8-letter words containing a, m, p
- lampwork — (glassblowing) A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
- lampyrid — any of several beetles of the family Lampyridae, comprising the fireflies.
- lempiras — Plural form of lempira.
- lip balm — salve for the lips
- lipaemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- lipaemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- lipomata — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lippmann — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1845–1921, French physicist: Nobel Prize 1908.
- lymphoma — a tumor arising from any of the cellular elements of lymph nodes.
- macropod — A plant-eating marsupial mammal of an Australasian family that comprises the kangaroos and wallabies.
- mag tape — a magnetic tape used for recording data.
- mageship — the role or office of a mage
- maildrop — A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.
- maladapt — To adapt badly; to exhibit maladaptation.
- malapert — unbecomingly bold or saucy.
- malaphor — (rare neologism) An idiom blend: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing a nonsensical result.
- malaprop — Mrs. a character in Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), noted for her misapplication of words.
- malpighi — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- man page — Unix manual page
- man-trap — an outdoor trap set for humans, as to snare poachers or trespassers.
- manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
- maniples — Plural form of maniple.
- manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
- manscape — A view of a group of people.
- mantraps — Plural form of mantrap.
- map onto — to fit in with or correspond to
- mapepire — (Trinidad and Tobago) The venomous snake Lachesis muta.
- mapmaker — a person who makes maps; cartographer.
- mappable — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- mappings — Plural form of mapping.
- maricopa — a member of a North American Indian people of south-central Arizona.
- mariposa — any lily of the genus Calochortus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having tuliplike flowers of various colors.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- marry up — to join
- marsport — a spoilsport
- marsupia — Plural form of marsupium.
- marzipan — a confection made of almonds reduced to a paste with sugar and often molded into various forms, usually diminutive fruits and vegetables.
- match up — pair
- match-up — a pairing or combining; linkage: a match-up of federal funds with state aid.
- matchups — Plural form of matchup.
- mateship — the state of being a mate.
- mayapple — American plant
- maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
- meat pie — pastry containing meat
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- 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.