8-letter words containing t, e, n, a, i, m
- linament — (surgery) lint, especially when made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.
- luminate — (obsolete) To illuminate.
- magnetic — of or relating to a magnet or magnetism.
- 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.
- mantinea — an ancient city in S Greece, in Arcadia: battles 362 b.c., 223 b.c.
- mantises — Plural form of mantis.
- marinate — to steep (food) in a marinade.
- 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.
- martinet — a strict disciplinarian, especially a military one.
- martinez — a town in W California.
- masonite — A type of hardboard formed using wooden chips and blasting them into long fibers with steam and then forming them into boards.
- matinees — Plural form of matinee.
- matiness — sociable; friendly: a matey chat.
- meantime — the intervening time: The party is Tuesday, but in the meantime I have to shop and prepare the food.
- medicant — a healing substance; medicine; remedy.
- melanist — a melanistic person
- melanite — a deep black variety of andradite garnet.
- mentalis — (muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin.
- metaling — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- metanira — queen of Eleusis, who took Demeter in to nurse her child.
- metanoia — a profound, usually spiritual, transformation; conversion.
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.
- miniated — Simple past tense and past participle of miniate.
- mint tea — infusion of mint leaves
- mintages — Plural form of mintage.
- minutiae — Usually, minutiae. precise details; small or trifling matters: the minutiae of his craft.
- misagent — a bad agent
- misatone — to atone wrongly or improperly
- mistaken — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
- mitnaged — an orthodox opponent of Chassidism
- mixtecan — a branch of a family of American Indian languages spoken in central Mexico
- monazite — a reddish- or yellowish-brown mineral, a phosphate of cerium and lanthanum, (Ce,La)PO 4 : the principal ore of thorium.
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- neumatic — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- nizamate — the position held or territory governed by a Nizam.
- nominate — to propose (someone) for appointment or election to an office.
- ptomaine — any of a class of foul-smelling nitrogenous substances produced by bacteria during putrefaction of animal or plant protein: formerly thought to be toxic.
- romanite — a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- seminate — disseminated; scattered; strewn
- smaltine — a white mineral ore of cobalt
- somniate — to dream
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- steinman — David Barnard, 1886–1960, U.S. civil engineer: specialist in bridge design and construction.
- terminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- thiamine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble compound of the vitamin-B complex, containing a thiazole and a pyrimidine group, C 12 H 17 ClN 4 OS, essential for normal functioning of the nervous system, a deficiency of which results chiefly in beriberi and other nerve disorders: occurring in many natural sources, as green peas, liver, and especially the seed coats of cereal grains, the commercial product of which is chiefly synthesized in the form of its chloride (thiamine chloride or thiamine hydrochloride) for therapeutic administration, or in nitrate form (thiamine mononitrate) for enriching flour mixes.
- tidesman — a Customs official at a port