8-letter words containing a, e, m
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- auramine — a yellow, crystalline solid, C 17 H 22 ClN 3 , soluble in water, alcohol, and ether, used chiefly as a dye for paper and leather.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- automate — To automate a factory, office, or industrial process means to put in machines which can do the work instead of people.
- automize — To automate or automatize.
- autosome — any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
- averment — the act of averring.
- aviemore — a winter sports resort in Scotland, in Moray between the Monadhliath and Cairngorm Mountains. Pop: 2397 (2001)
- awesomer — (nonstandard) Comparative form of awesome.
- axilemma — the membrane surrounding the axon of a nerve fiber.
- axolemma — the membrane that encloses the axon of a nerve cell
- axonemal — of or relating to the axoneme
- axonemes — Plural form of axoneme.
- azoimide — hydrazoic acid.
- azotemia — the accumulation of nitrogenous substances in the blood, resulting from failure of the kidneys to remove them
- azotemic — the accumulation of abnormally large amounts of nitrogenous waste products in the blood, as in uremic poisoning.
- b-sample — a urine or blood sample used in doping tests in professional sports to confirm or invalidate the presence of banned substances in the first sample, the A-sample
- baalshem — a person who works miracles by calling upon the name of God, especially one of the German and Polish Jews of the 16th–19th centuries considered to be saintly and to possess magical powers.
- babeldom — a state of noisy confusion resembling that at Babel
- babelism — a confusion, particularly a noisy confusion, of speech or ideas
- back emf — an electromagnetic force appearing in an inductive circuit in such a direction as to oppose any change of current in the circuit
- bad time — inopportune moment
- bailment — a contractual delivery of goods in trust to a person for a specific purpose
- bailsmen — Plural form of bailsman.
- bakemeat — a pie
- ballgame — any game played with a ball
- balmiest — Superlative form of balmy.
- bandmate — a fellow member of a band
- bandsmen — Plural form of bandsman.
- bar game — any game or contest that takes place in a pub
- bar meal — a simple meal served in a bar
- bargeman — a man who operates, or works aboard, a barge
- bargemen — Plural form of bargeman.
- barometz — a type of Asian fern, Cibotium barometz, the woolly rhizoma of which is thought to resemble a lamb
- base map — an outline map on which data may be plotted
- basecamp — Alternative spelling of base camp.
- basement — The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
- basename — (file system) The name of a file which, in contrast to a pathname, does not mention any of the directories containing the file. Examples:
- bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
- batement — reduction; abatement
- baysmelt — topsmelt.
- beadsman — a person who prays for another's soul, esp one paid or fed for doing so
- beadsmen — Plural form of beadsman.
- beam sea — a sea striking the vessel at right angles to its keel.
- beamless — Not having a beam.
- beamline — (physics) The line traveled by a particle beam in an accelerator.
- beat man — district man.
- beaumont — a city in SE Texas. Pop: 112 434 (2003 est)
- becalmed — If a sailing ship is becalmed, it is unable to move because there is no wind.
- bechamel — a basic white sauce made of milk, butter, flour, and, sometimes, cream