9-letter words containing am
- uncle sam — a personification of the government or people of the U.S.: represented as a tall, lean man with white chin whiskers, wearing a blue tailcoat, red-and-white-striped trousers, and a top hat with a band of stars.
- undamaged — injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness: The storm did considerable damage to the crops.
- undername — a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- undreamed — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- undynamic — pertaining to or characterized by energy or effective action; vigorously active or forceful; energetic: the dynamic president of the firm.
- uniramous — Biology. having one branch.
- unnamable — nameable.
- unsampled — undemonstrated
- unstamped — not having a postage stamp affixed
- untamable — able to be tamed.
- untamably — in an untamable manner; in such a way as to be untamable
- usamodsim — (language) United States Army ModSim compiler. Version 1.0 runs on SPARC/SunOS, Silicon Graphics, MS-DOS. E-mail: Charles Herring <[email protected]>.
- user name — Also called login name, logon name, sign-in name, sign-on name. a unique sequence of characters used to identify a user and allow access to a computer system, computer network, or online account.
- v da gama — Vasco da [vas-koh duh;; Portuguese vahsh-koo duh] /ˈvæs koʊ də;; Portuguese ˈvɑʃ kʊ də/ (Show IPA), c1460–1524, Portuguese navigator: discovered the sea route from Portugal around the continent of Africa to India.
- vampirish — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vampirism — belief in the existence of vampires.
- vampirize — to suck blood from
- vampishly — in a vampish manner
- verapamil — a white crystalline powder, C 27 H 38 N 2 O 4 , used as a calcium blocker in the treatment of angina and certain arrhythmias.
- videogram — an audiovisual recording, as on a videotape or DVD
- vitamin a — a yellow oil, C 20 H 28 O, similar to vitamin A, obtained from fish liver.
- vitamin b — a deep-red crystalline, water-soluble solid, C 63 H 88 N 14 O 14 PCo, obtained from liver, milk, eggs, fish, oysters, and clams: a deficiency causes pernicious anemia and disorders of the nervous system.
- vitamin c — ascorbic acid.
- vitamin d — calciferol.
- vitamin e — a pale-yellow viscous fluid, abundant in vegetable oils, whole-grain cereals, butter, and eggs, and important as an antioxidant in the deactivation of free radicals and in maintenance of the body's cell membranes: deficiency is rare.
- vitamin g — riboflavin.
- vitamin h — biotin.
- vitamin k — menadione.
- vitamin m — folic acid.
- vitamin p — bioflavonoid.
- vivamente — in a lively manner
- voorkamer — the front room, esp of a Cape Dutch house or farmhouse
- wakamatsu — a seaport on N Kyushu, in S Japan: formed in 1963 by the merger of five cities (Kokura, Moji, Tobata, Wakamatsu, and Yawata)
- wall game — a type of football played at Eton against a wall
- wall lamp — wall-mounted light
- wampanoag — a member of a once-powerful North American Indian people who inhabited the area east of Narragansett Bay from Rhode Island to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket at the time of the Pilgrim settlement.
- wanamaker — John, 1838–1922, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.
- warp beam — a roller, located at the back of a loom, on which the warp ends are wound in preparation for weaving.
- web frame — a deep transverse frame reinforcing the hull of a ship.
- wet dream — nocturnal emission.
- wet steam — steam, usually low-pressure, that contains water droplets in suspension
- whim-wham — any odd or fanciful object or thing; a gimcrack.
- whitebeam — a European tree, Sorbus aria, of the rose family, having leathery leaves, showy, white flowers, and mealy, orange-red or scarlet fruit.
- whitedamp — a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.
- wilbraham — a city in SW Massachusetts.
- william i — ("the Conqueror") 1027–87, duke of Normandy 1035–87; king of England 1066–87 (son of Robert I, duke of Normandy).
- wireframe — a visual representation of the structure of a web page
- wokingham — a unitary authority in SE England, in Berkshire. Pop: 151 200 (2003 est). Area: 179 sq km (69 sq miles)
- wolframic — tungstic.
- word game — any game or contest involving skill in using, forming, guessing, or changing words or expressions, such as anagrams or Scrabble.