8-letter words containing amo
- paramour — an illicit lover, especially of a married person.
- peamouth — a minnow, Mylocheilus caurinus, of northwestern U.S. and British Columbian waters.
- pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- rosamond — a feminine name: dim. Roz
- run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- sagamore — (among the American Indians of New England) a chief or leader.
- sangamon — the third interglacial stage of the Pleistocene Epoch in North America, after the Illinoian glacial stage and before the Wisconsin.
- 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.
- sesamoid — shaped like a sesame seed, as certain small nodular bones and cartilages.
- shamokin — a borough in E Pennsylvania.
- squamous — covered with or formed of squamae or scales.
- sycamore — Also called buttonwood. any of several North American plane trees, especially Platanus occidentalis, having shallowly lobed ovate leaves, globular seed heads, and wood valued as timber.
- unfamous — having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
- yamamoto — Isoroku [ee-saw-raw-koo] /ˈi sɔˈrɔ kʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1943, Japanese naval officer.
- yanomamo — a member of an indigenous people of southern Venezuela and neighboring Brazil who live in scattered villages in the rain forests and conduct warfare against one another continually.