8-letter words containing m, i, n, e, r
- meriting — Present participle of merit.
- merrilyn — a female given name.
- metanira — queen of Eleusis, who took Demeter in to nurse her child.
- metering — an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
- meuniere — (of food, especially fish) dipped in flour, sautéed in butter, and sprinkled with lemon juice and chopped parsley.
- michener — (Daniel) Roland, 1900–91, Canadian public official and diplomat: governor general 1967–74.
- midrange — of, relating to, or occupying the middle audio frequencies: a midrange frequency.
- migraine — an extremely severe paroxysmal headache, usually confined to one side of the head and often associated with nausea; hemicrania.
- milliner — a person who designs, makes, or sells hats for women.
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.
- mindware — The mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems or make decisions.
- minerals — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
- minister — a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
- minorite — Friar Minor.
- minsters — Plural form of minster.
- minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
- miriness — a miry quality or condition
- misenrol — to enrol inaccurately or wrongly
- misenter — to enter incorrectly
- misentry — an incorrect or mistaken entry
- misinfer — to infer wrongly
- misinter — to bury wrongly
- mislearn — To learn wrongly.
- misnomer — A wrong or inaccurate name or designation.
- mitering — the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- monicker — a person's name, especially a nickname or alias.
- monikers — Plural form of moniker.
- monsieur — the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- moonrise — the rising of the moon above the horizon.
- moraines — Plural form of moraine.
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- motioner — One who makes a motion; a mover.
- muraenid — any fish of the family Muraenidae, comprising the morays.
- murrhine — of, relating to, or manufactured of murra.
- mutineer — a person who mutinies.
- naderism — the philosophy and beliefs of consumerism and environmentalism preached by Ralph Nader
- negroism — the doctrine or advocacy of equal rights for black people.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- nichrome — An alloy of nickel with chromium (10 to 20 percent) and sometimes iron (up to 25 percent), used chiefly in high-temperature applications such as electrical heating elements.
- niemeyer — Oscar, 1907–2012, Brazilian architect.
- nim tree — neem (def 2).
- noncrime — an incident that is not considered to be against the law
- numerics — The field of numerically-controlled engineering.
- omnivore — someone or something that is omnivorous.
- on merit — If you judge something or someone on merit or on their merits, your judgment is based on what you notice when you consider them, rather than on things that you know about them from other sources.
- oneirism — (rare) Dream-like experiences or qualities; dreaminess.
- orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- overmine — to mine too much
- pearmain — any of several varieties of apple having a red skin