8-letter words containing g, a, m
- misgraft — to graft wrongly
- mishigas — Craziness; silliness; tomfoolery; nonsense.
- misogamy — hatred of marriage.
- misusage — wrong or improper usage, as of words.
- mitigant — Tending to mitigate.
- mitigate — to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
- mitnaged — an orthodox opponent of Chassidism
- monaghan — a county in the NE Republic of Ireland. 498 sq. mi. (1290 sq. km). County seat: Monaghan.
- moneybag — a bag for money.
- mongolia — a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian People's Republic.
- 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.
- mridanga — an ancient drum of India shaped like a long conical barrel with two tuned heads of different sizes.
- mucilage — any of various, usually liquid, preparations of gum, glue, or the like, used as an adhesive.
- mudguard — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mulligan — Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
- multiage — Concerning more than one age.
- mumblage — /muhm'bl*j/ The topic of one's mumbling (see mumble). "All that mumblage" is used like "all that stuff" when it is not quite clear how the subject of discussion works, or like "all that crap" when "mumble" is being used as an implicit replacement for pejoratives.
- musgrave — Thea. born 1928, Scottish composer, noted esp for her operas
- musk bag — the musk-secreting gland of a male musk deer.
- mustangs — Plural form of mustang.
- mutagens — Plural form of mutagen.
- mutating — to change; alter.
- myalgias — pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism.
- myingyan — a city in central Burma.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- namangan — a city in E Uzbekistan, NW of Andizhan.
- nametags — Plural form of nametag.
- nanogram — one billionth of a gram. Abbreviation: ng.
- nerdgasm — a feeling of intense excitement felt by someone considered to be a nerd, esp. when caused by something relating to his or her leisure interests such as a new piece of technology, computer game, science fiction film, etc.
- ngaliema — Mount, a mountain with two summits, in central Africa, between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: highest peak in the Ruwenzori group. 16,790 feet (5119 meters).
- 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.