8-letter words containing r, i, e, m
- mediator — a person who mediates, especially between parties at variance.
- medicare — (sometimes lowercase) a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65. Compare Medicaid.
- mediocer — Obsolete form of mediocre.
- mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- megafirm — A very large firm.
- meisters — Plural form of meister.
- melchior — one of the three Magi.
- membrain — Misspelling of membrane.
- memorial — something designed to preserve the memory of a person, event, etc., as a monument or a holiday.
- memoried — having a memory (usually used in combination): short-memoried; long-memoried.
- memories — the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
- memorise — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- memorist — a person who has a remarkably retentive memory.
- memorize — to commit to memory; learn by heart: to memorize a poem.
- merchild — a mythical creature with the upper body of a child and the lower body of a fish
- merciful — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mercouri — Melina (məˈliːnə). 1925–94, Greek actress and politician: her films include Never on Sunday (1960); minister of culture (1981–85 and 1993–94)
- mercuric — of or containing mercury, especially in the bivalent state.
- meredith — George, 1828–1909, English novelist and poet.
- mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
- meridian — a city in E Mississippi.
- merienda — a light meal esp. in the late afternoon
- meringue — merengue.
- meristem — embryonic tissue in plants; undifferentiated, growing, actively dividing cells.
- meristic — of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- meriting — Present participle of merit.
- mermaids — Plural form of mermaid.
- merriest — Superlative form of merry.
- merrilyn — a female given name.
- merrimac — a warship (originally the Union steamer Merrimack) that the Confederates converted into an ironclad, renamed the Virginia, and used against the Monitor in 1862 in the first battle between ironclads.
- merycism — a condition in which undigested food is regurgitated
- mesaraic — (anatomy) mesenteric.
- mesmeric — produced by mesmerism; hypnotic.
- messidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the tenth month of the year, extending from June 19 to July 18.
- metairie — an area of land held under the metayage system
- metanira — queen of Eleusis, who took Demeter in to nurse her child.
- meteoric — of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.
- metering — an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
- metrical — pertaining to meter or poetic measure.
- metrists — Plural form of metrist.
- metritis — inflammation of the uterus.
- meuniere — (of food, especially fish) dipped in flour, sautéed in butter, and sprinkled with lemon juice and chopped parsley.
- mézières — Forest of, a wooded plateau region in W Europe, in NE France, SE Belgium, and Luxembourg: World War I battle 1914; World War II battle 1944–45.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- micellar — Physical Chemistry. an electrically charged particle formed by an aggregate of molecules and occurring in certain colloidal electrolyte solutions, as those of soaps and detergents.
- michener — (Daniel) Roland, 1900–91, Canadian public official and diplomat: governor general 1967–74.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- microjet — a light jet-propelled aircraft
- mid-rise — (of a building) having a moderately large number of stories, usually five to ten, and equipped with elevators.
- mid-year — the middle of the year.