8-letter words containing w, e, m
- lewisham — a borough of Greater London, England.
- limewash — A mixture of slaked lime in water.
- limewood — the wood of a linden.
- low beam — an automobile headlight beam providing short-range illumination of a road and intended chiefly for use in driving on the streets of cities, towns, etc.
- lukewarm — moderately warm; tepid.
- madwomen — Plural form of madwoman.
- mae west — Benjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
- make way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- makework — Alternative form of make-work.
- male cow — a bull.
- manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
- manswear — (transitive, UK dialectal) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- matthews — one of the four Evangelists, a customs collector from Capernaum, summoned to be one of the 12 apostles: originally called Levi. Matt. 9:9–13.
- mawmetry — idolatry
- maxwells — Plural form of maxwell.
- may wine — a punch consisting typically of Alsatian, Moselle, or Rhine wine, flavored with woodruff.
- mayweeds — Plural form of mayweed.
- mcdowell — Ephraim, 1771–1830, U.S. surgeon.
- mealworm — the larva of any of several darkling beetles of the genus Tenebrio, which infests granaries and is used as food for birds and animals.
- meatware — Less common synonym for wetware.
- megawatt — a unit of power, equal to one million watts. Abbreviation: MW.
- mellowed — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
- mellower — soft, sweet, and full-flavored from ripeness, as fruit.
- mellowly — In a mellow manner.
- meltdown — network meltdown
- menswear — men's wear.
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- merwomen — Plural form of merwoman.
- meshwork — meshed material or a structure of meshes; a network.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- midwater — The part of a body of water near neither the bottom nor the surface.
- midwifed — (rare) Simple past tense and past participle of midwife More commonly midwived.
- midwives — Plural form of midwife.
- mildewed — Plant Pathology. a disease of plants, characterized by a cottony, usually whitish coating on the surface of affected parts, caused by any of various fungi.
- milkweed — any of several plants that secrete a milky juice or latex, especially those of the genus Asclepias, as A. syriaca. Compare milkweed family.
- millwell — Altform milwell.
- mindware — The mental knowledge and procedures that a person uses to solve problems or make decisions.
- mindwipe — (transitive, science fiction) To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves an viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.
- minnewit — Peter, Minuit, Peter.
- misthrew — Simple past form of misthrow.
- miswired — Wired incorrectly.
- miswrite — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- miswrote — to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe: Write your name on the board.
- moonwise — (nonstandard) Anticlockwise.
- muzorewa — Abel (Tendekayi) (ˈeibəl) 1925–2010, Zimabwean Methodist bishop and politician; president of the African National Council (1971–85). He was one of the negotiators of an internal settlement (1978–79); prime minister of Rhodesia (1979)
- new chum — a recent British immigrant
- new math — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- new moon — the moon either when in conjunction with the sun or soon after, being either invisible or visible only as a slender crescent.
- new-mint — to mint or coin afresh.