8-letter words containing a, g, r, m
- grammage — the weight of paper expressed as grams per square metre
- grammars — Plural form of grammar.
- grammies — Plural form of grammy.
- grampian — a region in E Scotland. 3361 sq. mi. (8704 sq. km).
- grampies — Plural form of grampy.
- grandame — a grandmother.
- grandams — Plural form of grandam.
- grandmas — Plural form of grandma.
- grandmom — (US) Grandmother.
- grantham — a town in E England, in Lincolnshire: birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher. Pop: 34 592 (2001)
- grapheme — a minimal unit of a writing system.
- graphium — a writing stylus
- grasmere — a lake in Westmoreland, in NW England. 1 mile (1.6 km) long.
- grassman — Hermann Günther [her-mahn gyn-tuh r] /ˈhɛr mɑn ˈgün tər/ (Show IPA), 1809–77, German mathematician and linguist.
- gravamen — the part of an accusation that weighs most heavily against the accused; the substantial part of a charge or complaint.
- graymail — a means of preventing prosecution, as for espionage, by threatening to disclose government secrets during trial.
- gregatim — in flocks or crowds
- grid map — a map on which a network of horizontal and vertical lines are superimposed, for locating points
- grimaced — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- grimaces — Make a grimace.
- grimaldi — Joseph, 1779–1837, English actor, mime, and clown.
- grimdark — (fandom) Having a gloomy, dystopian atmosphere.
- guar gum — a plant, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, of the legume family, grown as a forage crop and for its seeds, which produce a gum (guar gum) used as a thickening agent and stabilizer in foods and pharmaceuticals and as sizing for paper and cloth.
- guisarme — a shafted weapon having as a head a curved, double-edged blade with a beak at the back.
- gunmaker — a person or company that makes guns.
- hemogram — a graphic record of the cellular elements of the blood.
- hexagram — a six-pointed starlike figure formed of two equilateral triangles placed concentrically with each side of a triangle parallel to a side of the other and on opposite sides of the center.
- hologram — a negative produced by exposing a high-resolution photographic plate, without camera or lens, near a subject illuminated by monochromatic, coherent radiation, as from a laser: when it is placed in a beam of coherent light a true three-dimensional image of the subject is formed.
- ideogram — a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
- idiogram — Karyogram.
- isograms — Plural form of isogram.
- jamnagar — a city in W Gujarat, in W central India.
- kilogram — a unit of mass equal to 1000 grams: the basic unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder kept in Sèvres, France. Abbreviation: kg.
- kirigami — the Japanese art or technique of cutting and folding paper into objects or designs.
- kymogram — the graphic record produced by a diagnostic kymograph.
- langmuir — Irving, 1881–1957, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- lexigram — (psychology) A symbol that represents a word but is not necessarily indicative of the object referenced by the word, used in studies of communication.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- logogram — a conventional, abbreviated symbol for a frequently recurring word or phrase, as the symbol & for the word and. Also called logograph [law-guh-graf, -grahf, log-uh-] /ˈlɔ gəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf, ˈlɒg ə-/ (Show IPA).
- long arm — a long pole fitted with any of various devices, as a hook or clamp, for performing tasks otherwise out of reach.
- macgyver — Alternative spelling of MacGyver.
- madrigal — a secular part song without instrumental accompaniment, usually for four to six voices, making abundant use of contrapuntal imitation, popular especially in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- mag card — Computers. a plastic or paper card with a magnetizable layer on which data can be recorded and from which data can be read.
- maggiore — Lake, a lake in N Italy and S Switzerland. 83 sq. mi. (215 sq. km).
- maghrebi — a native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.
- magicker — (fantasy) One who does magic; a sorcerer or magician.
- magister — Master; sir: -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
- magnetar — A neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field.
- magritte — René [French ruh-ney] /French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1898–1967, Belgian painter.
- mailgram — a telegram sent to a post office and subsequently printed and delivered by the post office to the addressee