the existence of different labial phonemes, while the difference in sound between the unaspirated p of spun and the aspirated p of pun, since it is never the only distinguishing feature between two different words, is not taken as ground for setting up two different p phonemes in English. Compare distinctive feature (def 1).
- phonemic — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- prehuman — preceding the appearance or existence of human beings: the prehuman ages.
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
- shame on — shame should be felt by; this is shameful of
- shamisen — a Japanese plucked stringed instrument with a long neck, an unfretted fingerboard, and a rectangular soundbox
- shareman — a member of a fishing-boat crew who shares profits with the boat's owner in lieu of wages
- shearman — a person whose occupation it is to trim or shear cloth
- sheepman — a person engaged in the tending or breeding of sheep, especially the owner of a sheep ranch.
- shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- shireman — a sheriff
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- shymkent — a city in S Kazakhstan; a major railway junction. Pop: 469 000 (2005 est)
- smoothen — to make or become smooth
- somewhen — sometime.
- sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- swamphen — any of several large Old World gallinules varying from purple to white, all possibly belonging to the single species Porphyrio porphyrio.
- thanedom — something that belongs to or lies within the jurisdiction of a thane
- the manx — the people of the Isle of Man
- the many — the majority of mankind, esp the common people
- the morn — tomorrow