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8-letter words containing m, e, p, h

  • hypoderm — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
  • hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
  • impleach — to intertwine
  • mageship — the role or office of a mage
  • mateship — the state of being a mate.
  • memphian — a native or inhabitant of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
  • memphite — Also, Memphitic [mem-fit-ik] /mɛmˈfɪt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
  • meneptah — Merneptah.
  • mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • mephitic — offensive to the smell.
  • mephitis — (in nontechnical use) a noxious or pestilential exhalation from the earth, as poison gas.
  • metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
  • misshape — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
  • morpheme — any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1).
  • morpheus — Classical Mythology. a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams.
  • 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.
  • muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
  • murphies — Plural form of murphy.
  • neomorph — (genetics) a gain of function mutation that causes novel gene function.
  • nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
  • nymphaea — a room or area having a fountain, statues, flowers, etc.
  • nymphean — Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs.
  • nymphets — a young nymph.
  • pamphlet — a complete publication of generally less than 80 pages stitched or stapled together and usually having a paper cover.
  • pamphrey — a cabbage
  • pathname — the sequence of symbols and names indicating the location of a particular file in a hierarchical file system.
  • peamouth — a minnow, Mylocheilus caurinus, of northwestern U.S. and British Columbian waters.
  • philemon — an Epistle written by Paul. Abbreviation: Phil.
  • philomel — the nightingale.
  • 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.
  • phyllome — a leaf of a plant.
  • prehuman — preceding the appearance or existence of human beings: the prehuman ages.
  • psephism — (in ancient Athens) a proposition adopted by a majority vote in the public assembly
  • ramphele — Mamphela. born 1947, Black South African political activist: partner of Steve Biko; a director of the World Bank (2000–04); founded the political party Agang (2013)
  • samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
  • seraphim — a plural of seraph.
  • sheepman — a person engaged in the tending or breeding of sheep, especially the owner of a sheep ranch.
  • shipmate — a person who serves with another on the same vessel.
  • shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
  • shrimper — a shrimp fisherman.
  • sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
  • swamphen — any of several large Old World gallinules varying from purple to white, all possibly belonging to the single species Porphyrio porphyrio.
  • symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
  • teraphim — small images or other things representing household gods, used among ancient Semitic peoples
  • the hump — a fit of depression or sulking (esp in the phrase it gives me the hump)
  • the lump — self-employed workers in the building trade considered collectively, esp with reference to tax and national insurance evasion
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