8-letter words containing em
- basement — The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
- batement — reduction; abatement
- behemoth — If you refer to something as a behemoth, you mean that it is extremely large, and often that it is unpleasant, inefficient, or difficult to manage.
- bemadden — to cause to become mad
- bemingle — to mingle
- bemoaned — to express distress or grief over; lament: to bemoan one's fate.
- bemoaner — a person who bemoans
- bemuddle — to confuse
- bemuffle — to muffle, wrap up warmly
- bemurmur — to murmur at
- bemusing — to bewilder or confuse.
- bemuzzle — to put a muzzle on
- bensalem — urban township in SE Pa., near Philadelphia: pop. 58,000
- beseemly — becoming; suitable
- bessemer — Sir Henry, 1813–98, English engineer: inventor of the Bessemer process.
- betjeman — Sir John. 1906–84, English poet, noted for his nostalgic and humorous verse and essays and for his concern for the preservation of historic buildings, esp of the Victorian era. Poet laureate (1972–84)
- bigeminy — a heart complaint in which beats occur in pairs
- blastema — a mass of undifferentiated animal cells that will develop into an organ or tissue: present at the site of regeneration of a lost part
- bluestem — a name applied to a number of North American prairie grasses
- bodement — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.
- bohemian — Bohemian means belonging or relating to Bohemia or its people.
- bonemeal — the product of dried and ground animal bones, used as a fertilizer or in stock feeds
- bontemps — Arna Wendell [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–73, U.S. author.
- brakeman — a crew member of a goods or passenger train. His duties include controlling auxiliary braking power and inspecting the train
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- brunizem — a type of dark prairie soil
- c-scheme — MIT Scheme
- cadreman — an officer or enlisted person in a military cadre.
- canoeman — (chiefly, Canada, historical) A voyageur.
- casemate — an armoured compartment in a ship or fortification in which guns are mounted
- casement — A casement or a casement window is a window that opens by means of hinges, usually at the side.
- cemented — any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
- cementer — A person who applies cement.
- cementum — a thin bonelike tissue that covers the dentine in the root of a tooth
- cemetary — Misspelling of cemetery.
- cemetery — A cemetery is a place where dead people's bodies or their ashes are buried.
- cerement — any burial clothes
- ceremony — A ceremony is a formal event such as a wedding.
- chemical — Chemical means involving or resulting from a reaction between two or more substances, or relating to the substances that something consists of.
- chemico- — chemical
- chemises — Plural form of chemise.
- chemists — Plural form of chemist.
- chemnitz — a city in E Germany, in Saxony, at the foot of the Erzgebirge: textiles, engineering. Pop: 249 922 (2003 est)
- chemosis — (medicine) A chemically-induced swelling of the mucous membrane of the eye.
- chemulpo — Inchon.
- chemurgy — the branch of chemistry concerned with the industrial use of organic raw materials, esp materials of agricultural origin
- cheremis — Mari.
- choreman — a handyman or odd-job man
- chremzel — a flat cake made from matzo meal, topped or stuffed with a filling, as of ground meat or fruit and nuts.
- chroneme — A basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.