8-letter words containing m, e, r, i, a
- moralise — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- moralize — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- mordecai — the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- muraenid — any fish of the family Muraenidae, comprising the morays.
- muricate — covered with short, sharp points.
- naderism — the philosophy and beliefs of consumerism and environmentalism preached by Ralph Nader
- paroemia — a proverb; an axiom
- pearmain — any of several varieties of apple having a red skin
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- preimage — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- premiate — to grant a prize or an award to.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- prizeman — a man who wins a prize
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- racemism — (of a compound) the state of being optically inactive and separable into two other substances of the same chemical composition as the original substance, one of which is dextrorotatory and the other levorotatory, as racemic acid.
- racemize — to change or cause to change into a racemic mixture
- racemoid — racemic
- ragtimer — a person who plays ragtime music
- ramequin — a small dish in which food can be baked and served.
- ramillie — a wig with a long plait at the back, fashionable in the 18th century
- ramses i — 1324?–1258 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.
- rat mite — a widespread tropical mite (Ornithonyssus bacoti) of the same order (Parasitiformes) as ticks: it is carried by rats and can cause skin inflammations or transmit typhus to human beings by its bite
- re-admit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- re-claim — to claim or demand the return or restoration of, as a right, possession, etc.
- re-image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- reaffirm — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- realisms — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- recamier — Madame (Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard) 1777–1849, French social leader in the literary and political circles of Paris.
- regalism — the principle that royalty have the highest power, esp when referring to church affairs
- reinsman — a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- remained — to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
- remargin — to provide additional cash or collateral to a broker in order to keep secure stock bought on margin.
- remedial — affording remedy; tending to remedy something.
- remigate — to row
- remittal — a remission.
- rhematic — pertaining to the formation of words.
- rifleman — a soldier armed with a rifle.
- riverman — a boatman or a man earning his living working on a river
- rolamite — (sometimes initial capital letter) an almost frictionless mechanical device consisting of a flexible metal band formed in an S-shaped loop around moving rollers.
- romanite — a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- romanize — to make Roman Catholic.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- 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.
- sapremia — blood poisoning caused by the toxins produced by bacterial putrefaction, as in gangrene.
- semiarch — a half arch.
- semiarid — characterized by very little annual rainfall, usually from 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 cm): the struggle to raise vegetables in semiarid regions.