8-letter words containing m, e, n, s
- milstein — Cesar, 1927–2002, Argentinian immunologist: Nobel prize 1984.
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.
- mind-set — an attitude, disposition, or mood.
- mindless — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
- mindsets — Plural form of mindset.
- minerals — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- mingiest — Superlative form of mingy.
- minifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of minify.
- minimise — to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
- minister — a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
- minivets — Plural form of minivet.
- minsters — Plural form of minster.
- minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
- mintages — Plural form of mintage.
- minuends — Plural form of minuend.
- minutest — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- miriness — a miry quality or condition
- misagent — a bad agent
- misatone — to atone wrongly or improperly
- misbegin — to begin incorrectly or badly
- misbegun — Begun badly or incorrectly.
- miscegen — a person of mixed race
- misenrol — to enrol inaccurately or wrongly
- misenter — to enter incorrectly
- misentry — an incorrect or mistaken entry
- misevent — an event that does not take place as expected or planned
- misfeign — to feign with evil intention
- misgiven — (of one's mind, heart, etc.) to give doubt or apprehension to.
- misinfer — to infer wrongly
- misinter — to bury wrongly
- mislearn — To learn wrongly.
- misnamed — Simple past tense and past participle of misname.
- misnomer — A wrong or inaccurate name or designation.
- misogyne — (rare) A misogynist.
- missense — (biology) A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.
- misspend — to spend wrongly or unwisely; squander; waste.
- misspent — spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted: misspent youth.
- mistaken — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
- mitogens — Plural form of mitogen.
- moistens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moisten.
- moleskin — the soft, deep-gray, fragile fur of the mole.
- moliones — Cteatus and Eurytus, the twin sons of Molione, sometimes said to have been joined at the waist. They were fathered by Poseidon and reared by Actor.
- momentos — memento.
- monensin — a complex derivative of butyric acid, C 3 6 H 6 2 O 1 1 , produced by the bacterium Streptomyces cinnamonensis and used as an antibiotic in animals.
- monerans — Plural form of moneran.
- monessen — a city in SW Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- monetise — to legalize as money.
- mongoose — a slender, ferretlike carnivore, Herpestes edwardsi, of India, that feeds on rodents, birds, and eggs, noted especially for its ability to kill cobras and other venomous snakes.
- mongrels — Plural form of mongrel.
- monikers — Plural form of moniker.