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8-letter words that end in rm

  • postform — to remould or reshape plastic after reheating
  • pro-form — a word used to replace or substitute for a word, phrase, or clause belonging to a given grammatical class, as a pronoun used to replace a noun or noun phrase, there used to replace an adverb or adverbial phrase of place, as in I parked the car near the entrance and left it there, or so used to substitute for a clause, as in Have they come? I think so.
  • puriform — resembling pus; purulent.
  • pyriform — pear-shaped.
  • ramiform — having the form of a branch; branchlike.
  • raniform — resembling a frog, froglike
  • reaffirm — to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
  • red worm — North Central, South Midland, and Southern U.S. an earthworm.
  • reinform — to inform again or anew
  • remiform — shaped like an oar.
  • reniform — kidney-shaped: a reniform leaf; hematite in reniform masses.
  • retiform — netlike; reticulate.
  • ringworm — any of a number of contagious skin diseases caused by certain parasitic fungi and characterized by the formation of ring-shaped eruptive patches.
  • rootworm — the larva of any of several insects, as the cucumber beetle, that feeds on the roots of plants.
  • rotiform — shaped like a wheel.
  • russwurmJohn Brown, 1799–1851, Jamaican-born journalist in the U.S. and (after 1829) journalist and statesman in Liberia.
  • sandworm — any of several marine worms that live in sand.
  • setiform — bristle-shaped; setaceous.
  • shipworm — any of various wormlike marine bivalve mollusks that burrow into the timbers of ship, wharves, etc.
  • shortarm — (of a punch) with the arm bent
  • side arm — a weapon, as a pistol or sword, carried at the side or in the belt.
  • silkworm — the larva of the Chinese silkworm moth, Bombyx mori, which spins a cocoon of commercially valuable silk.
  • slipform — a moveable mould for building large concrete structures such as roads, towers and bridges
  • slowworm — blindworm (def 2).
  • spanworm — measuringworm.
  • swingarm — the main part of the rear suspension on a motorcycle
  • taghairm — a form of divination once practised in the Highlands of Scotland
  • tapeworm — any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
  • tone arm — the free-swinging bracket of a phonograph containing the pickup.
  • tubeworm — any of various marine worms that produce and inhabit a tube, some being adapted to a hydrothermal vent environment.
  • tubiform — shaped like a tube.
  • unciform — hook-shaped.
  • underarm — of, situated, or for use under the arm or in the armpit: an underarm deodorant.
  • ursiform — having the form of a bear; bear-shaped: the ursiform koala.
  • variform — varied in form; having various forms.
  • vasiform — having the form of a duct or tube.
  • waveform — the shape of a wave, a graph obtained by plotting the instantaneous values of a periodic quantity against the time.
  • web farm — a large website that uses two or more servers to handle user requests
  • whipworm — any of several parasitic nematodes of the genus Trichuris, having a long, slender, whiplike anterior end.
  • windfarm — a large grouping of wind generators or wind plants located at a site having dependable strong winds.
  • wireworm — any of the slender, hard-bodied larvae of click beetles, many of which live underground and feed on the roots of plants.
  • woodworm — a worm or larva that breeds in or bores into wood.
  • wordform — One of the forms of a word.
  • zoosperm — Botany, Mycology Archaic. zoospore.
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