10-letter words containing a, c, e, r, m
- beach-berm — Also, berme. Fortification. a horizontal surface between the exterior slope of a rampart and the moat.
- beam brick — a face brick for bonding to a concrete lintel poured in place, having a section like a right triangle.
- beam reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- bedchamber — A bedchamber is a bedroom.
- bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
- bergamasca — a fast dance similar to the tarantella.
- bichromate — dichromate
- bomb scare — an alarm arising from the fear that a bomb may have been left in a place
- bon marche — a bargain.
- box camera — a simple box-shaped camera having an elementary lens, shutter, and viewfinder
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- breadcrumb — Breadcrumbs are tiny pieces of dry bread. They are used in cooking.
- break camp — to pack up equipment and leave a camp
- brickmaker — a person who makes bricks
- bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
- cablegrams — Plural form of cablegram.
- cafe creme — coffee with cream.
- cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
- calamander — the hard black-and-brown striped wood of several trees of the genus Diospyros, esp D. quaesita of India and Sri Lanka, used in making furniture: family Ebenaceae
- calceiform — shaped like a shoe or slipper
- calciminer — A person who calcimines.
- camberwell — a former residential borough of Greater London, England, now part of Southwark.
- camcorders — Plural form of camcorder.
- camel hair — the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
- camel-hair — A camel-hair coat is made of a kind of soft, thick woollen cloth, usually creamy-brown in colour.
- camelopard — giraffe
- camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
- cameo ware — jasper ware with applied decoration of classical motifs, resembling a cameo
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- cameralism — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- cameralist — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- cameration — vaulting
- camerawork — The camerawork in a film is the way it has been filmed, especially if the style is interesting or unusual in some way.
- camerlengo — a cardinal who acts as the pope's financial secretary and the papal treasurer
- camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- camper van — A camper van is a van which is equipped with beds and cooking equipment so that you can live, cook, and sleep in it.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- cankerworm — the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata or Alsophila pometaria, which feed on and destroy fruit and shade trees in North America
- cant frame — any of several frames bracketed aft of the transom of a ship and inclined slightly to the fore-and-aft direction.
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- capsomeres — Plural form of capsomere.
- car bomber — someone who hides a bomb under or in a car
- caramelise — (cooking) To convert sugar into caramel.
- caramelize — If sugar caramelizes, it turns to caramel as a result of being heated.
- carbapenem — (organic compound) Any of a class of broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotics that are resistant to enzymatic hydrolysis.