8-letter words containing m, i, n, s
- mashings — Plural form of mashing.
- maskings — Plural form of masking.
- masoning — Present participle of mason.
- masonite — A type of hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards.
- masurian — of or relating to Masuria, a region of NE Poland, or its inhabitants
- masvingo — a city in S central Zimbabwe.
- matinees — Plural form of matinee.
- matiness — sociable; friendly: a matey chat.
- maximins — Plural form of maximin.
- mcintosh — a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
- meanings — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- measling — A form of delamination, or separation in a laminate material, resulting in a spotty appearance.
- meetings — Plural form of meeting.
- melanise — Alt form melanize.
- melanism — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- mendings — Plural form of mending.
- meninges — The three membranes (the dura mater, arachnoid, and pia mater) that line the skull and vertebral canal and enclose the brain and spinal cord.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- mentions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mention.
- menuitis — /men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customisable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, for the rest of us.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mess tin — a kind of portable saucepan used esp by the military
- messenia — a division of ancient Greece, in the SW Peloponnesus: an important center of Mycenaean culture.
- messiaen — Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles [aw-lee-vyey œ-zhen praw-sper sharl] /ɔ liˈvyeɪ œˈʒɛn prɔˈspɛr ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1908–92, French composer and organist.
- messines — a village in W Belgium, near Ypres: battles 1914, 1917.
- methinks — It seems to me.
- midlands — a city in W Texas.
- midlines — Plural form of midline.
- migrants — Plural form of migrant.
- milanese — a native or inhabitant of Milan, Italy.
- mildness — amiably gentle or temperate in feeling or behavior toward others.
- milesian — a native of Miletus.
- milkings — Plural form of milking.
- millings — Plural form of milling.
- millions — a cardinal number, a thousand times one thousand.
- milstein — Cesar, 1927–2002, Argentinian immunologist: Nobel prize 1984.
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.
- mind-set — an attitude, disposition, or mood.
- mindless — without intelligence; senseless: a mindless creature.
- mindmaps — Plural form of mindmap.
- mindsets — Plural form of mindset.
- 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.
- mingiest — Superlative form of mingy.
- mini-ski — a ski that is shorter than standard size, esp used by learners
- minibars — Plural form of minibar.
- miniboss — (video games) A minor or incidental boss in a video game.
- minicabs — Plural form of minicab.