7-letter words containing am
- bentham — Jeremy. 1748–1832, British philosopher and jurist: a founder of utilitarianism. His works include A Fragment on Government (1776) and Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
- bergama — a type of Turkish rug
- bergamo — a walled city in N Italy, in Lombardy. Pop: 113 143 (2001)
- bertram — a masculine name: dim. Bertie; var. Bertrand
- beshame — to cause to feel shame
- betacam — a high-quality professional video system
- bingham — George Caleb1811-79; U.S. painter
- blamers — to hold responsible; find fault with; censure: I don't blame you for leaving him.
- blaming — to hold responsible; find fault with; censure: I don't blame you for leaving him.
- bon ami — a good friend.
- bonamia — a parasite (Bonamia ostreae) which causes the disease bonamiasis in oysters
- brabham — Sir John Arthur, known as Jack. 1926–2014, Australian motor-racing driver: Formula One world champion 1959, 1960, and 1966
- bramble — Brambles are wild prickly bushes that produce blackberries.
- brambly — having or resembling brambles.
- bramley — a variety of cooking apple having juicy firm flesh
- breamed — to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.
- brecham — a straw collar for a draught-horse or ox
- brenham — a town in central Texas.
- brigham — a male given name.
- buckram — cotton or linen cloth stiffened with size, etc, used in lining or stiffening clothes, bookbinding, etc
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- by name — When you mention someone or something by name, or address someone by name, you use their name.
- by-name — a secondary name; cognomen; surname.
- c-clamp — a general-purpose clamp shaped like the letter C
- cad/cam — design and manufacturing by means of a computer system, as in the creation of complex wiring diagrams, the design of coordinated machine parts, etc.
- calamar — a squid
- calamus — any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus, some species of which are a source of rattan and canes
- camacho — Manuel Ávila [mah-nwel ah-vee-lah] /mɑˈnwɛl ˈɑ viˌlɑ/ (Show IPA). Manuel Avila Camacho.
- camaieu — a cameo
- camaron — a freshwater crustacean resembling the crayfish
- camauro — a crimson velvet cap trimmed with ermine, worn by the pope on nonliturgical occasions.
- cambelt — Part of an internal combustion engine that synchronizes the rotation of the crankshaft and the camshaft(s) so that the engine's valves open and close at the proper times during each cylinder's intake and exhaust strokes.
- cambers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of camber.
- cambial — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- cambion — Lb mythology The offspring of an incubus and a human.
- cambism — cambistry
- cambist — a dealer or expert in foreign exchange
- cambium — a meristem that increases the girth of stems and roots by producing additional xylem and phloem
- cambrai — a town in NE France: textile industry: scene of a battle in which massed tanks were first used and broke through the German line (November, 1917). Pop: 33 738 (1999)
- cambrel — gambrel.
- cambria — Wales
- cambric — a fine white linen or cotton fabric
- camcord — (rare, transitive) To record using a camcorder.
- camelid — of or relating to camels
- camelot — (in Arthurian legend) the English town where King Arthur's palace and court were situated
- camelry — the part of an army composed of troops mounted on camels
- camenae — a group of nymphs originally associated with a sacred spring in Rome, later identified with the Greek Muses
- cameral — of or relating to a judicial or legislative chamber
- cameras — Plural form of camera.
- cameron — David (William Donald). born 1966, British politician; leader of the Conservative party 2005–16; prime minister 2010–16