8-letter words containing n, t, e, r, m
- remnants — a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
- remotion — the act of removing; removal.
- retronym — a term coined in modification of an original term that was used alone (as acoustic guitar instead of guitar ) to distinguish it from a term referring to a later development (as electric guitar ). Other examples of retronyms are snail mail and analog watch .
- rimstone — a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern.
- romanite — a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- rosemont — a town in central California, near Sacramento.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- rudiment — Usually, rudiments. the elements or first principles of a subject: the rudiments of grammar. a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something: the rudiments of a plan.
- ruminate — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- run time — 1. The elapsed time to perform a computation on a particular computer. 2. The amount of time a processor actually spent on a particular process and not on other processes or overhead (see time-sharing). 3. The period of time during which a program is being executed, as opposed to compile-time or load time. The term should be hyphenated when used as an adjective. 4. run-time support.
- santarem — a city in N Brazil, on the Amazon River.
- sortment — an assortment or classification
- stenmark — Ingemar ("Silent Swede") born 1956, Swedish Alpine skier.
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- t number — one of a series of calibrations of lens openings according to the intensity of the light actually transmitted by the lens. Symbol: T.
- t-number — one of a series of calibrations of lens openings according to the intensity of the light actually transmitted by the lens. Symbol: T.
- tarentum — ancient name of Taranto.
- terminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- terminer — a person or thing that limits or determines
- terminus — the end or extremity of anything.
- the morn — tomorrow
- theremin — a musical instrument with electronic tone generation, the pitch and tone volume being controlled by the distance between the player's hands and two metal rods serving as antennas.
- thermion — an ion emitted by incandescent material.
- timeworn — worn or impaired by time.
- timoneer — someone who steers a ship
- tone arm — the free-swinging bracket of a phonograph containing the pickup.
- towerman — Railroads. a person who works in a switch tower and, by means of a signal box, directs the movement of trains.
- tramline — a streetcar system.
- transume — to make an official transcription of
- trewsman — a Highlander
- trombone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)
- truename — (operating system) An undocumented DOS command to find the UNC name of a file or directory on a network drive.
- turkomen — Turkmenistan.
- tyramine — an amine, C 8 H 11 NO, abundant in ripe cheese as a breakdown product of tyrosine by removal of the carboxyl group (COOH).
- unmature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- untemper — to reverse the tempering of; to make (what was tempered) untempered; to soften (steel)
- virement — an administrative transfer of funds from one part of a budget to another
- wariment — caution
- waterman — a person who manages or works on a boat; boatman.
- watermen — Plural form of waterman.