8-letter words containing a, d, e, m
- grandame — a grandmother.
- grimaced — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- halidome — a holy place, as a church or sanctuary.
- hammered — shaped, formed, or ornamented by a metalworker's hammer: a hammered bowl of brass; hammered gold.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.
- handmade — made by hand, rather than by machine: the luxury of handmade shoes.
- handsome — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- handymen — Plural form of handyman.
- headlamp — headlight.
- headmark — a characteristic
- headmost — most advanced; foremost.
- headroom — Nautical. the clear space between two decks.
- headsman — a public executioner who beheads condemned persons.
- headsmen — Plural form of headsman.
- hebdomad — the number seven.
- heimdall — the god of dawn and light.
- hematoid — hemoid.
- herdsman — a herder; the keeper of a herd, especially of cattle or sheep.
- homeland — one's native land.
- homemade — made or prepared at home, locally, or by the maker's own efforts: The restaurant's pastry is homemade. Breakfast at the farmhouse always meant homemade preserves.
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- hreidmar — (in the Volsunga Saga) the father of Fafnir, Otter, and Regin. He demanded wergild from the gods for killing Otter, and was killed by Fafnir when he got it.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- idea man — a person who is capable of and responsible for providing original ideas.
- idealism — the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc.
- ideogram — a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
- imblazed — Simple past tense and past participle of imblaze.
- imitated — Simple past tense and past participle of imitate.
- impacted — tightly or immovably wedged in.
- impaired — weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.
- imparted — Simple past tense and past participle of impart.
- impasted — Simple past tense and past participle of impaste.
- indamine — any of a series of basic organic compounds, the simplest having the formula C 12 H 11 N 3 , which form bluish and greenish salts, used in the manufacture of dyes.
- inflamed — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- inseamed — Simple past tense and past participle of inseam.
- jemadars — Plural form of jemadar.
- jeremiad — a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.
- lamented — mourned for, as a person who is dead: Our late lamented friend.
- landmine — an explosive charge concealed just under the surface of the ground or of a roadway, designed to be detonated by pressure, proximity of a vehicle or person, etc.
- laomedon — a king of Troy and the father of Priam, for whom the walls of Troy were built by Apollo and Poseidon.
- leadsman — a sailor who sounds with a lead line.
- leadsmen — Plural form of leadsman.
- lemonade — a beverage consisting of lemon juice, sweetener, and water, sometimes carbonated.
- like mad — mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- limnaeid — any snail of the family Limnaeidae
- lodesman — a person who steers a ship
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- machined — Simple past tense and past participle of machine.
- macramed — an elaborately patterned lacelike webbing made of hand-knotted cord, yarn, or the like, and used for wall decorations, hanging baskets, garments, accessories, etc.
- macready — William Charles, 1793–1873, English actor.