8-letter words containing m, y, e
- lumpenly — in a lumpen manner
- lysosome — a cell organelle containing enzymes that digest particles and that disintegrate the cell after its death.
- lysozyme — an enzyme that is destructive of bacteria and functions as an antiseptic, found in tears, leukocytes, mucus, egg albumin, and certain plants.
- macgyver — Alternative spelling of MacGyver.
- macready — William Charles, 1793–1873, English actor.
- maidenly — pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a maiden: a maidenly blush.
- maitreya — the future Buddha
- make hay — to mow grass, alfalfa, etc., and spread it out to dry
- make way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- malarkey — speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.
- mammetry — (obsolete) The religion of Muhammad: Islam.
- man-year — a unit of measurement, especially in accountancy, based on a standard number of man-days in a year of work.
- managery — Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
- mangabey — any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.
- mannerly — having or showing good manners; courteous; polite.
- many-one — (of a relation) having the property that each element is assigned to one element only but that many elements may be assigned to the same element.
- manyness — The quality or state of being many.
- markedly — strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
- martyred — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- marybeth — a female given name.
- masterly — like or befitting a master, as in skill or art; worthy of a master; very skillful: a masterly presentation of the budget.
- mattedly — in a matted manner
- maturely — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maumetry — Archaic form of mammetry.
- mawmetry — idolatry
- may tree — the hawthorn.
- may wine — a punch consisting typically of Alsatian, Moselle, or Rhine wine, flavored with woodruff.
- mayaguez — a seaport in W Puerto Rico.
- mayapple — American plant
- mayfield — a city in SW Kentucky.
- mayflies — Plural form of mayfly.
- mayoress — a woman who is the chief executive official of a city, village, or town.
- maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
- mayweeds — Plural form of mayweed.
- mccauley — Mary Ludwig Hays, real name of Molly Pitcher.
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- mcguffey — William Holmes, 1800–73, U.S. educator: editor of the Eclectic Readers, a series of school readers.
- mcintyre — James Francis Aloysius, 1886–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: cardinal from 1953; archbishop of Los Angeles 1948–70.
- mckinley — William, 1843–1901, 25th president of the U.S. 1897–1901.
- mckinney — a city in NE Texas.
- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagrely — In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- mebibyte — (computing) 220 (1,048,576) bytes. Abbreviated MiB.
- medially — situated in or pertaining to the middle; median; intermediate.
- medianly — In a median direction.
- megabyte — 2 20 (1,048,576) bytes.
- megacity — a city having a population of one million or more.
- megadyne — a unit of force equal to one million dynes
- meiocyte — a cell that divides by meiosis to produce four haploid spores (meiospores)