Words that rhyme with am
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scram
v 1: leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!" [syn: scram, buzz off, fuck off, get, bugger off] -
goddam
adv 1: extremely; "you are goddamn right!" [syn: goddam, goddamn, goddamned] adj 1: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal] -
lamb
n 1: young sheep 2: English essayist (1775-1834) [syn: Lamb, Charles Lamb, Elia] 3: a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) 4: a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) [syn: lamb, dear] 5: the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food v 1: give birth to a lamb; "the ewe lambed" -
kilogram
n 1: one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a kilogram is approximately 2.2 pounds" [syn: kilogram, kg, kilo] -
aerogram
n 1: a letter sent by air mail [syn: airmail letter, air letter, aerogram, aerogramme] -
anagram
n 1: a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase v 1: read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning [syn: anagram, anagrammatize, anagrammatise] -
audiogram
n 1: a graphical representation of a person's auditory sensitivity to sound -
bam
n 1: an ancient city in southeastern Iran; destroyed by an earthquake in 2003 2: a sudden very loud noise [syn: bang, clap, eruption, blast, bam] -
cablegram
n 1: a telegram sent abroad [syn: cable, cablegram, overseas telegram] -
cam
n 1: a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River [syn: Cam, River Cam, Cam River] 2: a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion -
cardiogram
n 1: a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph [syn: electrocardiogram, cardiogram, EKG, ECG] -
chromatogram
n 1: the recording (column or paper strip) on which the constituents of a mixture are adsorbed in chromatography -
clam
n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness 2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam] 3: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams v 1: gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean -
cofferdam
n 1: large watertight chamber used for construction under water [syn: caisson, pneumatic caisson, cofferdam] -
condemn
v 1: express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated" [syn: condemn, reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriate] 2: declare or judge unfit for use or habitation; "The building was condemned by the inspector" 3: compel or force into a particular state or activity; "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence" 4: demonstrate the guilt of (someone); "Her strange behavior condemned her" 5: pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison" [syn: sentence, condemn, doom] 6: appropriate (property) for public use; "the county condemned the land to build a highway" -
cram
v 1: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad] 2: put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase" 3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone] 4: prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam -
cryptogam
n 1: formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi -
cryptogram
n 1: a piece of writing in code or cipher [syn: cryptogram, cryptograph, secret writing] -
dam
n 1: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea [syn: dam, dike, dyke] 2: a metric unit of length equal to ten meters [syn: decameter, dekameter, decametre, dekametre, dam, dkm] 3: female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock v 1: obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River" [syn: dam, dam up] -
damn
adv 1: extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all- fired aggressive?" [syn: bloody, damn, all-fired] adj 1: used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" [syn: damn, goddamn] 2: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal] n 1: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam] v 1: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" [syn: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict] [ant: bless] -
decagram
n 1: 10 grams [syn: dekagram, decagram, dkg, dag] -
diagram
n 1: a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts v 1: make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed [syn: diagram, plot] -
diaphragm
n 1: a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically" [syn: diaphragm, stop] 2: (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration [syn: diaphragm, midriff] 3: a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix [syn: diaphragm, pessary, contraceptive diaphragm] 4: electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves -
dithyramb
n 1: a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing 2: (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus) -
doorjamb
n 1: a jamb for a door [syn: doorjamb, doorpost] -
dram
n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains [syn: dram, drachm, drachma] 2: 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams 3: the basic unit of money in Armenia -
epigram
n 1: a witty saying [syn: epigram, quip] -
exam
n 1: a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions" [syn: examination, exam, test] -
flimflam
n 1: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam] -
fluidram
n 1: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters [syn: fluidram, fluid dram, fluid drachm, drachm] 2: a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce [syn: fluidram, fluid dram, fluid drachm, drachm] -
gem
