10-letter words containing a, c, d, e, m
- climatised — to acclimate to a new environment.
- climatized — to acclimate to a new environment.
- cofferdams — Plural form of cofferdam.
- cold cream — an emulsion of water and fat used cosmetically for softening and cleansing the skin
- cold frame — A cold frame is a wooden frame with a glass top in which you grow small plants to protect them from cold weather.
- coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
- collimated — Simple past tense and past participle of collimate.
- columnated — Architecture. a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces. a decorative pillar, most often composed of stone and typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft with a capital and usually a base.
- comandante — commandant.
- comedietta — a short comic stage or musical production
- comm badge — a small combined radio transmitter and receiver, carried around by one person, esp military personnel, in the form of a badge worn on the chest
- commandeer — If the armed forces commandeer a vehicle or building owned by someone else, they officially take charge of it so that they can use it.
- commanders — Plural form of commander.
- commandery — a manor under the charge of a commander of a religious military order of knights
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- commandoes — Plural form of commando.
- commutated — to reverse the direction of (a current or currents), as by a commutator.
- compendial — Related to a compendium that serves as a standard, such as the w British Pharmacopoeia, or the w US Pharmacopeia.
- complained — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- coromandel — calamander
- cream soda — a carbonated soft drink flavoured with vanilla
- culminated — Simple past tense and past participle of culminate.
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- daemonical — Of or relating to daemons; diabolical.
- damasceene — to decorate or engrave metal with wavy lines and patterns
- damascened — of or relating to the city of Damascus.
- damascenes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of damascene.
- damascenus — Johannes [joh-han-eez,, -is] /dʒoʊˈhæn iz,, -ɪs/ (Show IPA), John of Damascus, Saint.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- dance form — the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.
- dead march — a piece of solemn funeral music played to accompany a procession, esp at military funerals
- death camp — A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
- deathcamas — any of various plants (genus Zigadenus) of the lily family, with grasslike basal leaves and clusters of greenish or white flowers: often poisonous to sheep
- deathmatch — (in wrestling) a match in which many of the normal rules do not apply, typically leading to a more violent contest.
- decadrachm — a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to 10 drachmas.
- decagramme — ten grammes
- decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
- decameters — Plural form of decameter.
- decametric — relating to or calculated by a decametre or measure equivalent to ten metres
- decampment — The act of decamping.
- decanormal — (of a solution) containing ten equivalent weights of solute per liter of solution.
- decay time — the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.
- decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- decimalist — a person who is in favour of decimalism
- decimalize — to change (a system, number, etc) to the decimal system
- decimating — Present participle of decimate.
- decimation — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.