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8-letter words containing a, d, m, i

  • myriapod — any arthropod of the group Myriapoda, having an elongated segmented body with numerous paired, jointed legs, formerly classified as a class comprising the centipedes and millipedes.
  • naderism — the philosophy and beliefs of consumerism and environmentalism preached by Ralph Nader
  • nomadism — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
  • nomadize — to live in the manner of a nomad.
  • numidian — an ancient country in N Africa, corresponding roughly to modern Algeria.
  • old maid — Disparaging and Offensive. an elderly or confirmed spinster.
  • olympiad — a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 b.c.
  • palmiped — a web-footed bird
  • paludism — malaria.
  • pandemia — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
  • pandemic — (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.
  • paradigm — Grammar. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme. a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
  • plaidman — a native of the Highlands of Scotland, being a person who wears plaid
  • plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
  • preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
  • pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
  • racemoid — racemic
  • radioman — a person who operates a radio.
  • radium a — a substance, formed by decay of radon, that gives rise to radium B.
  • radium b — an isotope of lead, formed by decay of radium A, that gives rise to radium C, which is an isotope of bismuth, from which radium D, radium E, and radium F, or polonium 210, are derived.
  • radium f — an isotope of polonium: polonium 210.
  • raimondi — Marcantonio [mahr-kan-toh-nee-oh;; Italian mahr-kahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌmɑr kænˈtoʊ niˌoʊ;; Italian ˌmɑr kɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), c1480–c1534, Italian engraver.
  • ram disk — (operating system, storage)   A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
  • ram-raid — A ram-raid is the crime of using a car to drive into and break a shop window in order to steal things from the shop.
  • re-admit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
  • remained — to continue in the same state; continue to be as specified: to remain at peace.
  • remedial — affording remedy; tending to remedy something.
  • salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
  • samizdat — a clandestine publishing system within the Soviet Union, by which forbidden or unpublishable literature was reproduced and circulated privately.
  • scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
  • schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
  • sea-maid — a mermaid.
  • semiarid — characterized by very little annual rainfall, usually from 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 cm): the struggle to raise vegetables in semiarid regions.
  • semibald — partly bald
  • semideaf — partly deaf
  • semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
  • sesamoid — shaped like a sesame seed, as certain small nodular bones and cartilages.
  • side arm — a weapon, as a pistol or sword, carried at the side or in the belt.
  • sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden
  • sim card — Subscriber Identity/Identification Module: a removable card inside a cell phone that stores data unique to the user, as an identification number, passwords, phone numbers, and messages.
  • sodamide — sodium amide.
  • sudarium — (in ancient Rome) a cloth, usually of linen, for wiping the face; handkerchief.
  • sympodia — an axis or stem that simulates a simple stem but is made up of the bases of a number of axes that arise successively as branches, one from another, as in the grapevine.
  • sysadmin — a computer system administrator
  • talmudic — of or relating to the Talmud.
  • tamarind — the pod of a large, tropical tree, Tamarindus indica, of the legume family, containing seeds enclosed in a juicy acid pulp that is used in beverages and food.
  • tameside — a unitary authority of NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 213 400 (2003 est). Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
  • the maid — Joan of Arc
  • tidemark — the point that something or someone has reached, receded below, or risen above: He has reached the tidemark of his prosperity.
  • tidesman — a Customs official at a port
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