8-letter words containing s, i, m, e, t
- isotherm — Meteorology. a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having equal temperature.
- itemised — Simple past tense and past participle of itemise.
- itemizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of itemize.
- lamister — lamster.
- limiteds — Plural form of limited.
- limiters — Plural form of limiter.
- magister — Master; sir: -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
- maitakes — Plural form of maitake.
- maitrise — mastery; skill.
- majestic — characterized by or possessing majesty; of lofty dignity or imposing aspect; stately; grand: the majestic Alps.
- majestie — Archaic form of majesty.
- maliseet — Malecite.
- mangiest — Superlative form of mangy.
- manifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- manliest — having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, as strength or bravery.
- mantises — Plural form of mantis.
- marmites — Plural form of marmite.
- masonite — A type of hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards.
- masstige — noting or pertaining to goods that are perceived to have prestige or high style but are affordable for a wide range of customers: This five-dollar bottle of hand cream is aimed at the masstige market.
- 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.