7-Letter Words That Start With: AM

• (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)

• a large strong and aggressive woman

• mainly green tropical American parrots

• a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles)

• increase in size, volume or significance

• to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

• exaggerate or make bigger

• increase the volume of

• in an affable manner

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

• mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus

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

• a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles

• pertaining to or resembling amoebae

• 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