8-letter words containing m, n, e, i
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semillon — a variety of white grape used in winemaking, especially in France in the Sauternes district of Bordeaux.
- semilune — a half-moon shape
- 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
- seminole — a member of any of several groupings of North American Indians comprising emigrants from the Creek Confederacy territories to Florida or their descendants in Florida and Oklahoma, especially the culturally conservative present-day Florida Indians.
- seminoma — a malignant tumour of the testicle
- seminude — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- semiopen — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- semitone — a pitch interval halfway between two whole tones.
- 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
- sepiment — a hedge or fence that acts as a dividing line
- sermonic — of, relating to, or resembling a sermon.
- shamisen — a Japanese plucked stringed instrument with a long neck, an unfretted fingerboard, and a rectangular soundbox
- shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- 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.
- simoleon — a dollar.
- simonize — to shine or polish to a high sheen, especially with wax: to simonize an automobile.
- slimline — slim in appearance.
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- smelting — to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
- smidgeon — a very small amount: a smidgen of jam for your toast.
- solimena — Francesco [frahn-ches-kaw] /frɑnˈtʃɛs kɔ/ (Show IPA), 1657–1747, Italian painter.
- somniate — to dream
- sondheim — Stephen (Joshua) born 1930, U.S. composer and lyricist.
- specimen — a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, plant, mineral, part, etc.
- spermine — a polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 3 NH(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from spermidine and occurring in all cells, especially prevalent in semen, sputum, pancreatic tissue, and certain yeasts.
- splenium — a structure in the brain
- 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.
- stemming — Skiing. the act or instance of a skier pushing the heel of one or both skis outward so that the heels are far apart, as in making certain turns or slowing down.
- 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.
- tempting — that tempts; enticing or inviting.
- terminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- terminer — a person or thing that limits or determines
- terminus — the end or extremity of anything.
- theremin — a musical instrument with electronic tone generation, the pitch and tone volume being controlled by the distance between the player's hands and two metal rods serving as antennas.
- thermion — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
- thiamine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound of the vitamin-B complex, containing a thiazole and a pyrimidine group, C 12 H 17 ClN 4 OS, essential for normal functioning of the nervous system, a deficiency of which results chiefly in beriberi and other nerve disorders: occurring in many natural sources, as green peas, liver, and especially the seed coats of cereal grains, the commercial product of which is chiefly synthesized in the form of its chloride (thiamine chloride or thiamine hydrochloride) for therapeutic administration, or in nitrate form (thiamine mononitrate) for enriching flour mixes.
- tidesman — a Customs official at a port
- timeline — a linear representation of important events in the order in which they occurred.
- timespan — a span of time; time frame.
- timeworn — worn or impaired by time.
- timoneer — someone who steers a ship