8-letter words containing m, i, c, r
- grimaces — Make a grimace.
- harmonic — pertaining to harmony, as distinguished from melody and rhythm.
- hermetic — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- hermitic — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- hormonic — Biochemistry. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues when transported to them by the body fluids.
- ibm pcjr — (computer) (IBM PC Junior) A floppy disk-based home computer with an Intel 8088 CPU and a chiclet keyboard, released in November 1983. The PCjr could be expanded to have two floppy drives and 640 kilobytes of RAM using sidecars. Some even had a mouse and could run drawing programs with popup menus.
- icecream — Alternative spelling of ice cream.
- icemaker — an appliance for making ice, especially ice cubes: Some refrigerators have built-in icemakers.
- impacter — a person or thing that impacts.
- impactor — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- incomber — Archaic form of encumber.
- incomers — Plural form of incomer.
- incoterm — Alternative case form of Incoterm.
- incumber — encumber.
- intercom — an intercommunication system.
- isocryme — a line on a map connecting points that have the same temperature during the coldest period of a year
- isomeric — of, relating to, or displaying isomerism.
- jim crow — racial segregation
- jim-crow — favoring or supporting Jim Crow.
- keramics — ceramics.
- lacrimal — lachrymal (defs 1–3).
- limerick — a county in N Munster, in the SW Republic of Ireland. 037 sq. mi. (2686 sq. km).
- lyricism — lyric character or style, as in poetry.
- macarise — congratulate
- macarism — Happiness as a result of praise.
- macarize — To congratulate.
- macaroni — small, tubular pasta prepared from wheat flour.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- machairs — Plural form of machair.
- machiner — One who operates a machine.
- macrotia — (medicine) Abnormal development of the auricle of the ear.
- magicker — (fantasy) One who does magic; a sorcerer or magician.
- mail car — a railroad car for carrying mail.
- manicure — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- marantic — (medicine) Pertaining to marasmus.
- marasmic — malnutrition occurring in infants and young children, caused by insufficient intake of calories or protein and characterized by thinness, dry skin, poor muscle development, and irritability.
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- marciano — Rocky (Rocco Francis Marchegiano) 1924–69, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1952–56.
- margaric — pearly; resembling a pearl.
- mariachi — pertaining to traditional Mexican dance music, usually played by a small band of strolling musicians dressed in native costumes.
- marichal — Juan, born 1937, U.S. baseball pitcher, born in the Dominican Republic.
- maricopa — a member of a North American Indian people of south-central Arizona.
- marlitic — having the nature of marlite
- marocain — a crepe fabric made of silk, wool, or rayon, or a combination of these fibers, and distinguished by a strong rib effect, used in the manufacture of dresses and women's suits; a heavy Canton crepe.
- matrices — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
- maverick — Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, especially an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.
- mcintire — Samuel, 1757–1811, U.S. architect and woodcarver.
- mcintyre — James Francis Aloysius, 1886–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: cardinal from 1953; archbishop of Los Angeles 1948–70.