8-letter words that end in a
- me-media — a collective term for online services that allow a user to post his or her own content, such as blogs, photographs, personal profiles, etc, on the internet
- meat tea — high tea.
- mechitza — a screen in a synagogue separating men and women
- megagaea — one of the three primary zoogeographic areas of the earth including Europe, Africa, Asia, certain islands southeast of Asia, and the polar and temperate areas of North America
- melanoma — any of several types of skin tumors characterized by the malignant growth of melanocytes.
- melaxuma — a disease of trees, especially walnuts, characterized by an inky-black liquid oozing from the affected twigs, branches, and trunk, and by bark cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Dothiorella gregaria.
- melodica — A wind instrument with a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds, and a mouthpiece at one end.
- memnonia — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a light region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- mens rea — a criminal intent.
- merienda — a light meal esp. in the late afternoon
- meshugga — crazy; insane.
- mesoglea — the noncellular, gelatinous material between the inner and outer body walls of a coelenterate or sponge.
- mesosoma — (zoology) The middle part of the body, or tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts (the other two being the prosoma and the metasoma), bearing the legs and (in winged insects) the wings.
- messenia — a division of ancient Greece, in the SW Peloponnesus: an important center of Mycenaean culture.
- metabola — (in the plural, entomology) Insects that metamorphose.
- metadata — A set of data that describes and gives information about other data.
- metanira — queen of Eleusis, who took Demeter in to nurse her child.
- metanoia — a profound, usually spiritual, transformation; conversion.
- 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.
- micropia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- microtia — A congenital deformity where the pinna (external ear) is underdeveloped.
- milarepa — (tool) A Perl BNF parser generator by Jeffrey Kegler <[email protected]>. Milarepa takes a source grammar written in a mixture of BNF and Perl and generates Perl source, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses the language described by the grammar. Milarepa is not restricted to LRn grammars, and the parse logic follows directly from the BNF. It handles ambiguous grammars, ambiguous tokens (tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and allows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammar may not be left recursive. The input must be divided into sentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixed distinction between terminals and non-terminals, that is, a symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side of a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a single Perl program. Version: Prototype 1.0. Posted to comp.lang.perl. The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.
- miliaria — an inflammatory disease of the skin, located about the sweat glands, marked by the formation of vesicles or papules resembling millet seeds; prickly heat.
- millenia — Misspelling of millennia.
- miltonia — any of various epiphytic tropical American orchids of the genus Miltonia, having sprays of showy, flat, variously colored flowers.
- minneola — a juicy, pear-shaped variety of tangelo.
- mint tea — infusion of mint leaves
- miracula — An implementation of a subset of Miranda by Stefan Kahrs <[email protected]>, LFCS, no modules or files. Can be interactively switched between eager and lazy evaluation. Portable source in C from the author.
- missoula — a city in W Montana.
- ml-linda — U Edinburgh, under development.
- modjeska — Helena [huh-ley-nuh] /həˈleɪ nə/ (Show IPA), (Helena Opid Modrzejewska) 1840–1909, Polish actress, in U.S. after 1876.
- mokopuna — (NZ) In M\u0101ori culture, grandchildren, or sometimes children generally.
- moldavia — a region in NE Romania: formerly a principality that united with Wallachia to form Romania. Capital: Jassy.
- mollusca — the phylum comprising the mollusks.
- momoyama — Azuchi-Momoyama.
- monclova — a city in NE Mexico.
- mongolia — a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
- monrovia — a republic in W Africa: founded by freed American slaves 1822. About 43,000 sq. mi. (111,000 sq. km). Capital: Monrovia.
- monstera — any of various tropical American climbing plants belonging to the genus Monstera, of the arum family, especially M. deliciosa, having split or perforated leaves and often grown as a houseplant.
- montaria — a Brazilian canoe made of a single piece of timber
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- montilla — a dry, rather bitter wine of Spain.
- moratuwa — a city in W Sri Lanka.
- mordovia — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
- motorola — Motorola, Inc.
- moussaka — a baked dish consisting of layers of sautéed slices of eggplant and ground lamb usually flavored with tomatoes, onions, and cinnamon, and covered with a custard sauce sprinkled with grated cheese.
- moyamoya — (medicine) A disease in which certain arteries in the brain are constricted.
- mozzetta — a short cape that covers the shoulders and can be buttoned over the breast, and to which a hood is attached, worn by the pope and by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and other dignitaries.
- mridanga — an ancient drum of India shaped like a long conical barrel with two tuned heads of different sizes.