8-letter words that end in me
- displume — to strip of plumes; deplume.
- dolesome — doleful.
- douzieme — (in Swiss watchmaking) the 12th part of a ligne, used mainly to gauge the thickness of a movement.
- downcome — a downcomer.
- downhome — Alternative form of down-home.
- downtime — a time during a regular working period when an employee is not actively productive.
- drscheme — (Scheme) A popular Scheme implementation from the PLT team at Rice University.
- duelsome — having a propensity for duelling
- endosome — (biology) An endocytic vacuole through which molecules internalized during endocytosis pass en route to lysosomes.
- episteme — (philosophy) Scientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with 'empiricism'.
- epistome — (zoology) a mouth-covering lobe or ridge in bryozoans and phoronids.
- étatisme — the authoritarian control by the state
- 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
- facetime — Alternative form of face time.
- fearsome — causing fear: a fearsome noise.
- filename — an identifying name given to an electronically stored computer file, conforming to limitations imposed by the operating system, as in length or restricted choice of characters.
- fivesome — A group of five persons or things.
- flaysome — (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Terrifying; frightful.
- fleasome — having fleas; flea-ridden
- flextime — a system of working that allows an employee to choose, within limits, the hours for starting and leaving work each day.
- forename — a name that precedes the family name or surname; first name.
- foretime — former or past time; the past.
- 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.
- fulltime — Alternative form of full-time.
- gamesome — playful; frolicsome.
- gamodeme — an isolated breeding population
- gendarme — a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer.
- gladsome — giving or causing joy; delightful.
- gleesome — gleeful; merry.
- glosseme — (in glossematics) an irreducible, invariant form, as a morpheme or tagmeme, that functions as the smallest meaningful unit of linguistic signaling.
- god game — a computer roleplaying game in which the player controls the destiny of one or more avatars within a large virtual environment
- gonosome — the individuals, collectively, in a colonial animal that are involved with reproduction
- grandame — a grandmother.
- grapheme — a minimal unit of a writing system.
- grewsome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- gruesome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
- guisarme — a shafted weapon having as a head a curved, double-edged blade with a beak at the back.
- halftime — the period indicating completion of half the time allowed for an activity, as for a football or basketball game or an examination.
- 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.
- hometime — The time when pupils go home at the end of the school day.
- hostname — (computing) the unique name by which any device attached to a network is known.
- how come — in what way or manner; by what means?: How did the accident happen?
- ill fame — bad reputation, especially in sexual matters.
- initgame — (games) /in-it'gaym/ [IRC] An IRC version of the venerable trivia game "20 questions", in which one user changes his nick to the initials of a famous person or other named entity, and the others on the channel ask yes or no questions, with the one to guess the person getting to be "it" next. As a courtesy, the one picking the initials starts by providing a 4-letter hint of the form sex, nationality, life-status, reality-status. For example, MAAR means "Male, American, Alive, Real" (as opposed to "fictional"). Initgame can be surprisingly addictive. See also hing.
- isocryme — a line on a map connecting points that have the same temperature during the coldest period of a year
- jerksome — Indicative of quick, rapid movements; jerky.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989).
- jokesome — Joky, humorous.