8-letter words containing a, m, t
- bailment — a contractual delivery of goods in trust to a person for a specific purpose
- bakemeat — a pie
- balmiest — Superlative form of balmy.
- bandmate — a fellow member of a band
- baptisms — Plural form of baptism.
- barometz — a type of Asian fern, Cibotium barometz, the woolly rhizoma of which is thought to resemble a lamb
- basement — The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
- bashment — (slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
- batement — reduction; abatement
- bath mat — a mat or washable rug used to stand on when entering or leaving a bath.
- bathmats — Plural form of bathmat.
- bathmism — a hypothetical growth-force, once thought to animate living beings
- bathroom — A bathroom is a room in a house that contains a bath or shower, a washbasin, and sometimes a toilet.
- batinism — a secret movement in Islam, often associated with Ismaʿili Shiʿism.
- batwoman — a female servant in any of the armed forces
- baysmelt — topsmelt.
- beat man — district man.
- beaumont — a city in SE Texas. Pop: 112 434 (2003 est)
- beermats — Plural form of beermat.
- belt man — a worker responsible for the inspection, maintenance, and repair of machine belts.
- beltrami — Eugenio [e-oo-je-nyaw] /ˌɛ uˈdʒɛ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1900, Italian mathematician.
- bergamot — a small Asian spiny rutaceous tree, Citrus bergamia, having sour pear-shaped fruit
- best man — The best man at a wedding is the man who assists the bridegroom.
- betacism — a type of speech impediment where the b sound is excessive
- betjeman — Sir John. 1906–84, English poet, noted for his nostalgic and humorous verse and essays and for his concern for the preservation of historic buildings, esp of the Victorian era. Poet laureate (1972–84)
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bit mask — (programming) A pattern of binary values which is combined with some value using bitwise AND with the result that bits in the value in positions where the mask is zero are also set to zero. For example, if, in C, we want to test if bits 0 or 2 of x are set, we can write int mask = 5; /* binary 101 */ if (x & mask) ... A bit mask might also be used to set certain bits using bitwise OR, or to invert them using bitwise exclusive OR.
- blastema — a mass of undifferentiated animal cells that will develop into an organ or tissue: present at the site of regeneration of a lost part
- blastoma — a tumour composed of embryonic tissue that has not yet developed a specialized function
- boatsman — boatman.
- bot army — a group of computers, infected with malign programs via the internet, that can be controlled remotely to, for example, mount denial-of-service attacks
- bothyman — a person who lives in a bothy
- bramante — Donato (doˈnato). ?1444–1514, Italian architect and artist of the High Renaissance. He modelled his designs for domed centrally planned churches on classical Roman architecture
- brampton — city in SE Ontario, Canada, near Toronto: pop. 268,000
- bultmann — Rudolf Karl. 1884–1976, German theologian, noted for his demythologizing approach to the New Testament
- bunkmate — a person who sleeps in the same quarters as another
- bushmeat — meat taken from any animal native to African forests, including species that may be endangered or not usually eaten outside Africa
- buttyman — a male homosexual
- calamint — any aromatic Eurasian plant of the genus Satureja (or Calamintha), having clusters of purple or pink flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- calamite — any extinct treelike plant of the genus Calamites, of Carboniferous times, related to the horsetails
- calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
- calltime — time available for making calls on a mobile phone
- calumets — Plural form of calumet.
- cambiata — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a skip, usually of a third above or below, and progressing by a step.
- cambists — Plural form of cambist.
- cameltoe — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
- camp out — If you say that people camp out somewhere in the open air, you are emphasizing that they stay there for a long time, because they are waiting for something to happen.
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- campmate — Someone who is or has been in the same camp as another person; one's fellow camper.
- campshot — a facing of planks and piles placed along the bank of a river to prevent erosion.