8-letter words containing m, n, e, i
- melittin — a polypeptide that is the main toxic component in bee venom
- melodion — a small reed organ.
- membrain — Misspelling of membrane.
- memnonia — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a light region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- memphian — a native or inhabitant of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
- menacing — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- mendings — Plural form of mending.
- menially — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- menilite — another name for liver opal, esp a brown or grey variety
- 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.
- menomini — Menominee.
- 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.
- meridian — a city in E Mississippi.
- merienda — a light meal esp. in the late afternoon
- meringue — merengue.
- meriting — Present participle of merit.
- merrilyn — a female given name.
- 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.
- metaling — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- metanira — queen of Eleusis, who took Demeter in to nurse her child.
- metanoia — a profound, usually spiritual, transformation; conversion.
- 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.
- methinks — It seems to me.
- meuniere — (of food, especially fish) dipped in flour, sautéed in butter, and sprinkled with lemon juice and chopped parsley.
- mexicano — the Nahuatl language.
- michelin — André (ɑ̃dre). 1853–1931, French industrialist; founder, with his brother Édouard Michelin (1859–1940), of the Michelin Tyre Company (1888): the first to use demountable pneumatic tyres on motor vehicles
- michener — (Daniel) Roland, 1900–91, Canadian public official and diplomat: governor general 1967–74.
- mid-teen — of, relating to, or characteristic of a person 15–17 years old: specializing in mid-teen clothes.
- midhinge — (statistics) A measure of location of a batch or sample equal to the average of the first and third quartiles. Equivalently, it is the 25% trimmed mid-range;.
- midlines — Plural form of midline.
- midocean — The area in the middle of an ocean, far from shore.
- midrange — of, relating to, or occupying the middle audio frequencies: a midrange frequency.
- mignonne — small and delicate.
- migraine — an extremely severe paroxysmal headache, usually confined to one side of the head and often associated with nausea; hemicrania.
- milanese — a native or inhabitant of Milan, Italy.
- mildened — Simple past tense and past participle of milden.
- mildness — amiably gentle or temperate in feeling or behavior toward others.
- milelong — extending for a mile: a milelong beach.
- milesian — a native of Miletus.
- milicent — a female given name.
- mill end — one of the finished edges of a roll of carpet or fabric.
- millenia — Misspelling of millennia.