n 1: art highly prized for its beauty or perfection [syn: gem, treasure] 2: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem, gemstone, stone] 3: a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, gem] 4: a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan [syn: muffin, gem] 5: a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, gem, precious stone] -
goddamn
adv 1: extremely; "you are goddamn right!" [syn: goddam, goddamn, goddamned] adj 1: used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" [syn: damn, goddamn] 2: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal] -
graham
n 1: United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918) [syn: Graham, Billy Graham, William Franklin Graham] 2: United States dancer and choreographer whose work was noted for its austerity and technical rigor (1893-1991) [syn: Graham, Martha Graham] 3: flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage) [syn: whole wheat flour, graham flour, graham, whole meal flour] -
gramme
n 1: a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram [syn: gram, gramme, gm, g] -
ham
n 1: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn: ham, jambon, gammon] 2: (Old Testament) son of Noah 3: a licensed amateur radio operator 4: an unskilled actor who overacts [syn: ham, ham actor] v 1: exaggerate one's acting [syn: overact, ham it up, ham, overplay] [ant: underact, underplay] -
heliogram
n 1: a message transmitted by means of the sun's rays -
hem
n 1: the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down; "the hem of her dress was stained"; "let down the hem"; "he stitched weights into the curtain's hem"; "it seeped along the hem of his jacket" 2: the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc. [syn: hem, ahem] v 1: fold over and sew together to provide with a hem; "hem my skirt" 2: utter `hem' or `ahem' -
hexagram
n 1: a regular polygon formed by extending each of the sides of a regular hexagon to form two equilateral triangles -
histogram
n 1: a bar chart representing a frequency distribution; heights of the bars represent observed frequencies -
hologram
n 1: the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography [syn: hologram, holograph] -
iamb
n 1: a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables [syn: iamb, iambus] -
ideogram
n 1: a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it; "Chinese characters are ideograms" [syn: ideogram, ideograph] -
imam
n 1: (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide [syn: imam, imaum] -
jam
n 1: preserve of crushed fruit 2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] 3: a dense crowd of people [syn: crush, jam, press] 4: deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems [syn: jamming, electronic jamming, jam] v 1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam] 2: push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor" 3: crush or bruise; "jam a toe" [syn: jam, crush] 4: interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station" [syn: jam, block] 5: get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed" 6: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad] 7: block passage through; "obstruct the path" [syn: obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up] [ant: disengage, free] -
jamb
n 1: upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame -
lam
n 1: a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam" [syn: getaway, lam] v 1: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" [syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away] 2: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh, lam, flail] -
logjam
n 1: any stoppage attributable to unusual activity; "the legislation ran into a logjam" 2: an immovable mass of logs blocking a river -
logogram
n 1: a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese" [syn: logogram, logograph] -
milldam
n 1: dam to make a millpond to provide power for a water mill -
monogram
n 1: a graphic symbol consisting of 2 or more letters combined (usually your initials); printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing -
pentagram
n 1: a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon [syn: pentacle, pentagram, pentangle] -
phlegm
n 1: apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions [syn: emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality] 2: expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness [syn: phlegm, sputum] 3: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends" [syn: languor, lethargy, sluggishness, phlegm, flatness] -
phonogram
n 1: any written symbol standing for a sound or syllable or morpheme or word -
pram
n 1: a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around [syn: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher] -
program
n 1: a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue" [syn: plan, program, programme] 2: a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need; "he proposed an elaborate program of public works"; "working mothers rely on the day care program" [syn: program, programme] 3: a radio or television show; "did you see his program last night?" [syn: broadcast, program, programme] 4: a document stating the aims and principles of a political party; "their candidate simply ignored the party platform"; "they won the election even though they offered no positive program" [syn: platform, political platform, political program, program] 5: an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event; "you can't tell the players without a program" [syn: program, programme] 6: an integrated course of academic studies; "he was admitted to a new program at the university" [syn: course of study, program, programme, curriculum, syllabus] 7: (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code" [syn: program, programme, computer program, computer programme] 8: a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation; "the program lasted more than two hours" [syn: program, programme] v 1: arrange a program of or for; "program the 80th birthday party" [syn: program, programme] 2: write a computer program [syn: program, programme] -
