CLAMS

"CLAMS" is a plural of: clam.

Date "CLAMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: CLAMS

I know you're feeling pretty hey sailor up here about now. But if you would just let me order a bowl of fried clams we can all have smallpox tomorrow morning (George of the Jungle; writing credit: Jay Ward; Dana Olsen)

Clean clams crammed in clean cans. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• How to Catch Clams by the Bushel! (reference)

• Three Clams and an Oyster (reference)

• Recipes for Sea Food: How to Prepare and Serve Fish, Oysters, Clams, Scallops, Lobsters, Crabs, and Shrimp (reference)

• Clams, Mussels, Oysters, Scallops, and Snails: A Cookbook and a Memoir (reference)

• Clams, Oysters and Scallops (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Frugal Gourmet: Clams (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Acres of Clams (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Digging Razor Clams at Copalis" In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 159. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A dredge haul including live clams and empty shells. Credit: Fisheries.

Returning home with bags of clams on deck of a clam dredger. Credit: Fisheries.

Dead surf clams and other invertebrates after the spill. Sampling to determine mortality and other information about the animals killed during the spill lasted 4-5 months. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Seagulls feed on stranded lobsters and surf clams after the oil spill incident. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

One of the volunteer transfer vessels loaded with hard-shell clams waiting to be transferred to the quahog spawner sanctuaries. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A smaller vessel unloads clams onto the mother vessel that will eventually transfer the clams to the spawner sanctuaries. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Two volunteers empty clams from the mother vessel into the waters of the spawner sanctuaries outside Greenwich Bay and Sakonnet River, RI. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The lobster's large claw can crush crabs, clams and fingers. Homarus americanus. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Little neck clams. Credit: USDA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Asturian

amasueles. (various references)

Cebuano

tuway. (various references)

Chamorro

pahgang. (various references)

Danish

muslinger, hjertemusling-familien (cockles), aktinomykose (actinomycosis, lumpy jaw, wooden tongue). (various references)

Dutch

tweekleppige schelpdieren, kokkels (cockles), actinomycosis (actinomycosis, lumpy jaw, wooden tongue), actinomycose (actinomycosis, lumpy jaw, wooden tongue). (various references)

Faeroese

skeljadýr. (various references)

Finnish

sydänsimpukat-heimo (cockles), sydänsimpukat (cockles), simpukat. (various references)

French

coques, clams, actinomycose, \COZ. (various references)

Frisian

skulpen. (various references)

German

hemmt (clogs, inhibits, obstructs, trigs). (various references)

Greek 

μεθύστρες (cockles), ακτινομύκωση (actinomycosis, lumpy jaw, scab, wooden tongue), ακτινομυκητίαση (actinomycosis, lumpy jaw, wooden tongue), δίθυρα. (various references)

Italian

cuori (hearts), cardidi (cockles), bivalvi, attinomicosi (actinomycosis, lumpy jaw, wooden tongue), actinomicosi (actinomycosis, lumpy jaw, wooden tongue). (various references)

Macedonian

lignji. (various references)

Pig Latin

amsclay.(various references)

Portuguese

bivalves, berbigoes (cockles), berbigões (cockles), actinomicose (actinobacillosis, actinomycosis, lumpy jaw, wooden tongue). (various references)

Provencal

arcèli. (various references)

Samoan

faisua. (various references)

Spanish

cárdidos (cockles), berberechos (cockles), almejas (mussels), actinomicosis (actinomycosis, lumpy jaw, wooden tongue). (various references)

Swedish

musslor. (various references)

Bivalvia, Cardiidae. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "CLAMS": clamshell, clamshells. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CLAMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alcms, alm, Calam, calmess, celam, celoms, chlamys, chloasma, clads, clags, Clais, clame, clamr, clands, clars, clas, clasm, claus, clemo, cliamh, climsy, clums, collams, cullams. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: calms.

-1 letter: alms, calm, cams, clam, lacs, lams, macs, scam, slam.

-2 letters: als, cam, lac, lam, las, mac, mas, sac, sal.

-3 letters: al, am, as, la, ma.

+1 letter: camels, claims, clamps, macles, mescal.

+2 letters: almuces, becalms, calamus, calmest, camails, camlets, chasmal, chimlas, chlamys, clamors, copalms, cymbals, lactams, laicism, mackles, maculas, macules, malices, marcels, mescals, mezcals, miscall, mucosal, musical, plasmic, psalmic, schmalz, talcums.

+3 letters: acclaims, alembics, almanacs, armlocks, baculums, balsamic, cabalism, calamars, calciums, calmness, calomels, calumets, camelias, camisole, camphols, caramels, cembalos, ceramals, chiasmal, chiliasm, chloasma, chrismal, claimers, clambers, clammers, clamours, clampers, clansman, clansmen, classism, clematis, climates, climaxes, cosmical, custumal, decimals, declaims, disclaim, emplaces, exclaims, laconism, laicisms, leucomas, limacons, localism, lockrams, malaccas, manacles, masscult, medicals, melanics, meniscal, meticals, miracles, miscalls, misclaim, misclass, misplace, mochilas, muscadel, muscatel, muscular, musicale, musicals, mystical, oilcamps, reclaims, reclames, schmaltz, schmalzy, scleroma, scolioma, scramble, unclamps, vasculum, vocalism.