8-letter words containing a, g, m, e
- mantegna — Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1431–1506, Italian painter and engraver.
- margaret — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “pearl.”.
- margelan — a city in E Uzbekistan, NW of Fergana.
- margents — (obsolete) Plural form of margent.
- margined — Having a margin.
- margrave — (formerly) the hereditary title of the rulers of certain European states.
- maritage — the right of a lord to choose the spouses of his wards
- marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- massaged — Simple past tense and past participle of massage.
- massager — the act or art of treating the body by rubbing, kneading, patting, or the like, to stimulate circulation, increase suppleness, relieve tension, etc.
- massages — Plural form of massage.
- masstige — noting or pertaining to goods that are perceived to have prestige or high style but are affordable for a wide range of customers: This five-dollar bottle of hand cream is aimed at the masstige market.
- maubeuge — a city in N France, on the Sambre River, near the Belgian border.
- mayaguez — a seaport in W Puerto Rico.
- mcteague — a novel (1899) by Frank Norris.
- meagered — Simple past tense and past participle of meager.
- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagrely — In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- meanings — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- measling — A form of delamination, or separation in a laminate material, resulting in a spotty appearance.
- medaling — a flat piece of metal, often a disk but sometimes a cross, star, or other form, usually bearing an inscription or design, issued to commemorate a person, action, or event, or given as a reward for bravery, merit, or the like: a gold medal for the best swimmer.
- megaband — (music, informal) A particularly successful band.
- megabase — A length of double-stranded DNA containing two million nucleotides, one million on each strand.
- megabits — Plural form of megabit.
- megabook — An extremely large book.
- megabuck — one million dollars.
- megabyte — 2 20 (1,048,576) bytes.
- megacity — a city having a population of one million or more.
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- megacosm — (obsolete) A macrocosm.
- megadeal — a large business transaction.
- megadebt — An enormous debt.
- megadont — macrodont.
- megadose — a dose many times the usual amount, as of a vitamin or drug.
- megadyne — a unit of force equal to one million dynes
- megafirm — A very large firm.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megagaea — one of the three primary zoogeographic areas of the earth including Europe, Africa, Asia, certain islands southeast of Asia, and the polar and temperate areas of North America
- megahurt — (computer slang, rare) megahertz.
- megalith — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- megamall — A megamall is a very large shopping area containing very many shops, cinemas, and restaurants.
- megaplex — a large building containing many movie theaters, usually more than a dozen.
- megapode — any of several large-footed, short-winged gallinaceous Australasian birds of the family Megapodiidae, typically building a compostlike mound of decaying vegetation as an incubator for their eggs.
- megastar — A very famous person, especially in the world of entertainment.
- megatons — Plural form of megaton.
- megavolt — a unit of electromotive force, equal to one million volts. Abbreviation: MV.
- megawatt — a unit of power, equal to one million watts. Abbreviation: MW.
- megillah — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.