7-letter words containing amb
- gambles — Plural form of gamble.
- gamboge — Also, cambogia. a gum resin from various Asian trees of the genus Garcinia, especially G. hanburyi, used as a yellow pigment and as a cathartic.
- gambols — Plural form of gambol.
- gambrel — the hock of an animal, especially of a horse.
- hambone — (especially in vaudeville) a performer made up in blackface and using a stereotyped black dialect.
- hamborn — Duisburg.
- hamburg — a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground or chopped beef, usually in a roll or bun, variously garnished.
- iambics — Plural form of iambic.
- iambist — a person who writes iambs
- jambeau — Armor. greave.
- jambeux — (historical) mediaeval armour for the legs below the knees.
- jambier — a greave
- jambiya — an Arabian knife having a curved, double-edged blade, usually with a central rib.
- jambone — a lone hand in euchre that is played while a player's cards are exposed on the table
- lambada — a Brazilian ballroom dance for couples, with gyrating movements and close interlocking of the partners.
- lambast — to beat or whip severely.
- lambdas — Plural form of lambda.
- lambent — running or moving lightly over a surface: lambent tongues of flame.
- lambert — Constant [kon-stuh nt] /ˈkɒn stənt/ (Show IPA), 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
- lambeth — a borough of Greater London, England.
- lambing — a young sheep.
- lambkin — a little lamb.
- lamboys — a skirt-like piece of armour made from metal strips
- mamboed — Simple past tense and past participle of mambo.
- pnambic — (jargon) /p*-nam'bik/ (From the scene in the film, "The Wizard of Oz" in which the true nature of the wizard is first discovered: "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"). A term coined by Daniel Klein <[email protected]> for a stage of development of a process or function that, owing to incomplete implementation or to the complexity of the system, requires human interaction to simulate or replace some or all of its actions, inputs or outputs. The term may also be applied to a process or function whose apparent operations are wholly or partially falsified or one requiring prestidigitization. The ultimate pnambic product was "Dan Bricklin's Demo", a program which supported flashy user-interface design prototyping. There is a related maxim among hackers: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." See magic for illumination of this point.
- qlambda — (language) A LISP by Richard Gabriel and John McCarthy.
- rambert — Dame Marie (Cyvia Rambam; Myriam Rambam) 1888–1982, English ballet dancer, producer, and director, born in Poland.
- rambler — a person, animal, or thing that rambles.
- sambhur — a deer, Cervus unicolor, of India, Sri Lanka, southeastern Asia, the East Indies, and the Philippines, having three-pointed antlers.
- sambuca — a licorice-flavored Italian liqueur made from elderberries.
- scamble — a long bench used in a farm kitchen
- shamble — a shambling gait.
- shambly — characterized by awkward, lazy, or unsteady movements, esp in walking
- sjambok — (in southern Africa) a heavy whip, usually of rhinoceros hide.
- spambot — a bot that searches the Internet for email addresses in order to send spam.
- stambul — the oldest part and principal Turkish residential section of Istanbul, south of the Golden Horn.
- tambala — a bronze coin and monetary unit of Malawi, the 100th part of a kwacha.
- tambora — an active volcano in Indonesia, on N Sumbawa: eruption 1815. 9042 feet (2756 meters).
- tambour — Music. a drum.
- tambura — an Asian musical instrument of the lute family having a small, round body and a long neck.
- zambezi — a river in S Africa, flowing S and W from Zambia through E Angola and Zambia and then E along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe into and through central Mozambique to the Indian Ocean. 1650 miles (2657 km) long.
- zambian — a republic in S Africa: formerly a British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1964; a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 288,130 sq. mi. (746,256 sq. km). Capital: Lusaka.
- zamboni — a tractorlike machine used on an ice skating rink to smooth the ice
- zambuck — a St John ambulance attendant, esp at a sports meeting