8-letter words containing gam
- isogamic — isogamous
- kirigami — the Japanese art or technique of cutting and folding paper into objects or designs.
- ligament — Anatomy, Zoology. a band of tissue, usually white and fibrous, serving to connect bones, hold organs in place, etc.
- megamall — A megamall is a very large shopping area containing very many shops, cinemas, and restaurants.
- metagame — A game about games; a game based on exploiting the rules etc. of some other game, at a higher level than simply playing the game normally.
- misogamy — hatred of marriage.
- monogamy — marriage with only one person at a time. Compare bigamy, polygamy.
- oogamete — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- oogamous — one of a pair of structurally dissimilar gametes, the female gamete being large and nonmotile and the male gamete being small and motile.
- pangamic — relating to pangamy
- 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.
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- polygamy — the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, especially wife, at one time. Compare bigamy (def 1), monogamy (def 1).
- porogamy — the fertilization of a seed plant involving passage of the pollen tube into the ovule by the micropyle
- 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.
- 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.
- the game — charades
- war game — a simulated military operation, carried out to test the validity of a war plan or operational concept: in its simplest form, two opposing teams of officers take part, and when necessary, military units of the required strength are employed.
- wargames — (recreation) (Not "War Games") A 1983 film about a schoolboy cracker using a wardialer to try to break into a games company's computer and accidentally connecting to a backdoor into "Whopper", a ficticious C3 computer at Norad (USAF). He then procedes to unwittingly initiate global thermonuclear warfare. Playing naughts and crosses finally teaches Whopper that the only way to win the game is never to play.
- xenogamy — pollination of the stigma of a flower by pollen from a flower on another plant.