| aerogramme | (noun) a letter sent by air mail | Synonyms: aerogram, air letter, airmail letter |
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| agammaglobulinemia | (noun) a rare immunological disorder characterized by the virtual absence of gamma globulin in the blood and consequent susceptibility to infection | - |
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| ammeter | (noun) a meter that measures the flow of electrical current in amperes | - |
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| ammine | (noun) a complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules | - |
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| ammo | (noun) projectiles to be fired from a gun | Synonyms: ammunition |
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| ammobium | (noun) any plant of the genus Ammobium having yellow flowers and silvery foliage | - |
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| ammonal | (noun) Ammonal is an explosive made up of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder. | - |
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| ammonia | (noun) a pungent gas compounded of nitrogen and hydrogen (NH3) | - |
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| (noun) a water solution of ammonia | Synonyms: ammonia water, ammonium hydroxide |
| ammoniac | (noun) the aromatic gum of the ammoniac plant | Synonyms: gum ammoniac |
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| ammonification | (noun) impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia | - |
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| ammonite | (noun) one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks | Synonyms: ammonoid |
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| ammonium | (noun) the ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion | Synonyms: ammonium ion |
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| ammoniuria | (noun) excessive ammonia in the urine | - |
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| ammonoid | (noun) one of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks | Synonyms: ammonite |
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| ammunition | (noun) projectiles to be fired from a gun | Synonyms: ammo |
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| (noun) information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint | - |
| (noun) any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction | - |
| backgammon | (noun) a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice | - |
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| chammy | (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather |
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| clamminess | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: dankness |
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| clammyweed | (noun) strong-scented herb common in southern United States covered with intermixed gland and hairs | Synonyms: Polanisia dodecandra, Polanisia graveolens |
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| clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
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| crammer | (noun) a textbook designed for cramming | - |
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| (noun) a special school where students are crammed | - |
| (noun) a student who crams | - |
| (noun) a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations | - |
| dammar | (noun) any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine | Synonyms: damar, dammar resin, gum dammar |
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| diagramming | (noun) providing a chart or outline of a system | Synonyms: schematisation, schematization |
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| endopsammon | (noun) The microscopic fauna of sand and mud. | - |
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| epipsammon | (noun) Microscopic flora and fauna found on the surface of and/or attached to sand grains. | - |
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| flammability | (noun) the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly | Synonyms: inflammability |
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| gamma | (noun) the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| (noun) a unit of magnetic field strength equal to one-hundred-thousandth of an oersted | - |
| gammon | (noun) meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) | Synonyms: ham, jambon |
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| (noun) hind portion of a side of bacon | - |
| gammopathy | (noun) a disturbance in the synthesis of immunoglobulins; proteins having antibody activity increase greatly in the blood | - |
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| gramma | (noun) pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America | Synonyms: grama, grama grass, gramma grass |
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| grammar | (noun) the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) | - |
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| grammarian | (noun) a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax | Synonyms: syntactician |
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| grammatolatry | (noun) the worship of words | Synonyms: verbolatry, word-worship |
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| gramme | (noun) a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram | Synonyms: g, gm, gram |
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| hammer | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammering, pound, pounding |
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| (noun) a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking | - |
| (noun) a power tool for drilling rocks | Synonyms: power hammer |
| (noun) a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate | - |
| (noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: mallet |
| (noun) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled | Synonyms: cock |
| (noun) a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw | - |
| (noun) the ossicle attached to the eardrum | Synonyms: malleus |
| hammerhead | (noun) medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous | Synonyms: hammerhead shark |
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| (noun) the striking part of a hammer | - |
| (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
| hammering | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, pound, pounding |
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| hammerlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back | - |
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| hammertoe | (noun) a deformed toe which is bent in a clawlike arch | - |
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| hamming | (noun) poor acting by a ham actor | Synonyms: overacting |
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| hammock | (noun) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily | Synonyms: sack |
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| (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hillock, hummock, knoll, mound |
| hellgrammiate | (noun) large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait | Synonyms: dobson |
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| hypogammaglobulinemia | (noun) an abnormally low concentration of gamma globulin in the blood and increased risk of infection | - |
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| inflammability | (noun) the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly | Synonyms: flammability |
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| inflammation | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflaming |
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| (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, kindling, lighting |
| (noun) a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat | Synonyms: redness, rubor |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, excitement, fervor, fervour |
| jackhammer | (noun) a hammer driven by compressed air | Synonyms: air hammer, pneumatic hammer |
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| jammer | (noun) a transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming | - |
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| jammies | (noun) (usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers | Synonyms: pajama, pj's, pyjama |
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| jamming | (noun) deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems | Synonyms: electronic jamming, jam |
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| katzenjammer | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, uproar |
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| (noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: hangover |
