8-letter words containing n, i, e, m
- feminine — pertaining to a woman or girl: feminine beauty; feminine dress.
- feminise — Alternative spelling of feminize.
- feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- feminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- feminity — the quality of being feminine; womanliness.
- feminize — Make (something) more characteristic of or associated with women.
- fermions — Plural form of fermion.
- figments — Plural form of figment.
- filament — a very fine thread or threadlike structure; a fiber or fibril: filaments of gold.
- filename — an identifying name given to an electronically stored computer file, conforming to limitations imposed by the operating system, as in length or restricted choice of characters.
- filiment — Misspelling of filament.
- firmness — not soft or yielding when pressed; comparatively solid, hard, stiff, or rigid: firm ground; firm texture.
- fisnomie — an archaic spelling of physiognomy
- fitments — Plural form of fitment.
- flemming — Walther [vahl-tuh r] /ˈvɑl tər/ (Show IPA), 1843–1905, German cell biologist.
- friedman — Bruce Jay, born 1930, U.S. novelist.
- frienemy — Alternative form of frenemy.
- galenism — the medical system or principles of Galen.
- gaminess — the taste or odor of game, especially when slightly tainted.
- gem iron — a heavy, usually cast-iron oven dish used for baking small cakes (gems)
- geminate — Also, geminated. combined or arranged in pairs; twin; coupled.
- geminian — a person born under the sign of Gemini, usually between May 21st and June 20th.
- geminids — a collection of meteors making up a meteor shower (Gem·inid me·teor show·er) visible around December 13, having its apparent origin in the constellation Gemini.
- geminous — found in pairs
- genomics — the study of genomes.
- geranium — any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
- germaine — a female given name.
- germania — an ancient region in central Europe, N of the Danube River.
- germanic — of or relating to the Teutons or their languages.
- germinal — being in the earliest stage of development: germinal ideas.
- germline — Those cells of an individual that have genetic material that could be passed to offspring; the source of gametes.
- geronimo — (Goyathlay) 1829–1909, American Apache Indian chief.
- gleaming — a flash or beam of light: the gleam of a lantern in the dark.
- goldmine — Alternative spelling of gold mine.
- gremlins — Plural form of gremlin.
- grimness — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- gynecium — gynoecium.
- haematin — Alternative spelling of hematin.
- hedonism — the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.
- helenium — An American plant of the daisy family that bears many red to yellow flowers, each having a prominent central disk.
- helminth — a worm, especially a parasitic worm.
- hematein — a reddish-brown, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 16 H 12 O 6 , obtained from logwood: used chiefly as a stain in microscopy.
- hematine — Biochemistry. heme.
- hemionus — (zoology, obsolete) A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
- hemlines — Plural form of hemline.
- hemmings — Plural form of hemming.
- hempvine — Any plant of the genus Mikania.
- hermione — the daughter of Menelaus and Helen.
- hexamine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 6 H 12 N 4 , used as a vulcanization accelerator, an absorbent in gas masks, in the manufacture of the explosive RDX and synthetic resins, and in medicine as a diuretic and urinary antiseptic.
- hexomino — (geometry) A polyomino made up of six squares.