8-letter words containing as
- matgrass — widespread perennial European grass with dense tufts of bristly leaves, characteristic of peaty moors
- matthias — a disciple chosen to take the place of Judas Iscariot as one of the apostles. Acts 1:23–26.
- mattrass — a rounded, long-necked glass container, formerly used for distilling and dissolving substances.
- mazurkas — Plural form of mazurka.
- mcmaster — John Bach, 1852–1932, U.S. historian and educator.
- measlier — Comparative form of measly.
- measling — A form of delamination, or separation in a laminate material, resulting in a spotty appearance.
- measured — ascertained or apportioned by measure: The race was over the course of a measured mile.
- measurer — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- measures — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- megabase — A length of double-stranded DNA containing two million nucleotides, one million on each strand.
- megastar — A very famous person, especially in the world of entertainment.
- meshugas — craziness
- mestizas — Plural form of mestiza.
- metasoma — the posterior part of an arachnid's abdomen (opisthosoma) that never carries appendages
- miasmata — noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
- miasmous — miasmal
- mikasuki — a member of an American Indian people, formerly part of the Creek Confederacy and surviving chiefly as one of the two branches of the Muskogean family represented among the Florida Seminoles.
- militias — Plural form of militia.
- milpitas — a town in W California.
- misassay — to assay attempt wrongly or unsuccessfully
- misclass — to assign to the wrong class
- mishigas — Craziness; silliness; tomfoolery; nonsense.
- mishmash — a confused mess; hodgepodge; jumble.
- 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.
- mohallas — Plural form of mohalla.
- molasses — a thick syrup produced during the refining of sugar or from sorghum, varying from light to dark brown in color.
- molecast — the heap of earth excavated by a mole tunnelling underground
- 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)
- momparas — Plural form of mompara.
- monardas — Plural form of monarda.
- monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
- monastir — Bitola
- monotask — to perform one task at a time
- moonbase — (scifi) A base located on a moon.
- morasses — An area of muddy or boggy ground.
- mosasaur — any of several extinct carnivorous marine lizards from the Cretaceous Period, having the limbs modified into broad, webbed paddles.
- ms-basic — Microsoft Basic
- mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
- musquash — Chiefly British. the fur of the muskrat.
- mut dash — a dash equal in length to one side of an em quad; em dash.
- myalgias — pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism.
- myelomas — Plural form of myeloma.
- myoblast — any of the cells derived from the mesoderm in the vertebrate embryo that develop into muscle tissue.
- myospasm — A sudden, involuntary spasmodic contraction of a muscle.
- nachlass — remains (sense 4)
- nagasaki — a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan: second military use of the atomic bomb August 9, 1945.
- nakasone — Yasuhiro [yah-soo-hee-raw] /ˈyɑ sʊˈhi rɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1918, Japanese political leader: prime minister 1982–87.
- namaskar — Respectful greetings.