8-letter words containing ome
- domelike — Resembling a dome.
- domesday — doomsday.
- domestic — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
- downcome — a downcomer.
- downhome — Alternative form of down-home.
- duelsome — having a propensity for duelling
- ectomere — any of the blastomeres that participate in the development of the ectoderm.
- endosome — (biology) An endocytic vacuole through which molecules internalized during endocytosis pass en route to lysosomes.
- episomes — Plural form of episome.
- epistome — (zoology) a mouth-covering lobe or ridge in bryozoans and phoronids.
- epitomes — Plural form of epitome.
- exosomes — Plural form of exosome.
- exposome — a collection of environmental factors, such as stress and diet, to which an individual is exposed and which can have an effect on health
- fathomed — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- fearsome — causing fear: a fearsome noise.
- fivesome — A group of five persons or things.
- flaysome — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Terrifying; frightful.
- fleasome — having fleas; flea-ridden
- fomented — Simple past tense and past participle of foment.
- fomenter — One who incites or promotes.
- foursome — a company or set of four; two couples; a quartet: to make up a foursome for bridge.
- fretsome — Fretful, fidgety, restless.
- fullsome — Misspelling of fulsome.
- gamesome — playful; frolicsome.
- geometer — geometrician.
- geometry — the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties of space.
- gladsome — giving or causing joy; delightful.
- gleesome — gleeful; merry.
- gonosome — the individuals, collectively, in a colonial animal that are involved with reproduction
- grewsome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- groomers — Plural form of groomer.
- gruesome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- gunwomen — Plural form of gunwoman.
- halidome — a holy place, as a church or sanctuary.
- handsome — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- home box — (jargon, computer) A hacker's personal machine, especially one he or she owns. "Yeah? Well, *my* home box runs a full 4.2BSD, so there!"
- home boy — a person from the same locality as oneself.
- home key — See under home row.
- home row — (in touch typing) the row on a typewriter or computer keyboard that contains the keys (home keys) to which four fingers of each hand return as a base, on a QWERTY keyboard being A, S, D, and F for the left hand and J, K, L, and the semicolon for the right.
- home run — Baseball. a hit that enables a batter, without the aid of a fielding error, to score a run by making a nonstop circuit of the bases.
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- homebody — a person who prefers pleasures and activities that center around the home; stay-at-home.
- homeborn — That which is born in a given place, native, indigenous.
- homeboys — Plural form of homeboy.
- homebred — bred or raised at home; native; indigenous; domestic.
- homebrew — beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
- homecare — The care and maintenance of one's home.
- homefelt — (of an emotion) felt personally or intimately; private; inward
- homegirl — a girl or woman from the same locality as oneself.
- homeland — one's native land.