8-letter words containing r, i, e, m
- prelimit — to limit within bounds beforehand: The chairman prelimited his speech to 10 minutes.
- premiate — to grant a prize or an award to.
- premiere — movie: first showing
- premiers — the winners of a premiership
- premised — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- premises — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- primness — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primrose — Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of.
- prizeman — a man who wins a prize
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- promisee — a person to whom a promise is made.
- proxemic — Sociology, Psychology. the study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of population density on behavior, communication, and social interaction.
- quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- racemism — (of a compound) the state of being optically inactive and separable into two other substances of the same chemical composition as the original substance, one of which is dextrorotatory and the other levorotatory, as racemic acid.
- racemize — to change or cause to change into a racemic mixture
- racemoid — racemic
- ragtimer — a person who plays ragtime music
- ramequin — a small dish in which food can be baked and served.
- ramillie — a wig with a long plait at the back, fashionable in the 18th century
- ramses i — 1324?–1258 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.
- rat mite — a widespread tropical mite (Ornithonyssus bacoti) of the same order (Parasitiformes) as ticks: it is carried by rats and can cause skin inflammations or transmit typhus to human beings by its bite
- re-admit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- re-claim — to claim or demand the return or restoration of, as a right, possession, etc.
- re-image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- reaffirm — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
- realisms — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- recamier — Madame (Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard) 1777–1849, French social leader in the literary and political circles of Paris.
- recommit — to commit again.
- red mist — a feeling of extreme anger that clouds one's judgment temporarily
- refugium — an area where special environmental circumstances have enabled a species or a community of species to survive after extinction in surrounding areas.
- regalism — the principle that royalty have the highest power, esp when referring to church affairs
- regiment — Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
- reillume — to relight or to light up again
- reimport — to import back into the country of exportation.
- reimpose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- reinform — to inform again or anew
- reinsman — a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- relumine — to relume.
- remained — to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
- remargin — to provide additional cash or collateral to a broker in order to keep secure stock bought on margin.
- remedial — affording remedy; tending to remedy something.
- remedied — something that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder; a healing medicine, application, or treatment.
- remiform — shaped like an oar.
- remigate — to row
- reminded — to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something): Remind me to phone him tomorrow. That woman reminds me of my mother.
- reminder — a person or thing that serves to remind.
- remittal — a remission.