programme
n 1: an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event; "you can't tell the players without a program" [syn: program, programme] 2: an integrated course of academic studies; "he was admitted to a new program at the university" [syn: course of study, program, programme, curriculum, syllabus] 3: a radio or television show; "did you see his program last night?" [syn: broadcast, program, programme] 4: (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code" [syn: program, programme, computer program, computer programme] 5: a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need; "he proposed an elaborate program of public works"; "working mothers rely on the day care program" [syn: program, programme] 6: a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue" [syn: plan, program, programme] 7: a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation; "the program lasted more than two hours" [syn: program, programme] v 1: write a computer program [syn: program, programme] 2: arrange a program of or for; "program the 80th birthday party" [syn: program, programme] -
quondam
adj 1: belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" [syn: erstwhile(a), former(a), old, onetime(a), one-time(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)] -
radiogram
n 1: a message transmitted by wireless telegraphy 2: a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays) [syn: radiogram, radiograph, shadowgraph, skiagraph, skiagram] -
ram
n 1: the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible [syn: random-access memory, random access memory, random memory, RAM, read/write memory] 2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries [syn: Aries, Ram] 3: the first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19 [syn: Aries, Aries the Ram, Ram] 4: a tool for driving or forcing something by impact 5: uncastrated adult male sheep; "a British term is `tup'" [syn: ram, tup] v 1: strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door" [syn: ram, ram down, pound] 2: force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" [syn: force, drive, ram] 3: undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post" [syn: crash, ram] 4: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad] -
scam
n 1: a fraudulent business scheme [syn: scam, cozenage] v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con] -
seismogram
n 1: the graphical record of an earth tremor made by using a seismograph -
sham
adj 1: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham] n 1: something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be [syn: fake, sham, postiche] 2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player] v 1: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: simulate, assume, sham, feign] 2: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble] -
slam
n 1: winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge [syn: slam, sweep] 2: the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects 3: a forceful impact that makes a loud noise 4: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" [syn: shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe] v 1: close violently; "He slammed the door shut" [syn: slam, bang] 2: strike violently; "slam the ball" [syn: slam, bang] 3: dance the slam dance [syn: slam dance, slam, mosh, thrash] 4: throw violently; "He slammed the book on the table" [syn: slam, flap down] -
sonogram
n 1: an image of a structure that is produced by ultrasonography (reflections of high-frequency sound waves); used to observe fetal growth or to study bodily organs [syn: sonogram, echogram] -
spam
n 1: a canned meat made largely from pork 2: unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk) [syn: spam, junk e-mail] v 1: send unwanted or junk e-mail -
spectrogram
n 1: a photographic record of a spectrum [syn: spectrogram, spectrograph] -
stem
n 1: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical] 2: a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ [syn: stalk, stem] 3: cylinder forming a long narrow part of something [syn: shank, stem] 4: the tube of a tobacco pipe 5: front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow, stem] 6: a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it [syn: stem turn, stem] v 1: grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war" 2: cause to point inward; "stem your skis" 3: stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" [syn: stem, stanch, staunch, halt] 4: remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed" -
tam
n 1: a woolen cap of Scottish origin [syn: tam, tam-o'-shanter, tammy] -
tarn
n 1: a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers) -
telegram
n 1: a message transmitted by telegraph [syn: telegram, wire] -
thermogram
n 1: a graphical record produced by a thermograph -
tram
