8-letter words containing g, a, m, o
- monogamy — marriage with only one person at a time. Compare bigamy, polygamy.
- monogram — a design consisting of two or more alphabetic letters combined or interlaced, commonly one's initials, often printed on stationery, embroidered on clothing, etc.
- montaged — Simple past tense and past participle of montage.
- montages — Plural form of montage.
- montague — (in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) the family name of Romeo. Compare Capulet.
- moon bag — a small bag worn on a belt, round the waist
- moorages — Plural form of moorage.
- morgagni — Giovanni Battista [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni bɑtˈtis tɑ/ (Show IPA), 1682–1771, Italian anatomist.
- mortgage — the rights conferred by it, or the state of the property conveyed.
- moss hag — an area, pit, or hole from which peat has been dug.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- nanogram — one billionth of a gram. Abbreviation: ng.
- nomogram — a graph, usually containing three parallel scales graduated for different variables so that when a straight line connects values of any two, the related value may be read directly from the third at the point intersected by the line.
- nonagram — A geometric figure which resembles a pentagram except that it has nine points instead of five.
- nonimage — That which is not an image.
- nonmagic — Not magic; nonmagical.
- oghamist — Alternative capitalization of Oghamist.
- oligemia — Alt form olig\u00e6mia.
- omophagy — The eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- ondogram — The recording produced by an ondograph.
- oogamete — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- oogamous — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- optogram — (physiology) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple.
- organism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- orgasmed — Simple past tense and past participle of orgasm.
- orgasmic — the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- origanum — An aromatic plant of a genus that includes marjoram and oregano.
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- pagandom — the part of the world inhabited by pagans.
- 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.
- picogram — one trillionth of a gram. Abbreviation: pg.
- plumbago — graphite.
- polygamy — the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, especially wife, at one time. Compare bigamy (def 1), monogamy (def 1).
- pornomag — pornographic magazine
- porogamy — the fertilization of a seed plant involving passage of the pollen tube into the ovule by the micropyle
- postgame — of, relating to, or happening in the period immediately following a sports game: Join us for the postgame wrap-up. Fans lost control in a postgame melee.
- programs — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- renogram — a kidney scan monitoring the throughput by the kidney of a radioactive chemical injected into the bloodstream
- roarming — severe
- sagamore — (among the American Indians of New England) a chief or leader.
- sangamon — the third interglacial stage of the Pleistocene Epoch in North America, after the Illinoian glacial stage and before the Wisconsin.
- saramago — José [zhoo-ze] /ʒʊˈzɛ/ (Show IPA), 1922–2010, Portuguese journalist, playwright, and novelist: Nobel prize 1998.
- scarmoge — a skirmish or minor conflict
- somegate — in some manner
- sonogram — the visual image produced by reflected sound waves in a diagnostic ultrasound examination.
- subimago — the first winged stage of the mayfly, with dull opaque wings, known to anglers as a dun, before it metamorphoses into the shiny gauzy imago or spinner
- tombaugh — Clyde William, 1906–97, U.S. astronomer: discovered Pluto 1930.
- tomogram — the visual record produced by tomography.
- tomonaga — Shinichiro [shee-nee-chee-raw] /ˈʃi ni tʃiˈrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1906–79, Japanese physicist: Nobel prize 1965.