8-letter words containing m, i, s, n, a, e
- 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
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- 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.
- milanese — a native or inhabitant of Milan, Italy.
- milesian — a native of Miletus.
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.
- 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.
- mintages — Plural form of mintage.
- misagent — a bad agent
- misatone — to atone wrongly or improperly
- mislearn — To learn wrongly.
- misnamed — Simple past tense and past participle of misname.
- mistaken — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
- moraines — Plural form of moraine.
- naderism — the philosophy and beliefs of consumerism and environmentalism preached by Ralph Nader
- paeanism — the show of a paean
- reinsman — a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
- seminate — disseminated; scattered; strewn
- seminoma — a malignant tumour of the testicle
- semolina — a granular, milled product of durum wheat, consisting almost entirely of endosperm particles, used chiefly in the making of pasta.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- shamisen — a Japanese plucked stringed instrument with a long neck, an unfretted fingerboard, and a rectangular soundbox
- shireman — a sheriff
- sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden
- simazine — a colorless crystalline selective herbicide, C 7 H 1 2 ClN 5 , used for season-long weed control in corn and other crops.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- solimena — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1657–1747, Italian painter.
- somniate — to dream
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steinman — David Barnard, 1886–1960, U.S. civil engineer: specialist in bridge design and construction.
- suleiman — ("the Magnificent") 1495?–1566, sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66.
- sumerian — of or relating to Sumer, its people, or their language.
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- tidesman — a Customs official at a port
- timespan — a span of time; time frame.
- veganism — a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.
- weismann — August [ou-goo st] /ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1834–1914, German biologist.
- womanise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of womanize.