8-letter words starting with me
- mephitis — (in nontechnical use) a noxious or pestilential exhalation from the earth, as poison gas.
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- mercator — Gerhardus [jer-hahr-duh s] /dʒərˈhɑr dəs/ (Show IPA), (Gerhard Kremer) 1512–94, Flemish cartographer and geographer.
- mercedes — a city in SW Uruguay, on the Río Negro.
- merchant — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- merchets — Plural form of merchet.
- merchild — a mythical creature with the upper body of a child and the lower body of a fish
- merciful — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- mercosur — a trading block composed of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with associate members Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; superseded in 2008 by the Union of South American Nations (Unasur or Unasul), by uniting with the Andean Community
- mercouri — Melina (məˈliːnə). 1925–94, Greek actress and politician: her films include Never on Sunday (1960); minister of culture (1981–85 and 1993–94)
- mercuric — of or containing mercury, especially in the bivalent state.
- meredith — George, 1828–1909, English novelist and poet.
- merengue — a ballroom dance of Dominican and Haitian origin, characterized by a stiff-legged, limping step.
- meresman — a man who decides on the exact boundaries of a parish, etc
- merfolks — Plural form of merfolk.
- mergence — to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
- mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
- meridian — a city in E Mississippi.
- merienda — a light meal esp. in the late afternoon
- meringue — merengue.
- meristem — embryonic tissue in plants; undifferentiated, growing, actively dividing cells.
- meristic — of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- meriting — Present participle of merit.
- mermaids — Plural form of mermaid.
- merodach — Marduk.
- merogony — the development of an embryo from egg fragments lacking the egg nucleus but having an introduced male nucleus.
- meronyms — Plural form of meronym.
- meronymy — (semantics) The relationship of being a constituent part or member of something; a system of meronyms.
- merriest — Superlative form of merry.
- merrilyn — a female given name.
- merrimac — a warship (originally the Union steamer Merrimack) that the Confederates converted into an ironclad, renamed the Virginia, and used against the Monitor in 1862 in the first battle between ironclads.
- merryman — a jester or zany
- mersalyl — a salt of sodium, C13H16HgNNaO6, which was formerly used as a diuretic
- mersenne — Marin [ma-ran] /maˈrɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1588–1648, French mathematician.
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- merwomen — Plural form of merwoman.
- merycism — a condition in which undigested food is regurgitated
- mesaraic — (anatomy) mesenteric.
- mescalin — Alternative form of mescaline.
- mesdames — a plural of madam.
- mesh bag — bag made of netting
- meshugah — Alternative form of meshugge.
- meshugas — craziness
- meshugga — crazy; insane.
- meshugge — Crazy, mad, senseless, insane.
- meshwork — meshed material or a structure of meshes; a network.
- mesially — Toward the central plane of a body with bilateral symmetry.
- mesmeric — produced by mesmerism; hypnotic.
- mesnalty — the estate of a mesne lord.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.