8-letter words containing o, s, t, e, m
- fretsome — Fretful, fidgety, restless.
- gemstone — a precious or semiprecious stone that can be cut and polished for use as a gem.
- gourmets — Plural form of gourmet.
- grommets — Plural form of grommet.
- headmost — most advanced; foremost.
- helotism — the state or quality of being a helot; serfdom.
- hemostat — an instrument or agent used to compress or treat bleeding vessels in order to arrest hemorrhage.
- homesite — a plot of land for a home.
- homestay — housing accommodations in a home with a family in residence, as for a student or traveler: Foreign-exchange students can choose between a homestay or campus dormitory.
- hostname — (computing) the unique name by which any device attached to a network is known.
- hot mess — a person or thing that is a mess, as in being disorganized, confused, or untidy, yet remains attractive or appealing: He’s a hot mess when he wakes up in the morning!
- immodest — not modest in conduct, utterance, etc.; indecent; shameless.
- imposted — a tax; tribute; duty.
- imposter — a tax; tribute; duty.
- isometry — equality of measure.
- isotherm — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- leftmost — Farthest to the left.
- maestoso — (especially as a direction) in a majestic manner.
- maestros — Plural form of maestro.
- magnetos — Plural form of magneto.
- marmoset — any of several small, squirrellike, South and Central American monkeys of the genera Callithrix, Leontocebus, etc., having soft fur and a long, nonprehensile tail: some species are endangered.
- masonite — A type of hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards.
- masorete — one of the writers or compilers of the Masorah.
- matteson — a town in NE Illinois.
- megatons — Plural form of megaton.
- melilots — Plural form of melilot.
- melitose — raffinose.
- melodist — a composer or a singer of melodies.
- mementos — an object or item that serves to remind one of a person, past event, etc.; keepsake; souvenir.
- memorist — a person who has a remarkably retentive memory.
- mentions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mention.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mesodont — having medium-sized teeth.
- mesolect — any variety of language in a creole continuum that is intermediate between the basilect and the acrolect.
- mesolite — a mineral variety of the zeolite group, intermediate in chemical composition between natrolite and scolecite.
- mesotron — (no longer in technical use) meson.
- mestizos — Plural form of mestizo.
- metasoma — the posterior part of an arachnid's abdomen (opisthosoma) that never carries appendages
- metonyms — Plural form of metonym.
- metopism — a congenital disfigurement of the forehead in which the frontal suture, which normally undergoes closure during childhood, persists
- milepost — any of a series of posts set up to mark distance by miles, as along a highway, or an individual post showing the distance to or from a place.
- misatone — to atone wrongly or improperly
- misbegot — Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin.
- misletoe — Archaic form of mistletoe.
- misquote — a quotation that is incorrect.
- misroute — Divert or direct to the wrong place or by the wrong route.
- 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.
- mitogens — Plural form of mitogen.
- mobsters — Plural form of mobster.
- modelist — a person who makes models, as of airplanes.