| lammergeier | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeyer |
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| lammergeyer | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeier |
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| mamma | (noun) milk-secreting organ of female mammals | Synonyms: mammary gland |
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| (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
| mammal | (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammalian |
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| mammalian | (noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammal |
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| mammalogist | (noun) one skilled in the study of mammals | - |
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| mammalogy | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies mammals | - |
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| mammee | (noun) globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh | Synonyms: mamey, mammee apple |
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| (noun) brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet | Synonyms: marmalade plum, sapote |
| (noun) tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind | Synonyms: mamey, Mammea americana, mammee apple, mammee tree |
| (noun) tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum | Synonyms: Calocarpum zapota, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota, sapote |
| mammilla | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mamilla, nipple, pap, teat, tit |
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| mammillaria | (noun) any cactus of the genus Mammillaria | - |
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| mammogram | (noun) X-ray film of the soft tissue of the breast | - |
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| mammography | (noun) a diagnostic procedure to detect breast tumors by the use of X rays | - |
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| mammon | (noun) wealth regarded as an evil influence | - |
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| mammoth | (noun) any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks | - |
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| mammothermography | (noun) the use of thermography to detect breast tumors (which appear as hot spots) | - |
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| mammy | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
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| (noun) an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S. | - |
| milliammeter | (noun) a sensitive ammeter graduated in milliamperes | - |
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| multiprogramming | (noun) the execution of two or more computer programs by a single computer | Synonyms: concurrent execution |
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| nammad | (noun) an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt | Synonyms: numdah, numdah rug |
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| oriflamme | (noun) a red or orange-red flag used as a standard by early French kings | - |
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| (noun) an inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle | - |
| paleomammalogy | (noun) the paleobiology of ancient mammals | - |
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| programma | (noun) an edict that has been publicly posted | - |
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| programmability | (noun) the abstract capability of being programmable. | - |
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| programme | (noun) a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation | Synonyms: program |
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| (noun) a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished | Synonyms: plan, program |
| (noun) a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need | Synonyms: program |
| (noun) an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event | Synonyms: program |
| (noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: broadcast, program |
| (noun) (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute | Synonyms: computer program, computer programme, program |
| (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, curriculum, program, syllabus |
| programmer | (noun) a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs | Synonyms: coder, computer programmer, software engineer |
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| programming | (noun) creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something | Synonyms: computer programing, computer programming, programing |
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| (noun) setting an order and time for planned events | Synonyms: programing, scheduling |
| protomammal | (noun) probably warm-blooded; considered direct ancestor of mammals | Synonyms: therapsid |
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| psammoma | (noun) a tumor derived from fibrous tissue of the meninges or choroid plexus or certain other structures associated with the brain; characterized by sandlike particles | Synonyms: sand tumor |
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| rammer | (noun) a tool for driving something with force | - |
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| scammer | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, swindler |
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| scammony | (noun) twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin | Synonyms: Convolvulus scammonia |
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| (noun) resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia | - |
| (noun) tropical American morning glory | Synonyms: Ipomoea orizabensis |
| scammonyroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, manroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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| shammer | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham |
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| (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: malingerer, skulker |
| shammy | (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy, chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy leather |
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| slammer | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky |
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| (noun) a person who closes things violently | - |
| sledgehammer | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledge |
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| spammer | (noun) someone who sends unwanted email (often in bulk) | - |
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| stammel | (noun) a coarse woolen cloth formerly used for undergarments and usually dyed bright red | - |
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| stammer | (noun) a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds | Synonyms: stutter |
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| stammerer | (noun) someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions | Synonyms: stutterer |
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| tammy | (noun) plain-woven (often glazed) fabric of wool or wool and cotton used especially formerly for linings and garments and curtains | - |
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| (noun) a woolen cap of Scottish origin | Synonyms: tam-o'-shanter, tam |
| teammate | (noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: mate |
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| trammel | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, hamper, shackle |
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| (noun) a restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble | - |
| (noun) an adjustable pothook set in a fireplace | - |
| (noun) a fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh | Synonyms: trammel net |
| triphammer | (noun) a massive power hammer; raised by a cam until released to fall under gravity | - |
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| ungrammaticality | (noun) The state or quality of not following rules of grammar. | - |
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| whammy | (noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: curse, hex, jinx |
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| (noun) a serious or devastating setback | - |
| windjammer | (noun) a large sailing ship | - |
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| yellowhammer | (noun) European bunting the male being bright yellow | Synonyms: Emberiza citrinella, yellow bunting |
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| (noun) large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail | Synonyms: Colaptes auratus, yellow-shafted flicker |