7-letter words containing a, m
- brigham — a male given name.
- bromate — any salt or ester of bromic acid, containing the monovalent group -BrO3 or ion BrO3–
- buchman — Frank Nathan Daniel, 1878–1961, U.S. evangelist, founder of Moral Re-Armament movement.
- buckram — cotton or linen cloth stiffened with size, etc, used in lining or stiffening clothes, bookbinding, etc
- bulimia — Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an illness in which a person has a very great fear of becoming fat, and so they make themselves vomit after eating.
- bum bag — A bum bag consists of a small bag attached to a belt which you wear round your waist. You use it to carry things such as money and keys.
- bum rap — a trumped-up or false charge
- bumbaze — to confuse; bewilder
- bumboat — any small boat used for ferrying supplies or goods for sale to a ship at anchor or at a mooring
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- bummalo — Bombay duck.
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- bushman — A Bushman is an aboriginal person from the southwestern part of Africa, especially the Kalahari desert region.
- by name — When you mention someone or something by name, or address someone by name, you use their name.
- by-name — a secondary name; cognomen; surname.
- byreman — a man who works in a byre
- c-clamp — a general-purpose clamp shaped like the letter C
- cabimas — a town in NW Venezuela, on the NE shore of Lake Maracaibo. Pop: 284 000 (2005 est)
- cabomba — any of several aquatic plants of the genus Cabomba of the family Cabombaceae, having both submerged and floating leaves
- cacimbo — a heavy mist or drizzle that occurs in the Congo basin area, often accompanied by onshore winds.
- caconym — an erroneous name, esp in taxonomic classification
- cacumen — an apex
- cad/cam — design and manufacturing by means of a computer system, as in the creation of complex wiring diagrams, the design of coordinated machine parts, etc.
- cadmean — of or like Cadmus
- cadmium — Cadmium is a soft bluish-white metal that is used in the production of nuclear energy.
- caedmon — fl. a.d. c670, Anglo-Saxon religious poet.
- caesium — a ductile silvery-white element of the alkali metal group that is the most electropositive metal. It occurs in pollucite and lepidolite and is used in photocells. The radioisotope caesium-137, with a half-life of 30.2 years, is used in radiotherapy. Symbol: Cs; atomic no: 55; atomic wt: 132.90543; valency: 1; relative density: 1.873; melting pt: 28.39±0.01°C; boiling pt: 671°C
- cagmags — Plural form of cagmag.
- caimans — Plural form of caiman.
- cainism — the first son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel. Gen. 4.
- cakeman — A man who sells cakes.
- calamar — a squid
- calamus — any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus, some species of which are a source of rattan and canes
- calcium — Calcium is a soft white element which is found in bones and teeth, and also in limestone, chalk, and marble.
- calmant — a calmative
- calmers — Plural form of calmer.
- calmest — without rough motion; still or nearly still: a calm sea.
- calmeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calm.
- calming — soothing; tranquillizing
- calomel — a colourless tasteless powder consisting chiefly of mercurous chloride, used medicinally, esp as a cathartic. Formula: Hg2Cl2
- calumba — the root of the Mozambiquan plant Jateorhiza columba, used as an aid to digestion and as a mild tonic
- calumet — a long-stemmed ceremonial pipe, smoked by North American Indians as a token of peace, at sacrifices, etc.
- calumny — Calumny or a calumny is an untrue statement made about someone in order to reduce other people's respect and admiration for them.
- camacho — Manuel Ávila [mah-nwel ah-vee-lah] /mɑˈnwɛl ˈɑ viˌlɑ/ (Show IPA). Manuel Avila Camacho.
- camaieu — a cameo
- camaron — a freshwater crustacean resembling the crayfish
- camauro — a crimson velvet cap trimmed with ermine, worn by the pope on nonliturgical occasions.
- cambelt — Part of an internal combustion engine that synchronizes the rotation of the crankshaft and the camshaft(s) so that the engine's valves open and close at the proper times during each cylinder's intake and exhaust strokes.
- cambers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of camber.
- cambial — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.