8-letter words containing r, o, m, i
- marocain — a crepe fabric made of silk, wool, or rayon, or a combination of these fibers, and distinguished by a strong rib effect, used in the manufacture of dresses and women's suits; a heavy Canton crepe.
- maronite — a member of a body of Uniates living chiefly in Lebanon, who maintain a Syriac liturgy and a married clergy, and who are governed by the patriarch of Antioch.
- maroquin — morocco leather
- martinon — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1910–76, French violinist, conductor, and composer.
- mediator — a person who mediates, especially between parties at variance.
- 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.
- melchior — one of the three Magi.
- 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.
- mercouri — Melina (məˈliːnə). 1925–94, Greek actress and politician: her films include Never on Sunday (1960); minister of culture (1981–85 and 1993–94)
- messidor — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the tenth month of the year, extending from June 19 to July 18.
- meteoric — of, relating to, or consisting of meteors.
- mic drop — a gesture in which a person drops (or imitates the action of dropping) a handheld microphone to the ground as the finale to a speech or performance
- mic-drop — the act of intentionally dropping one’s microphone at the end of a speech or performance, displaying a bold confidence that it has been very impressive or cannot be topped.
- micro ml — (uML) An interpreter for a subset of SML. Runs on MS-DOS. Written at the University of Umea, Sweden.
- microamp — One millionth ( 10-6 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as \u00b5A.
- microbar — a centimeter-gram-second unit of pressure, equal to one millionth of a bar; one dyne per square centimeter.
- microbat — Any of the small bats in the suborder Microchiroptera.
- microbes — Plural form of microbe.
- microbic — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
- microbot — A small mobile robot equipped with a microcontroller.
- microbus — minibus.
- microcap — (US, finance) The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
- microcar — A very small car.
- microdot — a photograph reduced to the size of a printed period, used especially to transmit messages, photographs, drawings, etc.
- microjet — a light jet-propelled aircraft
- microlog — (architecture) A section of non-volitile memory used to record state information. Often used for retaining crash information after a reboot in embedded systems.
- microlux — a millionth of a lux
- micromho — one millionth of a mho or siemens
- micronut — (climbing) A small nut (piece of metal jammed into the rockface to protect a climb).
- micropia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- micropig — A miniature breed of pig.
- microtia — A congenital deformity where the pinna (external ear) is underdeveloped.
- midstory — the layer of vegetation in a forest that consists of those trees whose height is in between the heights of the smallest and tallest trees
- migrator — (computing) A computer program that helps move objects between locations, e.g. from a legacy system to a new technology.
- milkwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Polygala, formerly supposed to increase the secretion of milk.
- millwork — ready-made carpentry work from a mill.
- minatory — menacing; threatening.
- miniator — to illuminate (a manuscript) in red; rubricate.
- minorcan — of or relating to Minorca.
- minoring — lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two: a minor share.
- minorite — Friar Minor.
- minority — the smaller part or number; a number, part, or amount forming less than half of the whole.
- minotaur — Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- miradors — Plural form of mirador.