8-letter words that end in am
- marjoram — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Origanum, of the mint family, especially O. majorana (sweet marjoram) having leaves used as seasoning in cooking.
- moharram — the first month of the Muslim calendar.
- monogram — a design consisting of two or more alphabetic letters combined or interlaced, commonly one's initials, often printed on stationery, embroidered on clothing, etc.
- moonbeam — a ray of moonlight.
- muharram — Moharram.
- muqaddam — a leader or person of authority
- nanogram — one billionth of a gram. Abbreviation: ng.
- nomogram — a graph, usually containing three parallel scales graduated for different variables so that when a straight line connects values of any two, the related value may be read directly from the third at the point intersected by the line.
- nonagram — A geometric figure which resembles a pentagram except that it has nine points instead of five.
- nuoc mam — a fish sauce used in Vietnamese cookery.
- off-beam — If you describe something or someone as off-beam, you mean that they are wrong or inaccurate.
- old adam — (in Christian theology) human nature lacking in grace; humans in their unredeemed state.
- ondogram — The recording produced by an ondograph.
- onstream — Being produced.
- optogram — (physiology) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple.
- outdream — to exceed in dreaming
- outgleam — to gleam more than
- overcram — (transitive) To cram too full; to overstuff.
- oxazepam — a benzodiazepine, C 1 5 H 1 1 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the management of anxiety, insomnia, and alcohol withdrawal.
- panislam — all of Islam or the Muslim world
- pappadam — an Indian flatbread made of lentil flour, often topped with chutney or various dips or salsas.
- paragram — a play on words; a pun
- phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
- picloram — a colorless powder, C 6 H 3 Cl 3 N 2 O 2 , used as a systemic herbicide for controlling annual weeds and deep-rooted perennials on noncrop land.
- picogram — one trillionth of a gram. Abbreviation: pg.
- polyfoam — a rigid, semirigid, or rubbery foam composed of minute bubbles of air or carbon dioxide embedded in a polymer matrix, often polyurethane: used in mattresses, padding, insulation, etc.
- rehoboam — the successor of Solomon and the first king of Judah, reigned 922?–915? b.c. I Kings 11:43.
- renogram — a kidney scan monitoring the throughput by the kidney of a radioactive chemical injected into the bloodstream
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- sea foam — the foam of the sea.
- skiagram — a picture made by outlining and shading a subject's shadow.
- sonogram — the visual image produced by reflected sound waves in a diagnostic ultrasound examination.
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- tag team — a team of two wrestlers who compete one at a time against either member of another such team, the wrestlers in the ring changing places with those outside by tagging them.
- tag-team — designating or having to do with a form of professional wrestling in which two-member teams compete, with teammates alternating in the ring
- telegram — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
- tie beam — a horizontal timber or the like for connecting two structural members to keep them from spreading apart, as a beam connecting the feet of two principal rafters in a roof truss.
- tomogram — the visual record produced by tomography.
- tristram — one of the knights of the Round Table, whose love for Iseult, wife of King Mark, is the subject of many romances.
- upstream — toward or in the higher part of a stream; against the current.
- venogram — an x-ray of the veins produced by venography.
- videocam — A videocam is a camera that you can carry around with you that records moving images.
- west ham — a former borough, now part of Newham, in SE England, near London.
- whimwham — any odd or fanciful object or thing; a gimcrack.
- wild yam — any of several uncultivated yams, especially Dioscorea villosa, of the U.S., having a woody, tuberous root.
- wing dam — a jetty for diverting the current of a stream.
- zymogram — a band of electrophoretic medium showing a pattern of enzymes following electrophoresis