8-letter words containing m, s, i
- melodist — a composer or a singer of melodies.
- memetics — (philosophy) /me-met'iks/ The study of memes. As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps toward at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.
- memories — the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
- memorise — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- memorist — a person who has a remarkably retentive memory.
- memsahib — (formerly, in India) a term of respect for a married European woman.
- mendings — Plural form of mending.
- 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.
- 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.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mephitis — (in nontechnical use) a noxious or pestilential exhalation from the earth, as poison gas.
- meristem — embryonic tissue in plants; undifferentiated, growing, actively dividing cells.
- meristic — of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- mermaids — Plural form of mermaid.
- merriest — Superlative form of merry.
- merycism — a condition in which undigested food is regurgitated
- mesaraic — (anatomy) mesenteric.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mesially — Toward the central plane of a body with bilateral symmetry.
- mesmeric — produced by mesmerism; hypnotic.
- mesolite — a mineral variety of the zeolite group, intermediate in chemical composition between natrolite and scolecite.
- mesozoic — noting or pertaining to an era occurring between 230 and 65 million years ago, characterized by the appearance of flowering plants and by the appearance and extinction of dinosaurs.
- mesquite — a city in NE Texas, E of Dallas.
- mess kit — a portable set of usually metal cooking and eating utensils, used especially by soldiers and campers.
- mess tin — a kind of portable saucepan used esp by the military
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- 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.
- messiahs — Plural form of messiah.
- messidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the tenth month of the year, extending from June 19 to July 18.
- messiest — Superlative form of messy.
- messines — a village in W Belgium, near Ypres: battles 1914, 1917.
- mestizas — Plural form of mestiza.
- mestizos — Plural form of mestizo.
- metalist — a person who works with metals.
- methinks — It seems to me.
- methysis — drunkenness
- meticais — Plural form of metical.
- metopism — a congenital disfigurement of the forehead in which the frontal suture, which normally undergoes closure during childhood, persists
- metrists — Plural form of metrist.
- metritis — inflammation of the uterus.
- mézières — Forest of, a wooded plateau region in W Europe, in NE France, SE Belgium, and Luxembourg: World War I battle 1914; World War II battle 1944–45.
- miasmata — noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
- miasmous — miasmal
- micelles — Plural form of micelle.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.