8-letter words containing m, i, r
- armorize — to equip with armor or other protective devices: to armorize a car with bulletproof glass.
- aromatic — An aromatic plant or food has a strong, pleasant smell of herbs or spices.
- arrivism — the conduct or condition of an arriviste.
- art film — a film characterized primarily by content and technique that reflect an artistic sensibility, by psychological or social realism, etc.
- arythmia — Alternative spelling of arrhythmia.
- arythmic — relating to arythmia
- asharism — the classical synthesis of Islamic philosophical theology, formulated by al-Ashʿari.
- aspermia — the failure to form or emit semen
- aspermic — (of a male animal) Unable to produce sperm.
- asterism — three asterisks arranged in a triangle (⁂ or ), to draw attention to the text that follows
- atomiser — Modern commonwealth spelling of 'atomizer'.
- atomizer — a device for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, such as the nozzle used to feed oil into a furnace or an enclosed bottle with a fine outlet used to spray perfumes or medicines
- atropism — a condition caused by using atropine over a period of time
- aumildar — a manager or agent.
- auramine — a yellow, crystalline solid, C 17 H 22 ClN 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, used chiefly as a dye for paper and leather.
- auriform — shaped like an ear; auricular
- aviemore — a winter sports resort in Scotland, in Moray between the Monadhliath and Cairngorm Mountains. Pop: 2397 (2001)
- barfmail — (messaging) Multiple bounce messages accumulating to the level of serious annoyance, or worse. The sort of thing that happens when an inter-network mail gateway goes down or misbehaves.
- begrimed — dirty
- beltrami — Eugenio [e-oo-je-nyaw] /ˌɛ uˈdʒɛ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1900, Italian mathematician.
- benidorm — a coastal resort town in W Spain, on the Costa Blanca
- berimbau — a Brazilian single-stringed bowed instrument, used to accompany capoeira
- besmirch — If you besmirch someone or their reputation, you say that they are a bad person or that they have done something wrong, usually when this is not true.
- bichrome — having two colours
- big room — (jargon, humour) The extremely large room with the blue ceiling and intensely bright light (during the day) or black ceiling with lots of tiny night-lights (during the night) found outside all computer installations. "He can't come to the phone right now, he's somewhere out in the Big Room."
- big-room — denoting a style of electronic music featuring regular beats and simple melodies, designed to be played in large venues
- bimester — a period of two months
- binarism — the state of being binary
- binormal — the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve.
- biodrama — a drama based on the life of an actual person or persons.
- biometer — a device for measuring the production of carbon dioxide in functioning tissue
- biometry — the analysis of biological data using mathematical and statistical methods
- biomorph — a set of two-dimensional branching biomorphic images that can be used to illustrate evolutionary concepts
- biramous — divided into two parts, as the appendages of crustaceans
- birdfarm — a place where birds are kept
- birdlime — a sticky substance, prepared from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, smeared on twigs to catch small birds
- bismarck — a city in North Dakota, on the Missouri River: the state capital. Pop: 56 344 (2003 est)
- bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
- bovarism — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- boyarism — the rule of the boyars
- brachium — the arm, esp the upper part
- brahmani — a woman of the Brahman caste
- brahmins — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- bridgman — Percy Williams. 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics
- brimming — completely full with something
- brinkman — a person who practises brinkmanship
- bromelia — any plant of the family Bromeliaceae of tropical American plants, characterized by a short stem and deeply cleft calyx
- bromelin — a protein-digesting enzyme (see endopeptidase) found in pineapple and extracted for use in treating joint pain and inflammation, hay fever, and various other conditions