9-letter words containing gam
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- home game — a game played on a team's home ground
- homogamic — (of a plant) in which all the flowers of an inflorescence are either of the same sex or hermaphrodite
- hypergamy — the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
- isogamete — one of a pair of conjugating gametes, exhibiting no differences in form, size, structure, or sex.
- isogamous — having two similar gametes in which no differentiation can be distinguished, or reproducing by the union of such gametes (opposed to heterogamous).
- jigamaree — a trick or manoeuvre
- karyogamy — the fusion of the nuclei of cells, as in fertilization.
- ligaments — Plural form of ligament.
- long game — the aspect of golf considered in relation to the ability of a player to hit shots, especially drives, for distance. Compare short game (def 1).
- love game — a game in which one's opponent fails to win a point.
- mattagami — a river in E Ontario, Canada, flowing N to join the Missinaibi River and form the Moose River. 275 miles (443 km) long.
- megamaser — (astronomy) Any celestial object exhibiting enormous maser activity.
- megameter — Alternative spelling of megametre.
- megametre — A distance of 1,000 km. Symbol: Mm.
- megamouth — The megamouth shark.
- mind game — an action or statement intended to undermine or mislead someone else, often to gain advantage for oneself
- misogamic — having a hatred of marriage
- monogamic — monogamous.
- mridangam — an ancient drum of India shaped like a long conical barrel with two tuned heads of different sizes.
- neogamist — A person recently married; newlywed.
- open game — a relatively simple game involving open ranks and files, permitting tactical play, and usually following symmetrical development
- origamist — A person who does origami.
- orthogamy — (botany) fertilization of the ovules of a plant by pollen from the same plant.
- outgamble — to defeat at gambling
- pantagamy — a communal marriage system amongst members of a community or household
- polygamic — polygamous.
- porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
- progamete — a cell that is the precursor of one ovum or many spermatozoa; a spermatocyte or oocyte.
- skin game — a dishonest or unscrupulous business operation, scheme, etc.
- trigamist — a person who has three spouses at once
- trigamous — of or relating to trigamy or a trigamist.
- troy game — a solemn ritual performed at irregular intervals by the ancient Romans to signalize their alleged descent from the Trojans: notable for the interweaving labyrinthine maneuvers executed by youths on horseback.
- 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.
- wall game — a type of football played at Eton against a wall
- word game — any game or contest involving skill in using, forming, guessing, or changing words or expressions, such as anagrams or Scrabble.
- zoogamete — planogamete.
- zoogamous — of or relating to zoogamy