This is a list of words that end in ‘eam.’ A few words that end in ‘eam’ are no longer used in our current literature; therefore, you may not find a definition of those words in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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Abeam
Off to the side of a ship or plane especially at a right angle to the middle of the ship or plane’s length.
Adream
Dreaming.
Agleam
Gleaming especially with reflected light.
Airstream
A current of air; specifically : airflow.
Amidstream
In midstream.
Astream
Streaming.
Bairnteam
Brood, offspring.
Beam
A long piece of heavy often squared timber suitable for use in construction; a wood or metal cylinder in a loom on which the warp is wound; the part of a plow to which handles, standard, and coulter are attached.
Bloodstream
The flowing blood in a circulatory system; a mainstream of power or vitality.
Bream
A bronze-colored european freshwater cyprinid fish (abramis brama); broadly : any of various related fishes; any of various marine fish (family sparidae) related to the porgy —called also sea bream.
Breastbeam
A beam where the quarterdeck or forecastle breaks; the beam or rail over which newly woven cloth passes in a loom on its way to the take-up and cloth roll.
Breast-beam
A beam where the quarterdeck or forecastle breaks; the beam or rail over which newly woven cloth passes in a loom on its way to the take-up and cloth roll.
Candlebeam
A hanging wooden or metal lighting fixture holding several candles; a horizontal beam or rail used to hold liturgical or votive candles in old churches.
Candle-beam
A hanging wooden or metal lighting fixture holding several candles; a horizontal beam or rail used to hold liturgical or votive candles in old churches.
Cleam
Smear, daub, spread; adhere, stick.
Codlins-and-cream
Fireweed.
Cold-cream
A soothing and cleansing cosmetic.
Counterstream
A stream which runs counter to another; something (such as a political, cultural, or religious system) that is different from or opposed to the mainstream.
Cream
The yellowish part of milk containing from 18 to about 40 percent butterfat; a food prepared with cream; something having the consistency of cream; especially : a usually emulsified medicinal or cosmetic preparation.
Crossbeam
A transverse beam.
Cross-beam
A transverse beam.
Daydream
A pleasant visionary usually wishful creation of the imagination.
Day-dream
A pleasant visionary usually wishful creation of the imagination.
Deseam
To chip out or flame-cut seams or other similar surface defects from (semifinished metal).
Dewbeam
A ray of light reflected from dew.
Double-team
To block or guard (an opponent) with two players at one time.
Downstream
In the direction of or nearer to the mouth of a stream; in or toward the latter stages of a usually industrial process or the stages (such as marketing) after manufacture.
Dream
A series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep; an experience of waking life having the characteristics of a dream: such as; a visionary creation of the imagination : daydream.
Eyebeam
A radiant glance of the eye.
Eye-beam
A radiant glance of the eye.
Enseam
To free (as a hawk or horse) of superfluous fat : bring into hard condition; to lose excess weight : come into condition.
Foregleam
A premonitory gleam : forecast.
Fream
To make the roaring cry characteristic of rutting.
Full-cream
Containing cream.
Gleam
A transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light; a small bright light; glint.
Half-beam
A beam in a ship extending from one of the sides to a deck opening (as a hatchway).
Hammer-beam
Either of the short horizontal beams or cantilevers projecting from the top of a pair of opposite walls to support a roof principal for a gothic roof and thus dispense with the necessity for a tie beam.
H-beam
A beam like an i beam but with wider flanges.
Headstream
A stream that is the source of a river.
Hornbeam
Any of a genus (carpinus) of trees of the birch family having smooth gray bark and hard white wood.
I-beam
An iron or steel beam that is i-shaped in cross section.
Ice-cream
Of a color similar to that of vanilla ice cream.
Ice-stream
A valley glacier.
Inseam
The seam on the inside of the leg of a pair of pants; also : the length of this seam.
Interstream
Situated between streams.
Jetstream
A long narrow meandering current of high-speed winds near the tropopause blowing from a generally westerly direction and often exceeding a speed of 250 miles (402 kilometers) per hour.
Leam
A gleam of light : radiance.
Mainstream
A prevailing current or direction of activity or influence.
