8-letter words containing m, e, n, s
- matinees — Plural form of matinee.
- matiness — sociable; friendly: a matey chat.
- matteson — a town in NE Illinois.
- mean sun — an imaginary sun moving uniformly in the celestial equator and taking the same time to make its annual circuit as the true sun does in the ecliptic.
- meanders — Plural form of meander.
- meanings — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- meanness — the state or quality of being mean.
- measling — A form of delamination, or separation in a laminate material, resulting in a spotty appearance.
- meekness — humbly patient or docile, as under provocation from others.
- meetings — Plural form of meeting.
- meetness — Fitness; suitability; propriety.
- megatons — Plural form of megaton.
- melanise — Alt form melanize.
- melanism — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- melanous — having a dark, swarthy complexion and dark-colored hair.
- mementos — an object or item that serves to remind one of a person, past event, etc.; keepsake; souvenir.
- menderes — Adnan [ahd-nahn] /ˈɑd nɑn/ (Show IPA), 1899–1961, Turkish political leader: premier 1950–60.
- mendings — Plural form of mending.
- menelaus — Classical Mythology. a king of Sparta, the husband of Helen and brother of Agamemnon, to whom he appealed for an army against Troy in order to recover Helen from her abductor, Paris.
- meninges — The three membranes (the dura mater, arachnoid, and pia mater) that line the skull and vertebral canal and enclose the brain and spinal cord.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menorahs — Plural form of menorah.
- mens rea — a criminal intent.
- menschen — a decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.
- menseful — gracious or proper
- mensural — pertaining to measure.
- menswear — men's wear.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- mentions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mention.
- menuitis — /men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customisable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, for the rest of us.
- meresman — a man who decides on the exact boundaries of a parish, etc
- meronyms — Plural form of meronym.
- mersenne — Marin [ma-ran] /maˈrɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1588–1648, French mathematician.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mesnalty — the estate of a mesne lord.
- mesodont — having medium-sized teeth.
- mesotron — (no longer in technical use) meson.
- mesozoan — any member of the phylum Mesozoa.
- mess tin — a kind of portable saucepan used esp by the military
- messenia — a division of ancient Greece, in the SW Peloponnesus: an important center of Mycenaean culture.
- messiaen — Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles [aw-lee-vyey œ-zhen praw-sper sharl] /ɔ liˈvyeɪ œˈʒɛn prɔˈspɛr ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1908–92, French composer and organist.
- messines — a village in W Belgium, near Ypres: battles 1914, 1917.
- methinks — It seems to me.
- metonyms — Plural form of metonym.
- midlines — Plural form of midline.
- milanese — a native or inhabitant of Milan, Italy.
- mildness — amiably gentle or temperate in feeling or behavior toward others.
- milesian — a native of Miletus.