8-letter words containing r, i, m
- bromidic — ordinary; dull
- brooming — an implement for sweeping, consisting of a brush of straw or stiff strands of synthetic material bound tightly to the end of a long handle.
- brumaire — the month of mist: the second month of the French revolutionary calendar, extending from Oct 23 to Nov 21
- brunizem — a type of dark prairie soil
- byronism — of or relating to Lord Byron.
- calamari — Calamari is squid that has been prepared for eating, usually by cutting it into rings, dipping it in a mixture of flour, milk and eggs, and frying it.
- cam-pier — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- cambrian — of, denoting, or formed in the first 65 million years of the Palaeozoic era, during which marine invertebrates, esp trilobites, flourished
- cambrick — Obsolete form of cambric.
- camisard — any French Protestant, living in the region of the Cévennes Mountains, who carried on a revolt against Louis XIV in the early part of the 18th century.
- campfire — A campfire is a fire that you light out of doors when you are camping.
- camphire — henna
- carbamic — of or derived from carbamic acid.
- carmania — a province of the ancient Persian empire, on the Gulf of Oman.
- carminic — Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine.
- caroming — Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.
- casimere — cassimere
- centrism — (especially in continental Europe) a member of a political party of the Center; moderate.
- ceramics — the art and techniques of producing articles of clay, porcelain, etc
- ceramide — any of a class of biologically important compounds used as moisturizers in skin-care preparations
- ceramist — a person who works in ceramics; ceramic artist
- cervicum — the flexible region between the prothorax and head in insects
- chadarim — plural of cheder.
- chairman — The chairman of a committee, organization, or company is the head of it.
- chairmen — the presiding officer of a meeting, committee, board, etc.
- charisma — You say that someone has charisma when they can attract, influence, and inspire people by their personal qualities.
- charisms — Plural form of charism.
- charmian — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “source of joy.”.
- charming — If you say that something is charming, you mean that it is very pleasant or attractive.
- chartism — the principles of the reform movement in Britain from 1838 to 1848, which included manhood suffrage, payment of Members of Parliament, equal electoral districts, annual parliaments, voting by ballot, and the abolition of property qualifications for MPs
- cheremis — Mari.
- cherubim — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- chimaera — any tapering smooth-skinned cartilaginous deep-sea fish of the subclass Holocephali (or Bradyodonti), esp any of the genus Chimaera. They have a skull in which the upper jaw is fused to the cranium
- chimeral — Of or pertaining to a chimera (in all senses).
- chimeras — Plural form of chimera.
- chimeres — Plural form of chimere.
- chimeric — unreal; imaginary; visionary: a chimerical terrestrial paradise.
- chimerid — any fish of the genus Chimaera
- choirman — a man who is a singer in a choir
- choriamb — a metrical foot used in classical verse consisting of four syllables, two short ones between two long ones (– ◡ ◡ –)
- chorioma — any benign or malignant tumor of chorionic tissue; choriocarcinoma.
- chrismal — Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.
- chrismon — the monogram and symbol of Christ's name, also known as chi-rho, derived from the initial two letters of the word Christ in Greek
- chrisoms — Plural form of chrisom.
- chromide — any fish of the family Cichlidae
- chromism — Chromatism.
- chromite — a brownish-black mineral consisting of a ferrous chromic oxide in cubic crystalline form, occurring principally in basic igneous rocks: the only commercial source of chromium and its compounds. Formula: FeCr2O4
- chromium — Chromium is a hard, shiny metallic element, used to make steel alloys and to coat other metals.
- chromize — to plate with chromium
- cibarium — Entomology. a food pouch in front of the mouth in certain insects.