8-letter words containing n, c, m
- mckinley — William, 1843–1901, 25th president of the U.S. 1897–1901.
- mckinney — a city in NE Texas.
- mckinnon — Sir Don(ald) (Charles). born 1939, New Zealand politician; secretary-general of the Commonwealth (2000–08); deputy prime minister of New Zealand (1990–96)
- mcmillan — Edwin Mattison [mat-uh-suh n] /ˈmæt ə sən/ (Show IPA), 1907–91, U.S. educator and physicist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1951.
- mcnamara — Robert Strange, 1916–2009, U.S. business executive and government official: Secretary of Defense 1961–68; president of World Bank 1968–81.
- mechanic — a person who repairs and maintains machinery, motors, etc.: an automobile mechanic.
- mechelen — French Malines. Flemish Mechelen [mekh-uh-luh n] /ˈmɛx ə lən/ (Show IPA). a city in N Belgium.
- meconate — a salt of meconic acid
- meconium — the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells.
- medecine — Misspelling of medicine.
- medicant — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
- medicean — Catherine de', Catherine de Médicis.
- medician — (chiefly in science fiction) A physician, a medical doctor; a medic.
- medicine — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the health professions by doctors, nurses, and others involved in allied health care services. A dictionary with authoritative spellings and definitions is a particularly crucial resource in medicine, where a misspelling or misunderstanding can have unfortunate consequences for people under care. Print dictionaries in this field may be sorted alphabetically or may be categorized according to medical specializations or by the various systems in the body, as the immune system and the respiratory system. The online Medical Dictionary on Dictionary.com allows alphabetical browsing in the combined electronic versions of more than one authoritative medical reference, insuring access to correct spellings, as well as immediate, direct access to a known search term typed into the search box on the site: A medical dictionary reveals that large numbers of medical terms are formed from the same Latin and Greek parts combined and recombined.
- menacing — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- menarche — the first menstrual period; the establishment of menstruation.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
- menschen — a decent, upright, mature, and responsible person.
- merchant — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- mergence — to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- metuchen — a city in NE New Jersey.
- 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.
- michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- midocean — The area in the middle of an ocean, far from shore.
- milicent — a female given name.
- milk can — large metal container for milk
- miltonic — of or relating to the poet Milton or his writings.
- minacity — menacing; threatening.
- minarchy — (countable) Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.
- mindfuck — the deliberate infliction of psychological damage
- mindlock — (fantasy, scifi) A magic spell or technology that restricts a person's ability to think freely.
- minicabs — Plural form of minicab.
- minicamp — A session run by a professional sports team to train particular players, or to test potential new players, before the main preseason training.
- minicars — Plural form of minicar.
- minidisc — A disc having a format similar to a small CD but able to record sound or data as well as play it back.
- minijack — A small jack (electrical connector).
- minorcan — of or relating to Minorca.
- miscegen — a person of mixed race
- miscount — an erroneous counting; miscalculation.
- mishnaic — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- mitching — Present participle of mitch.
- mixtecan — a branch of a family of American Indian languages spoken in central Mexico
- mnemonic — assisting or intended to assist the memory.
- mocassin — Alternative spelling of moccasin.
- moccasin — a heelless shoe made entirely of soft leather, as deerskin, with the sole brought up and attached to a piece of u -shaped leather on top of the foot, worn originally by the American Indians.