6-letter words containing a, m, e
- flamed — Cooked or seared over open flames.
- flamen — (in ancient Rome) a priest.
- flamer — burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor.
- flames — burning gas or vapor, as from wood or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor.
- fleams — Plural form of fleam.
- foamed — Simple past tense and past participle of foam.
- foamer — a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
- foeman — an enemy in war.
- framed — (of a picture or similar) held in a frame.
- framer — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- frames — Plural form of frame.
- fumage — a tax payable to the king for each hearth in every house owned by a person not exempt from church taxes and poor taxes.
- gagmen — Plural form of gagman.
- gambet — Any bird of the genus Totanus; a tattler.
- gamble — to play at any game of chance for money or other stakes.
- gamely — in a game or plucky manner: They struggled gamely.
- gamers — Plural form of gamer.
- gamest — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gamesy — sporty; keen on sport
- gamete — a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
- gamgee — (UK, dialect) cotton wool.
- gamier — having the tangy flavor or odor of game: I like the gamy taste of venison.
- gamine — a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
- gammed — Simple past tense and past participle of gam.
- gammer — an old woman.
- gamone — any chemical substance secreted by a gamete that attracts another gamete during sexual reproduction
- gasmen — Plural form of gasman.
- gemara — the section of the Talmud consisting essentially of commentary on the Mishnah.
- gemmae — a bud.
- gemman — (archaic) gentleman.
- german — of or relating to Germany, its inhabitants, or their language.
- glamer — glamour.
- gleams — Plural form of gleam.
- gleamy — gleaming.
- grames — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grame.
- gramme — a metric unit of mass or weight equal to 15.432 grains; one thousandth of a kilogram. Abbreviation: g.
- guemal — huemul.
- h-beam — an I-beam having flanges the same width as its web, or connecting vertical section.
- haemal — Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels.
- haemin — Alternative spelling of hemin.
- haemo- — denoting blood
- hakeem — a male given name.
- hakmem — (publication) /hak'mem/ MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972). A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere. (The title of the memo really is "HAKMEM", which is a 6-letterism for "hacks memo".) Some of them are very useful techniques, powerful theorems, or interesting unsolved problems, but most fall into the category of mathematical and computer trivia. Here is a sampling of the entries (with authors), slightly paraphrased: Item 41 (Gene Salamin): There are exactly 23,000 prime numbers less than 2^18. Item 46 (Rich Schroeppel): The most *probable* suit distribution in bridge hands is 4-4-3-2, as compared to 4-3-3-3, which is the most *evenly* distributed. This is because the world likes to have unequal numbers: a thermodynamic effect saying things will not be in the state of lowest energy, but in the state of lowest disordered energy. Item 81 (Rich Schroeppel): Count the magic squares of order 5 (that is, all the 5-by-5 arrangements of the numbers from 1 to 25 such that all rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the same number). There are about 320 million, not counting those that differ only by rotation and reflection. Item 154 (Bill Gosper): The myth that any given programming language is machine independent is easily exploded by computing the sum of powers of 2. If the result loops with period = 1 with sign +, you are on a sign-magnitude machine. If the result loops with period = 1 at -1, you are on a twos-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, including the beginning, you are on a ones-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, not including the beginning, your machine isn't binary - the pattern should tell you the base. If you run out of memory, you are on a string or bignum system. If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. But the very ability to trap overflow is machine dependent. By this strategy, consider the universe, or, more precisely, algebra: Let X = the sum of many powers of 2 = ...111111 (base 2). Now add X to itself: X + X = ...111110. Thus, 2X = X - 1, so X = -1. Therefore algebra is run on a machine (the universe) that is two's-complement. Item 174 (Bill Gosper and Stuart Nelson): 21963283741 is the only number such that if you represent it on the PDP-10 as both an integer and a floating-point number, the bit patterns of the two representations are identical. Item 176 (Gosper): The "banana phenomenon" was encountered when processing a character string by taking the last 3 letters typed out, searching for a random occurrence of that sequence in the text, taking the letter following that occurrence, typing it out, and iterating. This ensures that every 4-letter string output occurs in the original. The program typed BANANANANANANANA.... We note an ambiguity in the phrase, "the Nth occurrence of." In one sense, there are five 00's in 0000000000; in another, there are nine. The editing program TECO finds five. Thus it finds only the first ANA in BANANA, and is thus obligated to type N next. By Murphy's Law, there is but one NAN, thus forcing A, and thus a loop. An option to find overlapped instances would be useful, although it would require backing up N - 1 characters before seeking the next N-character string. Note: This last item refers to a Dissociated Press implementation. See also banana problem. HAKMEM also contains some rather more complicated mathematical and technical items, but these examples show some of its fun flavour. HAKMEM is available from MIT Publications as a TIFF file.
- hamate — hook-shaped.
- hamble — (obsolete, transitive) To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
- hamden — a town in S Connecticut.
- hameln — a city in N central Germany, on the Weser River: scene of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
- hametz — a food forbidden for use by Jews during the festival of Passover, especially a baked food, as bread or cake, made with leaven or a leavening agent.
- hamite — a descendant of Ham. Gen. 10:1, 6–20.
- hamlet — (italics) a tragedy (first printed 1603) by Shakespeare.