8-letter words containing m, o, i, r
- mirepoix — a flavoring made from diced vegetables, seasonings, herbs, and sometimes meat, often placed in a pan to cook with meat or fish.
- mirliton — kazoo.
- miromiro — a small white-breasted New Zealand tit, Petroica macrocephala
- mirrored — a reflecting surface, originally of polished metal but now usually of glass with a silvery, metallic, or amalgam backing.
- miscolor — to give a wrong color to.
- misenrol — to enrol inaccurately or wrongly
- misnomer — A wrong or inaccurate name or designation.
- misorder — to put (items, events, etc) into the incorrect order
- misproud — unreasonably proud.
- misroute — Divert or direct to the wrong place or by the wrong route.
- missouri — a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City. Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- misthrow — (transitive) To throw incorrectly.
- mistutor — to teach badly or wrongly
- miswrote — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- modifier — a person or thing that modifies.
- modiolar — relating to the modiolus
- moidores — Plural form of moidore.
- moisture — condensed or diffused liquid, especially water: moisture in the air.
- molarity — the number of moles of solute per liter of solution.
- monastir — Bitola
- mondrian — Piet [peet] /pit/ (Show IPA), (Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan) 1872–1944, Dutch painter.
- monicker — a person's name, especially a nickname or alias.
- monikers — Plural form of moniker.
- monitors — Plural form of monitor.
- monitory — serving to admonish or warn; admonitory.
- monitrix — (archaic) A female monitor; a monitress.
- monorail — a single rail functioning as a track for wheeled vehicles, as railroad or other cars, balanced upon or suspended from it.
- monrovia — a republic in W Africa: founded by freed American slaves 1822. About 43,000 sq. mi. (111,000 sq. km). Capital: Monrovia.
- monsieur — the conventional French title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.
- montaria — a Brazilian canoe made of a single piece of timber
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- moonrise — the rising of the moon above the horizon.
- moorbird — moorfowl.
- moorings — the act of a person or thing that moors.
- morainal — a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
- moraines — Plural form of moraine.
- morainic — Pertaining to a moraine.
- moralise — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- moralism — the habit of moralizing.
- moralist — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- morality — conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.
- moralize — to reflect on or express opinions about something in terms of right and wrong, especially in a self-righteous or tiresome way.
- moravian — pertaining to Moravia or its inhabitants.
- morbidly — suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.: a morbid interest in death.
- morbific — causing disease.
- morbihan — a department in W France. 2738 sq. mi. (7090 sq. km). Capital: Vannes.
- morbilli — measles (def 1).
- mordecai — the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- mordovia — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
- morgagni — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1682–1771, Italian anatomist.