n 1: a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers [syn: tramway, tram, aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway] 2: a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine; "a tramcar carries coal out of a coal mine" [syn: tramcar, tram] 3: a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity [syn: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car] v 1: travel by tram -
wham
v 1: hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack, wham, whop, wallop] -
yam
n 1: edible tuber of any of several yams 2: any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots [syn: yam, yam plant] 3: sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked 4: edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food -
abraham
n 1: the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son; "Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each has a special claim on Abraham" [syn: Abraham, Ibrahim] -
madame
n 1: title used for a married Frenchwoman -
wolfram
n 1: a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite [syn: tungsten, wolfram, W, atomic number 74] -
gram
n 1: a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram [syn: gram, gramme, gm, g] 2: Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938) [syn: Gram, Hans C. J. Gram] -
sam
n 1: a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target [syn: surface-to-air missile, SAM] -
tamm
n 1: Russian physicist (1895-1971) [syn: Tamm, Igor Tamm, Igor Yevgeneevich Tamm] -
siam
n 1: a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula; "Thailand is the official name of the former Siam" [syn: Thailand, Kingdom of Thailand, Siam] -
em
n 1: a quad with a square body; "since `em quad' is hard to distinguish from `en quad', printers sometimes called it a `mutton quad'" [syn: em, em quad, mutton quad] 2: a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing [syn: em, pica em, pica] -
jem
n 1: a terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings [syn: Jaish-i-Mohammed, Jaish-e-Muhammad, JEM, Army of Muhammad] -
lem
n 1: a spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back [syn: lunar excursion module, lunar module, LEM] -
m
adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, m, k] n 1: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) [syn: meter, metre, m] 2: concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution [syn: molarity, molar concentration, M] 3: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard] 4: a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes [syn: megabyte, M, MB] 5: a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes [syn: megabyte, mebibyte, M, MB, MiB] 6: the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: M, m] -
mam
n 1: a member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala 2: a Mayan language spoken by the Mam -
rem
n 1: a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep [syn: paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, REM sleep, rapid eye movement, REM] 2: (Roentgen Equivalent Man) the dosage of ionizing radiation that will cause the same amount of injury to human tissue as 1 roentgen of X-rays -
durham
n 1: a city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University 2: English breed of short-horned cattle [syn: Durham, shorthorn] -
fm
n 1: modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave [syn: frequency modulation, FM] 2: a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons [syn: fermium, Fm, atomic number 100] -
pm
n 1: an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease [syn: autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination] 2: a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uranium [syn: promethium, Pm, atomic number 61] 3: the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom [syn: Prime Minister, PM, premier] 4: modulation of the phase of the carrier wave [syn: phase modulation, PM] -
cardizem
n 1: a calcium blocker (trade name Cardizem) used in treating hypertension or angina or heart failure [syn: diltiazem, Cardizem] -
rpm
n 1: rate of revolution of a motor; "the engine was doing 6000 revs" [syn: revolutions per minute, rpm, rev] -
engram
n 1: a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory [syn: engram, memory trace] -
drachm
n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains [syn: dram, drachm, drachma] 2: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters [syn: fluidram, fluid dram, fluid drachm, drachm] 3: a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce [syn: fluidram, fluid dram, fluid drachm, drachm] -
gam
n 1: a herd of whales -
annam
n 1: a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945 [syn: Vietnam, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Viet Nam, Annam] -
assam
n 1: state in northeastern India -
dirham
n 1: 100 dirhams equal 1 riyal in Qatar [syn: Qatari dirham, dirham] 2: the basic unit of money in the United Arab Emirates; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: United Arab Emirate dirham, dirham] 3: the basic unit of money in Morocco; equal to 100 centimes [syn: Moroccan dirham, dirham] 4: 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Tunisia [syn: Tunisian dirham, dirham] 5: 100 dirhams equal 1 dinar in Libya [syn: Libyan dirham, dirham] 6: worth one tenth of a Kuwaiti dinar; equal 100 fils [syn: Kuwaiti dirham, dirham] -
potsdam
n 1: a city in northeastern Germany; site of the Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945 -
priam
n 1: (Greek mythology) the last king of Troy; father of Hector and Paris and Cassandra
See also am definition and am synonyms
