8-letter words containing a, m, t
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- stickman — croupier (def 1).
- stigmata — a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
- stillman — a man who is employed to operate a still
- stockman — U.S. and Australia. a person who raises livestock.
- stomachs — Anatomy, Zoology. a saclike enlargement of the alimentary canal, as in humans and certain animals, forming an organ for storing, diluting, and digesting food. such an organ or an analogous portion of the alimentary canal when divided into two or more sections or parts. any one of these sections.
- stomachy — paunchy; having a prominent stomach.
- stomatal — of, relating to, or of the nature of a stoma.
- stomatic — pertaining to the mouth.
- stomato- — indicating the mouth or a mouthlike part
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- stoneman — a stonecutter or stoneworker.
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- stramash — an uproar; disturbance.
- strawman — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
- streamer — something that streams: streamers of flame.
- striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter in the brain which controls movement and balance
- stromata — Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- stumpage — standing timber with reference to its value.
- stuntman — a man who substitutes for an actor in scenes requiring hazardous or acrobatic feats.
- sumatran — a large island in the W part of Indonesia. 164,147 sq. mi. (425,141 sq. km).
- summated — to add together; total; sum up.
- surf mat — a small inflatable rubber mattress used to ride on waves
- sweetman — (in the Caribbean) a man kept by a woman
- symantec — (company) Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
- symbmath — (mathematics, tool) A small symbolic mathematics package for MS-DOS which can learn new facts.
- sympathy — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
- sympatry — the occurrence of sympatric organisms
- symplast — the continuous system of protoplasts, linked by plasmodesmata and bounded by the cell wall
- syntagma — an element that enters into a syntagmatic relationship.
- tablemat — a small mat used on a table to protect the surface of the table from the plate and from food
- tablinum — (in an ancient Roman house) a large, open room at the side of the peristyle farthest from the main entrance.
- tachisme — action painting (def 1).
- tacksman — a leaseholder, esp a tenant in the Highlands who sublets
- tag team — a team of two wrestlers who compete one at a time against either member of another such team, the wrestlers in the ring changing places with those outside by tagging them.
- tag-team — designating or having to do with a form of professional wrestling in which two-member teams compete, with teammates alternating in the ring
- taghairm — a form of divination once practised in the Highlands of Scotland
- tagmemic — of or relating to tagmemes.
- taillamp — the rear light of a motor vehicle
- take aim — to position or direct (a firearm, ball, arrow, rocket, etc.) so that, on firing or release, the discharged projectile will hit a target or travel along a certain path.
- talesman — a person summoned as one of the tales.
- talisman — a stone, ring, or other object, engraved with figures or characters supposed to possess occult powers and worn as an amulet or charm.
- talktime — the amount of time for which a subscriber can use a mobile-phone network
- tallyman — a person who tallies or keeps account of something.
- talmudic — of or relating to the Talmud.
- tamandua — a tree-dwelling, tropical American anteater, Tamandua tetradactyla, having a prehensile tail, four-clawed forelimbs, and coarse, tan hair with black markings on the trunk.
- tamanoir — a large anteater of Central and South America, Myrmecophaga tridactyla
- tamarack — an American larch, Larix laricina, of the pine family, having a reddish-brown bark and crowded clusters of blue-green needles and yielding a useful timber.
- tamarind — the pod of a large, tropical tree, Tamarindus indica, of the legume family, containing seeds enclosed in a juicy acid pulp that is used in beverages and food.
- tamarisk — any Old World tropical plant of the genus Tamarix, especially T. gallica, an ornamental Mediterranean shrub or small tree having slender, feathery branches.