8-letter words containing s, e, i, t
- mateship — the state of being a mate.
- mathesis — learning or wisdom, esp of a mathematical nature
- matinees — Plural form of matinee.
- matiness — sociable; friendly: a matey chat.
- matrices — something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops: The Greco-Roman world was the matrix for Western civilization.
- matrixes — Plural form of matrix.
- meatiest — Superlative form of meaty.
- medalist — a person to whom a medal has been awarded.
- mediates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mediate.
- meetings — Plural form of meeting.
- megabits — Plural form of megabit.
- meisters — Plural form of meister.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- melilots — Plural form of melilot.
- melitose — raffinose.
- melodist — a composer or a singer of melodies.
- memetics — (philosophy) /me-met'iks/ The study of memes. As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps toward at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others. Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.
- memorist — a person who has a remarkably retentive memory.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- mentions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mention.
- menuitis — /men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape. Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customisable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks. See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, for the rest of us.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mephitis — (in nontechnical use) a noxious or pestilential exhalation from the earth, as poison gas.
- meristem — embryonic tissue in plants; undifferentiated, growing, actively dividing cells.
- meristic — of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- merriest — Superlative form of merry.
- mesolite — a mineral variety of the zeolite group, intermediate in chemical composition between natrolite and scolecite.
- mesquite — a city in NE Texas, E of Dallas.
- mess kit — a portable set of usually metal cooking and eating utensils, used especially by soldiers and campers.
- mess tin — a kind of portable saucepan used esp by the military
- messiest — Superlative form of messy.
- mestizas — Plural form of mestiza.
- mestizos — Plural form of mestizo.
- metalist — a person who works with metals.
- methinks — It seems to me.
- methysis — drunkenness
- meticais — Plural form of metical.
- metopism — a congenital disfigurement of the forehead in which the frontal suture, which normally undergoes closure during childhood, persists
- metrists — Plural form of metrist.
- metritis — inflammation of the uterus.
- midterms — Plural form of midterm.
- mightest — (archaic) second-person singular simple past of may.
- mighties — Plural form of mighty.
- migrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of migrate.
- 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.
- milstein — Cesar, 1927–2002, Argentinian immunologist: Nobel prize 1984.
- mimester — a mime artist
- mimetics — Plural form of mimetic.
- mimetism — mimicry (defs 1, 3).
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.