8-letter words containing a, e, m
- agrement — diplomatic approval of a country
- ahemeral — not constituting a full 24-hour day
- ahmose i — 1580–1557 b.c, founder of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
- ailments — Plural form of ailment.
- air mile — nautical mile
- air time — The airtime that something gets is the amount of time taken up with broadcasts about it.
- airdrome — An airdrome is a place or area where small aircraft can land and take off.
- airframe — the body of an aircraft, excluding its engines
- akeldama — Aceldama.
- akkerman — former name of Belgorod-Dnestrovsky.
- albumens — Plural form of albumen.
- albumose — any of a class of chemical compounds derived from albumins by the action of certain enzymes, as in digestion
- alchemic — a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
- alcimede — the mother of Jason.
- alcmaeon — a son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle who commanded the second expedition against Thebes. He killed his mother for sending his father to certain death and was driven mad by the Furies.
- alderman — In some parts of the United States and Canada, an alderman is a member of the governing body of a city.
- aldermen — Plural form of alderman.
- aldimine — (organic chemistry) An imine derived from an aldehyde; general formula RCH=NR.
- aldoxime — an oxime formed by reaction between hydroxylamine and an aldehyde
- aleichem — Sholom, real name Solomon Rabinowitz. 1859–1916, US Jewish writer, born in Russia. His works include Tevye the Milkman, which was adapted for the stage musical Fiddler on the Roof
- alemanni — a West Germanic people who settled in the 4th century ad between the Rhine, the Main, and the Danube
- alembert — Jean Le Rond [zhahn luh rawn] /ʒɑ̃ lə ˈrɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1717?–83, French mathematician, philosopher, and writer: associate of Diderot.
- alembics — Plural form of alembic.
- alienism — the study and treatment of mental illness
- aliments — that which nourishes; nutriment; food.
- alkermes — a Mediterranean liqueur made from brandy flavored with nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and other spices, and colored red with kermes or cochineal.
- all-time — You use all-time when you are comparing all the things of a particular type that there have ever been. For example, if you say that something is the all-time best, you mean that it is the best thing of its type that there has ever been.
- allelism — any of several forms of a gene, usually arising through mutation, that are responsible for hereditary variation.
- allemand — Misspelling of allemande.
- allomone — a chemical substance secreted externally by certain animals, such as insects, affecting the behaviour or physiology of another species detrimentally
- allosome — A sex chromosome that differs from an ordinary autosome in form, size, or behaviour.
- allow me — Some people say 'Allow me' as a polite way of offering to do something for someone.
- allozyme — any one of a number of different structural forms of the same enzyme coded for by a different allele
- almagest — a work on astronomy compiled by Ptolemy in the 2nd century ad containing a description of the geocentric system of the universe and a star catalogue
- almemars — bimah.
- almohade — a member of a group of puritanical Muslims, originally Berbers, who arose in S Morocco in the 12th century as a reaction against the corrupt Almoravides and who ruled Spain and all Maghrib from about 1147 to after 1213
- amabelle — a female given name.
- amadises — a knight-errant, model of the chivalric hero.
- amalthea — a nymph who brought up the infant Zeus on goats' milk
- amandine — a protein found in almonds
- amarelle — a variety of sour cherry that has pale red fruit and colourless juice
- amaretti — Italian almond biscuits
- amaretto — an Italian liqueur with a flavour of almonds
- amateurs — Plural form of amateur.
- amazedly — in an amazed manner
- ambedkar — Bhimrao Ramji [beem-rou rahm-jee] /ˈbim raʊ ˈrɑm dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1893–1956, Indian politician and jurist.
- amberina — a characteristic of a type of glassware known for its blended colours, containing amber at the base merging into red higher up the piece
- amberite — a powder made of guncotton, barium nitrate, and paraffin, which does not produce any smoke when ignited
- amberoid — a synthetic amber made by compressing pieces of amber and other resins together at a high temperature
- amberous — of, relating to or resembling amber