8-letter words that end in m
- familism — the subordination of the personal interests and prerogatives of an individual to the values and demands of the family: Familism characterized the patriarchal family.
- fan palm — a palm having fan-shaped leaves, as the talipot.
- fan worm — feather-duster worm.
- fanatism — Excessive intolerance of opposing views.
- far from — not at all
- faradism — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
- fascinum — An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites.
- fat farm — a sanitarium or a resort that specializes in helping people lose weight.
- fatalism — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- fidelism — Castroism.
- filiform — threadlike; filamentous.
- finalism — the doctrine or belief that all events are determined by their purposes or goals.
- finitism — the view that only those entities may be admitted to mathematics that can be constructed in a finite number of steps, and only those propositions entertained whose truth can be proved in a finite number of steps
- fireroom — a chamber in which the boilers of a steam vessel are fired.
- fireworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Rhopobota naevana (black-headed fireworm) which feeds on the leaves of cranberries and causes them to wither.
- fishworm — an earthworm.
- flatform — A type of shoe with a flat, platform sole.
- flatworm — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having bilateral symmetry and a soft, solid, usually flattened body, including the planarians, tapeworms, and trematodes; platyhelminth.
- flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- fogeydom — the state or disposition of a fogey
- foreboom — the boom of a foremast
- foredoom — to doom beforehand; destine.
- foreroom — A room near the entrance of a building; a front room.
- fpm dram — Fast Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory
- francium — a radioactive element of the alkali metal group. Symbol: Fr; atomic number: 87.
- freeform — Alternative spelling of free-form.
- freemium — a sales strategy, especially on the Internet, in which the basic product or service is free, but customers are charged for additional features and content.
- frenulum — Anatomy, Zoology. a small frenum.
- fumarium — A smoke chamber used in Ancient Rome to enhance the flavor of wine.
- fur farm — a farm on which animals, as minks, are raised for their pelts.
- furculum — furcula.
- fusarium — any fungus of the genus Fusarium, occurring primarily in temperate regions and causing a variety of diseases in plants and animals, producing in humans a loss of fingernails and sometimes blindness.
- fusiform — spindle-shaped; rounded and tapering from the middle toward each end, as some roots.
- futurism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of the fine arts developed originally by a group of Italian artists about 1910 in which forms derived chiefly from cubism were used to represent rapid movement and dynamic motion.
- galbanum — a gum resin with a peculiar, strong odor, obtained from certain Asian plants of the genus Ferula, used in incense and formerly in medicine.
- galenism — the medical system or principles of Galen.
- gapeworm — a nematode worm, Syngamus trachea, that causes gapes.
- gasiform — having the form of gas; gaseous.
- gaullism — a political movement in France led by Charles de Gaulle.
- genogram — a graphic representation of the personalities and interplay of generations within a family, used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior; a psychological family tree.
- geotherm — a line or surface within or on the earth connecting points of equal temperature
- geranium — any of numerous plants of the genus Geranium, which comprises the crane's-bills.
- giantism — Pathology. gigantism.
- glowworm — the wingless female or larva of the European beetle, Lampyris noctiluca, which emits a sustained greenish light.
- glucinum — (formerly) beryllium. Symbol: Gl.
- glum bum — a pessimistic person
- gluonium — glueball.
- gonidium — (in algae) any one-celled asexual reproductive body, as a tetraspore or zoospore.
- gradatim — (in prescriptions) by degrees; gradually.