8-letter words containing m, e, t
- comedist — a writer of comedies.
- cometary — a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- comether — the act of persuading or coaxing
- comfiest — comfortable.
- comities — Plural form of comity.
- comments — Plural form of comment.
- commuted — to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
- commuter — a person who travels to work over an appreciable distance, usually from the suburbs to the centre of a city
- commutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commute.
- competed — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- competer — to strive to outdo another for acknowledgment, a prize, supremacy, profit, etc.; engage in a contest; vie: to compete in a race; to compete in business.
- competes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compete.
- compleat — an archaic spelling of complete, used esp in the titles of handbooks, in imitation of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
- complect — to interweave or entwine
- complete — You use complete to emphasize that something is as great in extent, degree, or amount as it possibly can be.
- completo — (slang) A hot dog with the works.
- compotes — Plural form of compote.
- computed — Calculate or reckon (a figure or amount).
- computer — a device, usually electronic, that processes data according to a set of instructions. The digital computer stores data in discrete units and performs arithmetical and logical operations at very high speed. The analog computer has no memory and is slower than the digital computer but has a continuous rather than a discrete input. The hybrid computer combines some of the advantages of digital and analog computers
- computes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compute.
- comtesse — countess
- contempo — contemporary
- contempt — If you have contempt for someone or something, you have no respect for them or think that they are unimportant.
- copemate — a partner, comrade, paramour, or spouse
- cosmetic — Cosmetics are substances such as lipstick or powder, which people put on their face to make themselves look more attractive.
- 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
- cpu time — processor time
- crabmeat — Crabmeat is the part of a crab that you eat.
- cremated — Simple past tense and past participle of cremate.
- cremates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cremate.
- cremator — a furnace for cremating corpses
- crewmate — a colleague on the crew of a boat or ship
- crumpets — Plural form of crumpet.
- cumulate — to accumulate
- 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.
- cut time — alla breve
- cytosome — the body of a cell excluding its nucleus
- damastes — Procrustes.
- damewort — Hesperis matronalis, a herbaceous mustard.
- damietta — a town in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta: important medieval commercial centre
- damndest — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- datepalm — Alternative spelling of date palm.
- daytimes — Plural form of daytime.
- decimate — To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
- decommit — to withdraw from a commitment or agreed course of action
- decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici