8-letter words that end in m
- graecism — the spirit of Greek thought, art, etc.
- grandmom — (US) Grandmother.
- grantham — a town in E England, in Lincolnshire: birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton and Margaret Thatcher. Pop: 34 592 (2001)
- graphium — a writing stylus
- gregatim — in flocks or crowds
- grey gum — any of various eucalyptus trees of New South Wales having dull grey bark, esp Eucalyptus punctata
- groupism — the tendency to conform to the general thinking and behavior of a group.
- grubworm — grub (def 1).
- gruiform — of or relating to birds of the order Gruiformes, including cranes, rails, and coots.
- guaiacum — any of several tropical American trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Guaiacum of the caltrop family; lignum vitae.
- guar gum — a plant, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, of the legume family, grown as a forage crop and for its seeds, which produce a gum (guar gum) used as a thickening agent and stabilizer in foods and pharmaceuticals and as sizing for paper and cloth.
- gun room — a room in which guns are kept.
- guttatim — (in prescriptions) drop by drop.
- gynecium — gynoecium.
- gyp-room — a pantry, especially one attached to a student's quarters.
- gypsyism — the behaviour of or connected with gypsies
- hairworm — any small, slender worm of the family Trichostrongylidae, parasitic in the alimentary canals of various animals.
- haloform — A compound derived from methane by substituting three hydrogen atoms for halogen atoms, e.g., chloroform.
- halutzim — a person who immigrates to Israel to establish or join a settlement for accomplishing tasks, as clearing the land or planting trees, that are necessary to future development of the country.
- handloom — a loom operated manually, in contrast to a power loom.
- hasidism — the principles and practices of the Hasidim.
- headroom — Nautical. the clear space between two decks.
- hebraism — an expression or construction distinctive of the Hebrew language.
- hedonism — the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the highest good.
- heirloom — a family possession handed down from generation to generation.
- helenium — An American plant of the daisy family that bears many red to yellow flowers, each having a prominent central disk.
- helotism — the state or quality of being a helot; serfdom.
- hemogram — a graphic record of the cellular elements of the blood.
- herefrom — (archaic) henceforth, from now on.
- hetarism — Alternative form of hetaerism.
- hexagram — a six-pointed starlike figure formed of two equilateral triangles placed concentrically with each side of a triangle parallel to a side of the other and on opposite sides of the center.
- hinduism — the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.
- hobbyism — the practice of pursuing a hobby
- hog plum — yellow mombin.
- hold 'em — a form of poker in which each player is dealt two cards face down and then makes the best five-card hand by combining these with three of five communal cards that are dealt to the center of the table.
- hologram — a negative produced by exposing a high-resolution photographic plate, without camera or lens, near a subject illuminated by monochromatic, coherent radiation, as from a laser: when it is placed in a beam of coherent light a true three-dimensional image of the subject is formed.
- homeroom — a classroom in which pupils in the same grade or division of a grade meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher, who takes attendance and administers other school business.
- hookworm — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
- hornbeam — any North American shrub or tree belonging to the genus Carpinus, of the birch family, yielding a hard, heavy wood, as C. caroliniana (American hornbeam)
- hornworm — the larva of any of several hawk moths, having a hornlike process at the rear of the abdomen.
- hoteldom — The world or sphere of hotels.
- hum-drum — lacking variety; boring; dull: a humdrum existence.
- humanism — any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.
- humorism — (medicine, historical) The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.
- humstrum — a musical instrument that is of crude construction or out of tune
- hylicism — the philosophy that the only thing that can be proven to exist is matter and that everything, including consciousness, is as a result of interaction with material things. Also called materialism
- hymenium — the sporogenous layer in a fungus, composed of asci or basidia often interspersed with various sterile structures, as paraphyses.
- hypernym — superordinate (def 4).
- hypoderm — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypogeum — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.