8-letter words containing m, e, t, r, a
- ornament — an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part: architectural ornaments.
- outdream — to exceed in dreaming
- overmast — to provide (a ship) with a mast that is too tall or heavy
- overtame — too tame
- parament — a decoration for a room, as a tapestry.
- permeant — permeating; pervading.
- permeate — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
- peterman — a safecracker.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- premiate — to grant a prize or an award to.
- prestamp — to stamp in advance
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
- racemate — a salt or ester of racemic acid.
- ragtimer — a person who plays ragtime music
- ramentum — a scraping, shaving, or particle.
- ramsgate — a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
- 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.
- rearmost — farthest in the rear; last.
- red meat — any meat that is dark-colored before cooking, as beef, lamb, venison, or mutton (distinguished from white meat).
- reformat — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- remanent — remaining; left behind.
- remarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- remaster — to make a new master tape or record from an old master tape, usually to improve the fidelity of an old recording.
- remigate — to row
- remittal — a remission.
- remnants — a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
- rhematic — pertaining to the formation of words.
- 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.
- roommate — a person who is assigned to share or shares a room or apartment with another or others.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- santarem — a city in N Brazil, on the Amazon River.
- scramjet — a ramjet engine in which the flow through the combustor itself is supersonic.
- seamster — a person whose occupation is sewing; tailor.
- seriatim — in a series; one after another in regular order
- sitkamer — a sitting room; lounge
- smartest — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- staumrel — stupid; half-witted.
- stemware — glass or crystal vessels, especially for beverages and desserts, having rounded bowls mounted on footed stems.
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- streamer — something that streams: streamers of flame.
- tamper's — a person or thing that tamps.
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- tarentum — ancient name of Taranto.