8-letter words containing g, m
- gameplay — The tactical aspects of a computer game, such as its plot and the way it is played, as distinct from the graphics and sound effects.
- gamesman — a person who is skilled at manipulating events and circumstances to gain or maintain personal advantage, especially in business or politics.
- gamesome — playful; frolicsome.
- gamester — a gambler.
- gaminess — the taste or odor of game, especially when slightly tainted.
- gammoned — Simple past tense and past participle of gammon.
- gamodeme — an isolated breeding population
- gamyness — the quality of being gamy
- gangsman — the foreman of a gang of workers
- ganymeda — Hebe.
- ganymede — Also, Ganymedes [gan-uh-mee-deez] /ˌgæn əˈmi diz/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a Trojan youth who was abducted by Zeus and taken to Olympus, where he was made the cupbearer of the gods and became immortal.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- garamond — a printing type designed in 1540 by Claude Garamond (c1480–1561), French type founder.
- garments — Plural form of garment.
- gas main — a large pipe for conducting and distributing gas to lesser pipes or ducts, especially such a pipe carrying and distributing household gas beneath the streets of a town or city.
- gas mask — a masklike device containing or attached to a component that filters the air inhaled by the wearer through charcoal and chemicals, for protecting the face and lungs against noxious gases and fumes, as in warfare or in certain industrial processes.
- gasiform — having the form of gas; gaseous.
- gaullism — a political movement in France led by Charles de Gaulle.
- gaumless — gormless.
- gavelman — a gavelkind tenant
- gayomart — the first Aryan and the sixth creation of Ahura Mazda.
- gazement — a stare; look; view
- gazumped — Simple past tense and past participle of gazump.
- gem iron — a heavy, usually cast-iron oven dish used for baking small cakes (gems)
- gem jade — transparent jadeite of gem quality; a true jade.
- gematria — a cabbalistic system of interpretation of the Scriptures by substituting for a particular word another word whose letters give the same numerical sum.
- geminate — Also, geminated. combined or arranged in pairs; twin; coupled.
- geminian — a person born under the sign of Gemini, usually between May 21st and June 20th.
- geminids — a collection of meteors making up a meteor shower (Gem·inid me·teor show·er) visible around December 13, having its apparent origin in the constellation Gemini.
- geminous — found in pairs
- gemmated — Having buds.
- gemmeous — of, relating to, or resembling a gem
- gemmules — Plural form of gemmule.
- gemology — the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstones.
- gempylid — any of several fishes of the family Gempylidae, comprising the snake mackerels.
- gemsboks — Plural form of gemsbok.
- gemsbuck — gemsbok.
- gemshorn — a type of horn with carved tone holes, traditionally made from the horn of the chamois
- gemstone — a precious or semiprecious stone that can be cut and polished for use as a gem.
- gendarme — a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer.
- gene map — an arrangement of genes on a chromosome.
- genogram — a graphic representation of the personalities and interplay of generations within a family, used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior; a psychological family tree.
- genomics — the study of genomes.
- geomancy — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- geometer — geometrician.
- geometry — the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties of space.
- geomyoid — relating to burrowing rodents of the genus Geomys
- geotherm — a line or surface within or on the earth connecting points of equal temperature
- geranium — any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
- germaine — a female given name.