8-letter words containing n, t, e, r, m
- maternal — of, pertaining to, having the qualities of, or befitting a mother: maternal instincts.
- mcintire — Samuel, 1757–1811, U.S. architect and woodcarver.
- mcintyre — James Francis Aloysius, 1886–1979, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: cardinal from 1953; archbishop of Los Angeles 1948–70.
- mentmore — a mansion in Mentmore in Buckinghamshire: built by Sir Joseph Paxton in the 19th century for the Rothschild family; now owned by the Maharishi University of Natural Law
- mentored — a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
- mentoree — One being mentored.
- merchant — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- meriting — Present participle of merit.
- mesotron — (no longer in technical use) meson.
- metanira — queen of Eleusis, who took Demeter in to nurse her child.
- metering — an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
- minarets — Plural form of minaret.
- minister — a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
- minorite — Friar Minor.
- minsters — Plural form of minster.
- minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
- misenter — to enter incorrectly
- misentry — an incorrect or mistaken entry
- misinter — to bury wrongly
- mitering — the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- monetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- 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.
- monsters — Plural form of monster.
- monstery — Resembling a monster.
- monterey — a city in W California, on Monterey Bay: the capital of California until 1847.
- monteria — a city in N Colombia.
- montreal — a seaport in S Quebec, in E Canada, on an island (Montreal Island) in the St. Lawrence.
- montreux — a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)
- montrose — James Graham, Marquis of, 1612–50, Scottish supporter of Charles I.
- mordents — Plural form of mordent.
- motioner — One who makes a motion; a mover.
- motormen — Plural form of motorman.
- muenster — a white, semisoft, mild cheese made from whole milk.
- mutineer — a person who mutinies.
- nefertem — Ptah, as the personification of the lotus that keeps Ra alive with its fragrance.
- nim tree — neem (def 2).
- nonmetro — Nonmetropolitan.
- noometry — a term used by the satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock to mean 'measurement of the mind'
- numerate — to represent numbers by symbols.
- on merit — If you judge something or someone on merit or on their merits, your judgment is based on what you notice when you consider them, rather than on things that you know about them from other sources.
- onstream — Being produced.
- ornament — an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part: architectural ornaments.
- orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
- parament — a decoration for a room, as a tapestry.
- permeant — permeating; pervading.
- peterman — a safecracker.
- ramentum — a scraping, shaving, or particle.
- recement — any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- regiment — Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
- remanent — remaining; left behind.