7-letter words that end in m
- bruxism — the habit of grinding the teeth, esp unconsciously
- buckram — cotton or linen cloth stiffened with size, etc, used in lining or stiffening clothes, bookbinding, etc
- budworm — a larval pest that feeds on buds and leaves
- burnham — Daniel Hudson, 1846–1912, U.S. architect and city planner.
- bushism — any apparently fatuous statement attributed to George W. Bush
- by-form — a subsidiary or variant form
- caconym — an erroneous name, esp in taxonomic classification
- 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.
- cadmium — Cadmium is a soft bluish-white metal that is used in the production of nuclear energy.
- caesium — a ductile silvery-white element of the alkali metal group that is the most electropositive metal. It occurs in pollucite and lepidolite and is used in photocells. The radioisotope caesium-137, with a half-life of 30.2 years, is used in radiotherapy. Symbol: Cs; atomic no: 55; atomic wt: 132.90543; valency: 1; relative density: 1.873; melting pt: 28.39±0.01°C; boiling pt: 671°C
- cainism — the first son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel. Gen. 4.
- calcium — Calcium is a soft white element which is found in bones and teeth, and also in limestone, chalk, and marble.
- cambism — cambistry
- cambium — a meristem that increases the girth of stems and roots by producing additional xylem and phloem
- caricom — Caribbean Community and Common Market
- castism — Alt form casteism.
- castrum — (historical) Among the Ancient Romans, a building or plot of land used as a military defensive position.
- catworm — an active carnivorous polychaete worm, Nephthys hombergii, that is about 10cm (4in) long, having a pearly sheen to its body: often dug for bait
- cellsim — (application) A program for modelling populations of biological cells.
- cenaeum — (in ancient geography) a NW promontory of Euboea.
- centrum — the main part or body of a vertebra
- charism — Theology. a divinely conferred gift or power.
- chatham — a town in SE England, in N Kent on the River Medway: formerly royal naval dockyard. Pop: 73 468 (2001)
- chefdom — the state or condition of being a chef
- chemism — chemical action
- chetrum — a Bhutanese unit of money, worth one hundredth of a ngultrum
- chillum — a short pipe, usually of clay, used esp for smoking cannabis
- chrisom — a white robe put on an infant at baptism and formerly used as a burial shroud if the infant died soon afterwards
- cladism — the cladistic method of classification.
- clonism — a series of clonic spasms
- clusium — ancient name of Chiusi.
- cocoyam — either of two food plants of West Africa, the taro or the yantia, both of which have edible underground stems
- comtism — the philosophy of Auguste Comte; positivism.
- con-dem — of or relating to the coalition government (2010–15) of the United Kingdom formed by the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats
- confirm — If something confirms what you believe, suspect, or fear, it shows that it is definitely true.
- conform — If something conforms to something such as a law or someone's wishes, it is of the required type or quality.
- copyism — the practice of copying slavishly
- cosmism — the philosophical theory that the cosmos is a self-existent whole and was not created by a god or gods
- coueism — a method of self-help stressing autosuggestion, popular especially in the U.S. c1920 and featuring the slogan “Day by day in every way I am getting better and better.”.
- cow gum — a colourless adhesive based on a natural rubber solution
- cranium — Your cranium is the round part of your skull that contains your brain.
- cretism — a lie or falsehood
- crissum — the area or feathers surrounding the cloaca of a bird
- crumbum — a foolish or despicable person
- cultism — The system or practice of a cult.
- cutworm — the caterpillar of various noctuid moths, esp those of the genus Argrotis, which is a pest of young crop plants in North America
- czardom — the domain of a czar.
- czarism — the Russian government under the czars
- dadaism — the style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work and who programmatically challenged established canons of art, thought, morality, etc.
- dashcam — a small video camera situated on the dashboard of a vehicle, used to record the view through the windscreen