8-letter words containing a, m, o, r, e
- paroemia — a proverb; an axiom
- passmore — George. Born 1943, a British artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with Gilbert Proesch
- pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pomander — a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc.
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- premolar — situated in front of the molar teeth.
- premoral — of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
- proseman — a writer of prose
- pyoderma — any skin eruption characterized by pustules or the formation of pus
- racemoid — racemic
- racemose — Botany. having the form of a raceme. arranged in racemes.
- racemous — racemose.
- ramulose — having many small branches.
- randomer — an unspecified person of no importance
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- ransomer — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- raw mode — (operating system) A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system. Systems that make this distinction for a disk file are generally regarded as broken. Compare rare mode, cooked mode.
- rearmost — farthest in the rear; last.
- reformat — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- rehoboam — the successor of Solomon and the first king of Judah, reigned 922?–915? b.c. I Kings 11:43.
- remolade — rémoulade.
- renogram — a kidney scan monitoring the throughput by the kidney of a radioactive chemical injected into the bloodstream
- repo man — a person who is employed to take back or repossess property, esp because of failure to make payments under a hire-purchase agreement
- rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
- rolamite — (sometimes initial capital letter) an almost frictionless mechanical device consisting of a flexible metal band formed in an S-shaped loop around moving rollers.
- romancer — a novel, movie, or genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love or begin a romantic relationship (often used attributively): We knew it was a romance, so we were expecting a happy ending. Romance novels are popular escapist entertainment.
- romanite — a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- romanize — to make Roman Catholic.
- rombauer — Irma von Starkloff [stahrk-lawf,, ‐lof] /ˈstɑrk lɔf,, ‐lɒf/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, U.S. cooking expert and cookbook writer.
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- roommate — a person who is assigned to share or shares a room or apartment with another or others.
- rosemary — an evergreen shrub, Rosmarinus officinalis, of the mint family, native to the Mediterranean region, having leathery, narrow leaves and pale-blue, bell-shaped flowers, used as a seasoning and in perfumery and medicine: a traditional symbol of remembrance.
- rosemead — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- sagamore — (among the American Indians of New England) a chief or leader.
- saleroom — Chiefly British. salesroom (def 2).
- san remo — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Riviera: resort.
- scarmoge — a skirmish or minor conflict
- scleroma — a tumorlike hardening of tissue.
- sea room — unobstructed space at sea in which a vessel can be easily maneuvered or navigated.
- seadrome — a floating airdrome serving as an intermediate or emergency landing place for aircraft flying over water.
- shoreman — a person who lives on the shore
- slalomer — a person who slaloms
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.