8-letter words containing g, a, m
- megadyne — a unit of force equal to one million dynes
- megafirm — A very large firm.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megagaea — one of the three primary zoogeographic areas of the earth including Europe, Africa, Asia, certain islands southeast of Asia, and the polar and temperate areas of North America
- megahurt — (computer slang, rare) megahertz.
- megalith — a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- megamall — A megamall is a very large shopping area containing very many shops, cinemas, and restaurants.
- 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.
- megastar — A very famous person, especially in the world of entertainment.
- megatons — Plural form of megaton.
- megavolt — a unit of electromotive force, equal to one million volts. Abbreviation: MV.
- megawatt — a unit of power, equal to one million watts. Abbreviation: MW.
- megillah — Slang. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account: Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- meleager — flourished 1st century b.c, Greek epigrammatist.
- meltages — (very, rare) Plural form of meltage.
- menacing — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- mesh bag — bag made of netting
- meshugah — Alternative form of meshugge.
- meshugas — craziness
- meshugga — crazy; insane.
- mesoglea — the noncellular, gelatinous material between the inner and outer body walls of a coelenterate or sponge.
- messaged — Simple past tense and past participle of message.
- messager — One who sends a message.
- messages — A verbal, written, or recorded communication sent to or left for a recipient who cannot be contacted directly.
- messuage — a dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and the lands appropriated to the use of the household.
- meta tag — META element
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- metagame — A game about games; a game based on exploiting the rules etc. of some other game, at a higher level than simply playing the game normally.
- metaling — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- metayage — the system of agriculture based on the use of métayers.
- meterage — the practice of measuring; measurement.
- miauling — Present participle of miaul.
- michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
- midrange — of, relating to, or occupying the middle audio frequencies: a midrange frequency.
- migraine — an extremely severe paroxysmal headache, usually confined to one side of the head and often associated with nausea; hemicrania.
- migrants — Plural form of migrant.
- migrated — to go from one country, region, or place to another. Synonyms: move, resettle, relocate. Antonyms: remain.
- migrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of migrate.
- migrator — (computing) A computer program that helps move objects between locations, e.g. from a legacy system to a new technology.
- mileages — Plural form of mileage.
- milligal — a unit of acceleration, equal to one thousandth of a gal; one thousandth of a centimeter per second per second. Abbreviation: mGal.
- milligan — Spike, real name Terence Alan Milligan. 1918–2002, Irish radio, stage, and film comedian and author, born in India. He appeared in The Goon Show (with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe; BBC Radio, 1952–60) and his films include Postman's Knock (1962), Adolf Hitler, My Part in his Downfall (1972), The Three Musketeers (1974), The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), and Yellowbeard (1982). He was awarded an honorary knighthood in 2000
- mintages — Plural form of mintage.
- misagent — a bad agent
- misalign — To align incorrectly.
- misgauge — To gauge (measure) incorrectly.
- misgrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- misgraff — badly matched