8-letter words containing o, a, m
- armories — (US) Plural form of armory.
- armorist — a heraldry expert
- armorize — to equip with armor or other protective devices: to armorize a car with bulletproof glass.
- armoured — Armoured vehicles are fitted with a hard metal covering in order to protect them from gunfire and other missiles.
- armourer — An armourer is someone who makes or supplies weapons.
- armozeen — a plain silk, often black, used for clerical gowns and mourning purposes, as well as for women's dresses during and before the 18th century
- armyworm — the caterpillar of a widely distributed noctuid moth, Leucania unipuncta, which travels in vast hordes and is a serious pest of cereal crops in North America
- aromatic — An aromatic plant or food has a strong, pleasant smell of herbs or spices.
- art form — If you describe an activity as an art form, you mean that it is concerned with creating objects, works, or performances that are beautiful or have a serious meaning.
- asarotum — (in ancient Roman architecture) a painted pavement.
- ascomata — a fruiting body that bears asci.
- asmodeus — (in Jewish demonology) prince of the demons
- asmonean — Hasmonean.
- atamasco — relating to an American lily of the genus Zephyranthes
- atemoyas — Plural form of atemoya.
- atheldom — (rare) The state or condition of being athel or noble; nobility.
- atheroma — a fatty deposit on or within the inner lining of an artery, often causing an obstruction to the blood flow
- atmology — the study of or the scientific discipline of aqueous vapour
- atmolyse — to separate gases, which have differing degrees of diffusibility, by filtering
- atomical — of, pertaining to, resulting from, or using atoms, atomic energy, or atomic bombs: an atomic explosion.
- atomised — to reduce to atoms.
- atomiser — Modern commonwealth spelling of 'atomizer'.
- atomises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of atomise.
- atomized — Simple past tense and past participle of atomize.
- atomizer — a device for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, such as the nozzle used to feed oil into a furnace or an enclosed bottle with a fine outlet used to spray perfumes or medicines
- atomizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of atomize.
- atropism — a condition caused by using atropine over a period of time
- auriform — shaped like an ear; auricular
- autogamy — self-fertilization in flowering plants
- autoloom — (India) A type of power loom.
- automata — automaton
- automate — To automate a factory, office, or industrial process means to put in machines which can do the work instead of people.
- automath — One who is self-taught; an autodidact.
- automats — Plural form of automat.
- automize — To automate or automatize.
- automous — Misspelling of autonomous.
- autonomy — Autonomy is the ability to make your own decisions about what to do rather than being influenced by someone else or told what to do.
- autonyms — Plural form of autonym.
- autonymy — The use of a symbol as a name for itself.
- autosome — any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
- autotomy — the casting off by an animal of a part of its body, to facilitate escape when attacked
- aviemore — a winter sports resort in Scotland, in Moray between the Monadhliath and Cairngorm Mountains. Pop: 2397 (2001)
- awesomer — (nonstandard) Comparative form of awesome.
- axolemma — the membrane that encloses the axon of a nerve cell
- axonemal — of or relating to the axoneme
- axonemes — Plural form of axoneme.
- axoplasm — the fluid substance found in the axon of a neuron which surrounds the fibrils
- azoimide — hydrazoic acid.
- azotemia — the accumulation of nitrogenous substances in the blood, resulting from failure of the kidneys to remove them
- azotemic — the accumulation of abnormally large amounts of nitrogenous waste products in the blood, as in uremic poisoning.