Microbeam
A beam of radiation of small cross section.
Midstream
The middle of a stream; an intermediate stage in an act or process.
Millstream
A stream whose flow is utilized to run a mill; millrace.
Moonbeam
A ray of light from the moon.
On-stream
In or into production.
Outseam
Prickseam.
Outstream
To stream out.
Overseam
A seam with raw edges on the outside overcast with short close stitches that is used especially for gloves.
Overstream
To stream or flow over.
Pipedream
An illusory or fantastic plan, hope, or story.
Pipe-dream
An illusory or fantastic plan, hope, or story.
Prickseam
A seam stitched on the outside (as of a glove) so that both raw edges show.
Prick-seam
A seam stitched on the outside (as of a glove) so that both raw edges show.
Quickbeam
Rowan tree.
Ream
A quantity of paper being 20 quires or variously 480, 500, or 516 sheets; a great amount —usually used in plural.
Redream
To dream or imagine (something) in a new or different way.
Reteam
To bring (people) together again in work or activity; to join with someone again or to come together again in work or activity.
Roundseam
A seam used to join the edges of canvas without lapping (as when sewing the bottom into a sea bag).
Scream
To voice a sudden sharp loud cry; to produce harsh high tones; to make a noise resembling a scream.
Sealed-beam
Being an electric lamp with a prefocused reflector and lens sealed in the lamp vacuum.
Seam
The joining of two pieces (as of cloth or leather) by sewing usually near the edge; the stitching used in such a joining; the space between adjacent planks or strakes of a ship.
Semibeam
Cantilever.
Slipstream
A stream of fluid (such as air or water) driven aft by a propeller; an area of reduced air pressure and forward suction immediately behind a rapidly moving vehicle.
Spring-beam
A beam uniting the outboard ends of the paddle beams of a ship and assisting to support the side of a paddle box.
Squeam
Qualm.
Steam
A vapor arising from a heated substance; the invisible vapor into which water is converted when heated to the boiling point; the mist formed by the condensation on cooling of water vapor.
Stream
A body of running water (such as a river or creek) flowing on the earth; also : any body of flowing fluid (such as water or gas); a steady succession (as of words or events); a constantly renewed or steady supply.
Sunbeam
A ray of sunlight.
Team
A number of persons associated together in work or activity: such as; a group on one side (as in football or a debate); crew, gang.
Thirdstream
Of, relating to, or being music that incorporates elements of classical music and jazz.
Underream
To enlarge (an oil-well hole) below the casing.
Unseam
To open the seams of.
Unteam
To unyoke a team from.
Upstream
In the direction opposite to the flow of a stream; in or to a position within the production stream closer to manufacturing processes; toward the beginning of a series of cellular processes : preceding a linked molecular event occurring in a sequence.
Up-stream
In the direction opposite to the flow of a stream; in or to a position within the production stream closer to manufacturing processes; toward the beginning of a series of cellular processes : preceding a linked molecular event occurring in a sequence.
Weathergleam
Clear or light sky near the horizon.
Weighbeam
A large steelyard.
Whitebeam
A european ornamental tree (sorbus aria or pyrus aria) having leaves with a white-tomentose undersurface, corymbose white flowers, and red fruits.
Widdendream
Mental excitement or confusion : a mad fit : fury.
The following words also end in eam; however, we couldn’t find definitions of these words from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
| Acream | Aerosteam |
| Asteam | Beseam |
| Bestream | Cheam |
| Coldstream | Counter-beam |
| Daybeam | Decream |
| Distream | Drawbeam |
| Eam | Embeam |
| Finish-ream | Fleam |
| Half-adream | Hardbeam |
| Insteam | Interseam |
| Interteam | Nauseam |
| Outbeam | Outdream |
| Outgleam | Outscream |
| Outsteam | Overdream |
| Overscream | Pentheam |
| Presteam | Quickenbeam |
| Reseam | Restream |
| Rough-ream | Steady-stream |
| Substream | Two-stream |
| Uncream | Underbeam |
| Underseam | Understream |
| Upsteam | Water-stream |
| Weam | Web-beam |
| Wheam | Whiteseam |
| Whitish-cream | Windstream |
