8-letter words containing m, e, s, u
- costumed — Simple past tense and past participle of costume.
- costumer — A costumer is the same as a costumier.
- costumes — Plural form of costume.
- costumey — resembling a costume and therefore unrealistic
- crumbles — Plural form of crumble.
- crummies — a cow with crooked horns.
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- crumples — to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
- cu-seeme — (communications) /see`-yoo-see'-mee/ ("CU" from Cornell University) A shareware personal computer-based videoconferencing program for use over the Internet, developed at Cornell University, starting in 1992. CU-SeeMe allows for direct audiovisual connections between clients, or, like irc, it can support multi-user converencing via servers (here called "reflectors") to distribute the video and audio signals between multiple clients. CU-SeeMe was the first videoconferencing tool available at a reasonable price (in this case, free) to users of personal computers. Compare with multicast backbone.
- cumulose — abounding in heaps or cumuli
- customed — accustomed; inured
- customer — You can use customer in expressions such as a cool customer or a tough customer to indicate what someone's behaviour or character is like.
- decorums — Plural form of decorum.
- dimerous — consisting of or divided into two parts.
- displume — to strip of plumes; deplume.
- dormeuse — mobcap.
- dormouse — any small, furry-tailed, Old World rodent of the family Gliridae, resembling small squirrels in appearance and habits.
- drum set — kit consisting of several drums
- drummers — Plural form of drummer.
- duelsome — having a propensity for duelling
- dumbells — Plural form of dumbell.
- dumbness — lacking intelligence or good judgment; stupid; dull-witted.
- dumbsize — (informal) To reduce the number of employees in a business without regard to organizational efficiency, such that its operations become unprofitable or inefficient.
- dumetose — (botany) dumose.
- dumfries — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- dummiest — a representation or copy of something, as for displaying to indicate appearance: a display of lipstick dummies made of colored plastic.
- dumpsite — dump (def 17).
- dumpster — a large metal bin for refuse designed to be hoisted onto a specially equipped truck for emptying or hauling away.
- eardrums — Plural form of eardrum.
- earmuffs — A pair of soft fabric coverings, connected by a band across the top of the head, that are worn over the ears to protect them from cold or noise.
- ebullism — (physiology) The formation of bubbles of gas in biological fluids due to reduced environmental pressure.
- embushed — Simple past tense and past participle of embush.
- embusque — man who avoids military conscription by obtaining a government job
- emeritus — (of the former holder of an office, esp. a college professor) Having retired but allowed to retain their title as an honor.
- emu bush — any of various Australian shrubs, esp those of the genus Eremophila (family Myoporaceae), whose fruits are eaten by emus
- emulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of emulate.
- emulsify — Make into or become an emulsion.
- emulsion — A fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible.
- emulsive — That yields an emulsion (or a milk-like substance).
- emulsoid — a sol with a liquid disperse phase
- enamours — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enamour.
- enormous — very big
- equalism — Any of several forms of egalitarianism (advocacy of equality) concerned with establishing sexual, racial, class or other equality.
- eremurus — a type of herb from the Liliaceae family
- espumoso — sparkling wine
- esquimau — Eskimo
- eudemons — Plural form of eudemon.
- eugenism — the practice or advocacy of eugenics
- eulogism — (rare) eulogistic language.
- eumerism — a biologic collection of similar parts