7-letter words containing m, i
- brutism — the characteristic actions of a brute
- bruxism — the habit of grinding the teeth, esp unconsciously
- bulimia — Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an illness in which a person has a very great fear of becoming fat, and so they make themselves vomit after eating.
- bulimic — If someone is bulimic, they are suffering from bulimia.
- bulimus — any of a genus of terrestrial molluscs with elongated spiral shells, commonly found in tropical America
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- bumming — a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
- bumping — to come more or less violently in contact with; collide with; strike: His car bumped a truck.
- bumpkin — If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.
- bushism — any apparently fatuous statement attributed to George W. Bush
- cabimas — a town in NW Venezuela, on the NE shore of Lake Maracaibo. Pop: 284 000 (2005 est)
- cacimbo — a heavy mist or drizzle that occurs in the Congo basin area, often accompanied by onshore winds.
- cadmium — Cadmium is a soft bluish-white metal that is used in the production of nuclear energy.
- caesium — a ductile silvery-white element of the alkali metal group that is the most electropositive metal. It occurs in pollucite and lepidolite and is used in photocells. The radioisotope caesium-137, with a half-life of 30.2 years, is used in radiotherapy. Symbol: Cs; atomic no: 55; atomic wt: 132.90543; valency: 1; relative density: 1.873; melting pt: 28.39±0.01°C; boiling pt: 671°C
- caimans — Plural form of caiman.
- cainism — the first son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel. Gen. 4.
- calcium — Calcium is a soft white element which is found in bones and teeth, and also in limestone, chalk, and marble.
- calming — soothing; tranquillizing
- camaieu — a cameo
- cambial — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- cambion — Lb mythology The offspring of an incubus and a human.
- cambism — cambistry
- cambist — a dealer or expert in foreign exchange
- cambium — a meristem that increases the girth of stems and roots by producing additional xylem and phloem
- cambrai — a town in NE France: textile industry: scene of a battle in which massed tanks were first used and broke through the German line (November, 1917). Pop: 33 738 (1999)
- cambria — Wales
- cambric — a fine white linen or cotton fabric
- camelid — of or relating to camels
- camilla — Roman Legend. a woman warrior who fought on the side of Turnus against Aeneas.
- camille — a feminine name
- camisia — a surplice
- cammies — camouflage.
- camming — Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.
- camogie — a form of hurling played by women
- campari — a bitter Italian aperitif, often mixed with soda water as a drink
- campily — in a campy manner
- camping — something that provides sophisticated, knowing amusement, as by virtue of its being artlessly mannered or stylized, self-consciously artificial and extravagant, or teasingly ingenuous and sentimental.
- campion — any of various caryophyllaceous plants of the genera Silene and Lychnis, having red, pink, or white flowers
- cariama — seriema.
- caricom — Caribbean Community and Common Market
- carmine — Carmine is a deep bright-red colour.
- casemix — the varied types of patients treated by a hospital or medical unit
- castism — Alt form casteism.
- catmill — An apparatus with several beams protruding from a central rotating pole, used to train fighting dogs by having them chase a cat or other small animal in circles.
- catmint — a Eurasian plant, Nepeta cataria, having spikes of purple-spotted white flowers and scented leaves of which cats are fond: family Lamiaeae (labiates)
- cc:mail — (tool, product) Commercial electronic mail software by Lotus Corporation for Microsoft Windows.
- cellsim — (application) A program for modelling populations of biological cells.
- cembali — Irregular plural form of cembalo.
- centime — a monetary unit of Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, French Polynesia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Mali, Mayotte, Morocco, New Caledonia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Switzerland, and Togo. It is worth one hundredth of their respective standard units
- centimo — monetary unit of Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela