8-Letter Words Starting AM & Ending S

• A form of pseudocopulation, found chiefly in amphibians and horseshoe crabs, in which a male grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process.

• an ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck; used to hold oil or wine

• the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise

• wait in hiding to attack

• hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing

• mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus

• tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain

• a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch

• (pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue

• resembling starch

• any of a group of proteins found in saliva and pancreatic juice and parts of plants; help convert starch to sugar

• an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams

• a combination or blend of diverse things