8-letter words containing g, a, m
- margents — (obsolete) Plural form of margent.
- marginal — pertaining to a margin.
- margined — Having a margin.
- margrave — (formerly) the hereditary title of the rulers of certain European states.
- marigold — any of several chiefly golden-flowered composite plants, especially of the genus Tagetes, as T. erecta, having strong-scented foliage and yielding an oil that repels root parasites.
- marigram — a graphic representation from a marigraph.
- maritage — the right of a lord to choose the spouses of his wards
- markings — Plural form of marking.
- marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- marrying — to take in marriage: After dating for five years, I finally asked her to marry me.
- martagon — A Eurasian lily.
- mascagni — Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1945, Italian operatic composer.
- mashgiah — an inspector appointed by a board of Orthodox rabbis to guard against any violation of the Jewish dietary laws in food processing plants, meat markets, etc., where food presumed to be kosher is prepared or served for public consumption.
- mashings — Plural form of mashing.
- maskings — Plural form of masking.
- masoning — Present participle of mason.
- massaged — Simple past tense and past participle of massage.
- massager — the act or art of treating the body by rubbing, kneading, patting, or the like, to stimulate circulation, increase suppleness, relieve tension, etc.
- massages — Plural form of massage.
- masstige — noting or pertaining to goods that are perceived to have prestige or high style but are affordable for a wide range of customers: This five-dollar bottle of hand cream is aimed at the masstige market.
- masvingo — a city in S central Zimbabwe.
- matching — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- matgrass — widespread perennial European grass with dense tufts of bristly leaves, characteristic of peaty moors
- maturing — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- maubeuge — a city in N France, on the Sambre River, near the Belgian border.
- maudling — Present participle of maudle.
- mayaguez — a seaport in W Puerto Rico.
- mazology — (obsolete) mammalogy.
- mbaqanga — a style of Black popular music of urban South Africa
- mcteague — a novel (1899) by Frank Norris.
- meagered — Simple past tense and past participle of meager.
- meagerly — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- meagrely — In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
- mealybug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- meanings — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- measling — A form of delamination, or separation in a laminate material, resulting in a spotty appearance.
- medaling — a flat piece of metal, often a disk but sometimes a cross, star, or other form, usually bearing an inscription or design, issued to commemorate a person, action, or event, or given as a reward for bravery, merit, or the like: a gold medal for the best swimmer.
- megaband — (music, informal) A particularly successful band.
- megabase — A length of double-stranded DNA containing two million nucleotides, one million on each strand.
- megabits — Plural form of megabit.
- megabook — An extremely large book.
- megabuck — one million dollars.
- megabyte — 2 20 (1,048,576) bytes.
- megacity — a city having a population of one million or more.
- megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
- megacosm — (obsolete) A macrocosm.
- megadeal — a large business transaction.
- megadebt — An enormous debt.
- megadont — macrodont.
- megadose — a dose many times the usual amount, as of a vitamin or drug.