8-letter words containing m, e, g
- bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
- breaming — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- bromberg — German name of Bydgoszcz.
- cam gear — a gear not centered on the shaft, used where discontinuous action is required
- camaguey — a city in E central Cuba. Pop: 320 000 (2005 est)
- campagne — a low plain surrounding the city of Rome, Italy.
- chemurgy — the branch of chemistry concerned with the industrial use of organic raw materials, esp materials of agricultural origin
- chummage — (formerly) a fee paid by a prisoner for sole occupancy of a cell
- coagment — (obsolete) To join together.
- cognomen — (originally) an ancient Roman's third name or nickname, which later became his family name
- comeling — (obsolete) A comer; (person) an arrival.
- comingle — Alternative spelling of commingle.
- commager — Henry Steele, 1902–98, U.S. historian, author, and teacher.
- commerge — to merge together
- compages — a structure or framework
- con game — a swindle involving money, goods, etc, in which the victim's trust is won by the swindler; a shortened form of confidence game
- cragsmen — Plural form of cragsman.
- creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- cymogene — a mixture of volatile flammable hydrocarbons, mainly butane, obtained in the distillation of petroleum
- dagenham — part of the Greater London borough of Barking and Dagenham: engineering and chemicals
- damagers — Plural form of damager.
- decagram — dekagram
- decigram — a unit of measurement that is equivalent to one tenth of a gram
- defaming — to attack the good name or reputation of, as by uttering or publishing maliciously or falsely anything injurious; slander or libel; calumniate: The newspaper editorial defamed the politician.
- degummed — to free from gum.
- dekagram — ten grams, or one tenth of a hectogram (0.3527 ounce): abbrev. dag
- demagogy — You can refer to a method of political rule as demagogy if you disapprove of it because you think it involves appealing to people's emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
- demerger — A demerger is the separation of a large company into several smaller companies.
- demigods — Plural form of demigod.
- demining — Present participle of demine.
- demising — death or decease.
- demiurge — (in the philosophy of Plato) the creator of the universe
- demixing — Demixing is the unintended separation of the substances in a mixture.
- demology — the study of human populations, activities, and behaviour
- demorage — Obsolete form of demurrage.
- demoting — Present participle of demote.
- die game — to die bravely and still fighting
- dime bag — a packet containing an amount of an illegal drug selling for ten dollars.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- dungmere — a hole or a trench for the collection of waste matter
- eargasms — Plural form of eargasm.
- echogram — a record produced by the action of an echograph.
- eglomise — the technique of gilding the back of a sheet of glass
- egomania — Obsessive egotism or self-centeredness.
- emailing — Present participle of email.
- emceeing — Present participle of emcee.
- emending — Present participle of emend.
- emergent — An emergent property.
- emerging — Becoming prominent; newly formed; emergent; rising.
- emigrant — A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.