10-letter words containing a, c, m
- kodachrome — (lowercase) a positive color transparency.
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- lacedaemon — Sparta.
- lacemakers — Plural form of lacemaker.
- lacemaking — the art, act, or process of making lace.
- lachrymals — Plural form of lachrymal.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- laconicism — laconic brevity.
- lacrimator — a chemical substance that causes the shedding of tears, as tear gas.
- lactometer — an instrument for determining the specific gravity of milk.
- lamarckian — of or relating to Jean de Lamarck or his theory of organic evolution.
- lamarckism — the Lamarckian theory that characteristics acquired by habit, use, or disuse may be passed on to future generations through inheritance.
- lambdacism — excessive use of the sound l, its misarticulation, or its substitution for the sound r.
- lamp-black — a fine black pigment consisting of almost pure carbon collected as soot from the smoke of burning oil, gas, etc.
- larithmics — the study of quantitative relations in population aggregates.
- latecomers — Plural form of latecomer.
- lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
- lazy sml2c — A lazy version sml2c. Portable, written in SML. Language extensions include first-class continuations, asynchronous signal handling. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://dravido.soar.cs.cmu.edu/usr/nemo/sml2c.
- legitimacy — the state or quality of being legitimate.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- leuchaemia — leukaemia
- leucoderma — vitiligo.
- leucomaine — any of a group of toxic amines produced during animal metabolism
- like magic — very quickly
- limacology — the study of slugs
- lithomancy — Divination with the use of precious or semi-precious stones, gemstones, or normal stones by either interpreting the light they reflect (crystallomancy), or how they fall (sortilege).
- local time — the time based on the meridian through a specific place, as a city, in contrast to that of the time zone within which the place is located; the time in a specific place as compared to that of another place to the east or west.
- loch morar — a lake in W Scotland, in the SW Highlands: the deepest in Scotland. Length: 18 km (11 miles). Depth: 296 m (987 ft)
- lockmaster — one in charge of a canal lock
- loculament — (botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
- long march — the 6000-mile (9654-km) retreat of the Chinese Communist Party and Red Army from southeastern China (Jiangxi province) to the northwest (Yanan in Shaanxi province) in 1934–35, during which Mao Zedong became leader of the Communist party.
- love match — a marriage entered into for love alone.
- low-impact — Low-impact exercise does not put a lot of stress on your body.
- lumachella — Alternative form of lumachel.
- lumberjack — a person who works at lumbering; logger.
- lunch meat — Lunch meat is meat that you eat in a sandwich or salad, and that is usually cold and either sliced or formed into rolls.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- lysimachus — 361?–281 b.c, Macedonian general: king of Thrace 306–281.
- maastricht — a city in the SE Netherlands, on the Maas River.
- macadamias — Plural form of macadamia.
- macadamise — to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
- macadamize — to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
- macanalyst — An analysis CASE tool for the Macintosh from Excel Software, Inc.
- macaronics — Plural form of macaronic.
- maccabaeus — Judas or Judah [joo-duh] /ˈdʒu də/ (Show IPA), ("the Hammer") died c. 160 b.c, Judean patriot, one of the Maccabees: military leader 166–160 (son of Mattathias).
- macchiatos — Plural form of macchiato.
- macdiarmid — Hugh (Christopher Murray Grieve) 1892–1978, Scottish poet.
- macdonough — Thomas, 1783–1825, U.S. naval officer: defeated British on Lake Champlain 1814.
- macebearer — an official, as of a city or legislative body, who carries a ceremonial mace before dignitaries.
- macedonian — a native or inhabitant of Macedonia.