8-letter words containing s, m, a, c
- mascagni — Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1945, Italian operatic composer.
- mascaron — mask (def 11).
- mashiach — the messiah
- mashloch — (Scotland, obsolete) A type of low-quality bread made from flour and other grains.
- massacer — Archaic form of massacre.
- massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
- masscult — the forms of culture, as music, drama, and literature, as selected, interpreted, and popularized by the mass media for dissemination to the widest possible audience.
- massicot — monoxide of lead, PbO, in the form of a yellow powder, used as a pigment and drier.
- mastitic — Pathology. inflammation of the breast.
- matchups — Plural form of matchup.
- 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.
- mattocks — Plural form of mattock.
- mcaleese — Mary (Patricia). born 1951, Irish politician; president of Ireland (1997–2011)
- mcmaster — John Bach, 1852–1932, U.S. historian and educator.
- medevacs — Plural form of medevac.
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- megacosm — (obsolete) A macrocosm.
- meniscal — Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
- mesaraic — (anatomy) mesenteric.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- meticais — Plural form of metical.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- minicabs — Plural form of minicab.
- minicars — Plural form of minicar.
- miracles — Plural form of miracle.
- miscalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of miscall.
- miscarry — to have a miscarriage of a fetus.
- misclaim — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- misclass — to assign to the wrong class
- mishnaic — the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.
- mismatch — to match badly or unsuitably.
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misspace — to space out wrongly
- mistcoat — (in house painting or interior decoration) a coat of thinner, sometimes pigmented, applied to a finish coat of paint to increase its luster.
- misteach — to teach wrongly or badly.
- mistrace — to trace incorrectly
- mistrack — To track incorrectly.
- mocassin — Alternative spelling of moccasin.
- moccasin — a heelless shoe made entirely of soft leather, as deerskin, with the sole brought up and attached to a piece of u -shaped leather on top of the foot, worn originally by the American Indians.
- molecast — the heap of earth excavated by a mole tunnelling underground
- mollusca — the phylum comprising the mollusks.
- moluccas — a group of islands in the Malay Archipelago, between Sulawesi (Celebes) and New Guinea. Capital: Amboina. Pop: 1 990 598 (2000). Area: about 74 505 sq km (28 766 sq miles)
- monarchs — a hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor.
- monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
- mosaical — of or relating to Moses or the writings, laws, and principles attributed to him: Mosaic ethics.
- moschate — having a musky smell.