8-letter words containing g, a, m
- scamping — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- scarmoge — a skirmish or minor conflict
- semarang — a seaport on N Java, in S Indonesia.
- semigala — an event similar to a gala but on a lesser scale; an occasion that is festive but not to the degree of a gala
- shamming — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- sigmatic — characterized by a Greek letter sigma or a Roman S added to a word or stem
- skiagram — a picture made by outlining and shading a subject's shadow.
- slamming — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
- smacking — smart, brisk, or strong, as a breeze.
- smallage — the celery, Apium graveolens, especially in its wild state.
- smarting — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- smashing — of, relating to, or constituting a great success: That composer has written many smash tunes.
- somegate — in some manner
- sonogram — the visual image produced by reflected sound waves in a diagnostic ultrasound examination.
- spamming — (lowercase) Digital Technology. disruptive online messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as email (often used attributively): Install spam blocker software and keep your email spam filters updated to protect your accounts from unsolicited spam.
- sphagnum — any soft moss of the genus Sphagnum, occurring chiefly in bogs, used for potting and packing plants, for dressing wounds, etc.
- stalagma — a stalagmite
- steaming — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- stigmata — a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
- stumpage — standing timber with reference to its value.
- 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
- swamping — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- swingarm — the main part of the rear suspension on a motorcycle
- swingman — a player who can play either of two positions, usually guard and forward.
- syntagma — an element that enters into a syntagmatic relationship.
- tag team — a team of two wrestlers who compete one at a time against either member of another such team, the wrestlers in the ring changing places with those outside by tagging them.
- tag-team — designating or having to do with a form of professional wrestling in which two-member teams compete, with teammates alternating in the ring
- taghairm — a form of divination once practised in the Highlands of Scotland
- tagmemic — of or relating to tagmemes.
- telegram — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
- the game — charades
- time lag — A time lag is a fairly long interval of time between one event and another related event that happens after it.
- time-lag — the period of time between two closely related events, phenomena, etc., as between stimulus and response or between cause and effect: a time-lag between the declaration of war and full war production.
- 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.
- tramming — trammel (def 3).
- tramping — the act of tramping.
- umangite — a copper selenide mineral, Cu3Se2, having a dark blue or red colour and metallic lustre
- umpirage — the office or authority of an umpire.
- ungerman — of or relating to Germany, its inhabitants, or their language.
- vagotomy — the surgical severance of vagus nerve fibers, performed to reduce acid secretion by the stomach.
- veganism — a vegetarian who omits all animal products from the diet.
- venogram — an x-ray of the veins produced by venography.
- war game — a simulated military operation, carried out to test the validity of a war plan or operational concept: in its simplest form, two opposing teams of officers take part, and when necessary, military units of the required strength are employed.
- wargames — (recreation) (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy cracker using a wardialer to try to break into a games company's computer and accidentally connecting to a backdoor into "Whopper", a ficticious C3 computer at Norad (USAF). He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear warfare. Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper that the only way to win the game is never to play.
- weighman — a person whose occupation is weighing goods, produce, etc.
- whompage — (rare humorous slang) Whomping or whomping on; acts of whomping or whomping on, taken collectively.
- wightman — Hazel Hotchkiss, 1886–1974, U.S. tennis player.