8-letter words containing a, d, m
- becalmed — If a sailing ship is becalmed, it is unable to move because there is no wind.
- bedesman — beadsman
- bedframe — the framework of a bed
- bedlamer — a harp seal, beyond the beater stage but not yet mature.
- bedmaker — a person who constructs beds
- bemadden — to cause to become mad
- bemoaned — to express distress or grief over; lament: to bemoan one's fate.
- bermudas — a group of islands in the Atlantic, 580 miles (935 km) E of North Carolina: a British colony; resort. 19 sq. mi. (49 sq. km). Capital: Hamilton.
- biodrama — a drama based on the life of an actual person or persons.
- birdfarm — a place where birds are kept
- boardman — a member of a board
- bombarde — an alto wind instrument similar to the oboe or medieval shawm, used mainly in Breton traditional music
- bombload — (of a vehicle of war) the quantity of bombs being carried or able to be carried
- bondmaid — an unmarried female serf or slave
- bondsman — a person bound by bond to act as surety for another
- brambled — any prickly shrub belonging to the genus Rubus, of the rose family.
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- bridgman — Percy Williams. 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics
- cadreman — an officer or enlisted person in a military cadre.
- caladium — any of various tropical plants of the aroid genus Caladium, which are widely cultivated as potted plants for their colourful variegated foliage
- cambered — Having camber.
- cambodia — a country in SE Asia: became part of French Indochina in 1887; achieved self-government in 1949 and independence in 1953; civil war (1970–74) ended in victory for the Khmer Rouge, who renamed the country Kampuchea (1975) and carried out extreme-radical political and economic reforms resulting in a considerable reduction of the population; Vietnamese forces ousted the Khmer Rouge in 1979 and set up a pro-Vietnamese government who reverted (1981) to the name Cambodia; after Vietnamese withdrawal in 1989 a peace settlement with exiled factions was followed in 1993 by the adoption of a democratic monarchist constitution restoring Prince Sihanouk to the throne. The country contains the central plains of the Mekong River and the Cardamom Mountains in the SW. Official language: Khmer; French is also widely spoken. Currency: riel. Capital: Phnom Penh. Pop: 15 205 539 (2013 est). Area: 181 000 sq km (69 895 sq miles)
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- cameloid — a member of the camel family
- camisado — (formerly) an attack made under cover of darkness
- camisard — any French Protestant, living in the region of the Cévennes Mountains, who carried on a revolt against Louis XIV in the early part of the 18th century.
- camp bed — A camp bed is a small bed that you can fold up.
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- canadarm — a type of robotic arm, developed in Canada, used on space vehicles
- candyman — a drug-dealer, esp one who targets young people
- caodaism — an eclectic religion, originated in Cochin-China in 1926, combining Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucianist elements and affected to some extent by Christianity.
- cardamom — Cardamom is a spice. It comes from the seeds of a plant grown in Asia.
- cardamon — the aromatic seed capsules of a tropical Asian plant, Elettaria cardamomum, of the ginger family, used as a spice or condiment and in medicine.
- cardroom — a room for carding wool.
- ceramide — any of a class of biologically important compounds used as moisturizers in skin-care preparations
- chadarim — plural of cheder.
- chambord — a village in N central France: site of a famous Renaissance chateau
- chasidim — Hasidim
- clamored — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- climaxed — Simple past tense and past participle of climax.
- coadmire — to admire together
- cocamide — A mixture of amides of the fatty acids obtained from coconut oil, used in many surfactants.
- codename — Alternative spelling of code name.
- codomain — the set of values that a function is allowed to take
- combated — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- come and — to move towards a particular person or thing or accompany a person with some specified purpose
- comedial — a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.
- comedian — A comedian is an entertainer whose job is to make people laugh, by telling jokes or funny stories.
- commando — A commando is a group of soldiers who have been specially trained to carry out surprise attacks.
- commands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.