8-letter words containing t, a, e, m, o
- noonmeat — (rare, archaic) A midday meal (especially including meat).
- ommateum — compound eye.
- omoplate — the shoulder blade
- onstream — Being produced.
- oogamete — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- optimate — a Roman aristocrat
- ornament — an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part: architectural ornaments.
- ostomate — A person who has had an ostomy, a surgical operation to create an opening in the body for the discharge of body wastes.
- outdream — to exceed in dreaming
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- outshame — to shame greatly or surpass in shamefulness
- overmast — to provide (a ship) with a mast that is too tall or heavy
- overtame — too tame
- palmetto — any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as of the genera Sabal, Serenoa, and Thrinax.
- palometa — a pompano, Trachinotus goodei, of tropical and temperate Atlantic seas, having long, tapering fins.
- peamouth — a minnow, Mylocheilus caurinus, of northwestern U.S. and British Columbian waters.
- poematic — relating to or resembling poetry
- pomwater — a kind of sharp-tasting apple
- postgame — of, relating to, or happening in the period immediately following a sports game: Join us for the postgame wrap-up. Fans lost control in a postgame melee.
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
- ptomaine — any of a class of foul-smelling nitrogenous substances produced by bacteria during putrefaction of animal or plant protein: formerly thought to be toxic.
- rearmost — farthest in the rear; last.
- reformat — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- rolamite — (sometimes initial capital letter) an almost frictionless mechanical device consisting of a flexible metal band formed in an S-shaped loop around moving rollers.
- romanite — a fossil resin similar to amber, used for jewelry.
- roommate — a person who is assigned to share or shares a room or apartment with another or others.
- routeman — a person who works in a specified area or covers a specific route, as a mail carrier or truckdriver.
- salmonet — a young salmon
- sao tome — Democratic Republic of, a republic in W Africa, comprising the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, in the Gulf of Guinea, N of the equator: a former overseas province of Portugal; gained independence in 1975. 372 sq. mi. (964 sq. km). Capital: São Tomé.
- seamount — a submarine mountain rising several hundred fathoms above the floor of the sea but having its summit well below the surface of the water.
- somegate — in some manner
- somewhat — in some measure or degree; to some extent: not angry, just somewhat disturbed.
- somniate — to dream
- soulmate — a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond: I married my soul mate; you don't get much luckier than that.
- soupmeat — beef used for making soup stock.
- steatoma — a fatty tumour or cyst of the sebaceous gland
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- stoneman — a stonecutter or stoneworker.
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
- tautomer — a compound that exhibits tautomerism.
- tea room — A tea room is the same as a tea shop.
- teamwork — cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause.
- temporal — of, relating to, or situated near the temple or a temporal bone.
- teratoma — a tumor made up of different types of tissue.
- thanedom — something that belongs to or lies within the jurisdiction of a thane
- the atom — nuclear energy
- to blame — If someone is to blame for something bad that has happened, they are responsible for causing it.
- tomalley — the liver of a lobster.
- tomatoes — any of several plants belonging to the genus Lycopersicon, of the nightshade family, native to Mexico and Central and South America, especially the widely cultivated species L. lycopersicum, bearing a mildly acid, pulpy, usually red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.