10-letter words containing a, c, m
- samothrace — a Greek island in the NE Aegean.
- san marcos — a city in S central Texas.
- sanctimony — pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc.
- sanmicheli — Michele [mee-ke-le] /miˈkɛ lɛ/ (Show IPA), 1484–1559, Italian architect and military engineer.
- saramaccan — an English-based creole spoken in the interior of Suriname.
- sarcolemma — the membranous sheath of a muscle fiber.
- sarcoplasm — the cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber.
- sarcosomal — relating to a sarcosome
- scale moss — any thalloid liverwort.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scampishly — in a scampish manner
- scaramouch — a stock character in commedia dell'arte and farce who is a cowardly braggart, easily beaten and frightened.
- scarcement — a footing or ledge formed by a setoff in a wall.
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- schematism — the particular form or disposition of a thing.
- schematist — a person who forms schemes; a schemer
- schematize — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- schismatic — Also, schismatical. of, relating to, or of the nature of schism; guilty of schism.
- schizogamy — reproduction characterized by division of the organism into sexual and asexual parts, as in certain polychaetes.
- schliemann — Heinrich [hahyn-rikh] /ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1822–90, German archaeologist: excavated ancient cities of Troy and Mycenae.
- schlimazel — an inept, bungling person who suffers from unremitting bad luck.
- schoolmaid — a schoolgirl
- schoolmarm — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
- schoolmate — a companion or associate at school.
- schumacher — Ernst Friedrich (ɛrnst ˈfriːdrɪç). 1911–77, British economist, born in Germany. He is best known for his book Small is Beautiful (1973)
- scintigram — a paper printout or photographic record indicating the intensity and distribution of radioactivity in tissues after administration of a radioactive tracer.
- scotswoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Scotland; Scot.
- scout camp — organized outdoor activity for boys
- scrambling — motocross, off-road biking
- scrimshank — to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk.
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- scrum half — a player who puts in the ball at scrums and tries to get it away to his three-quarter backs
- scuff mark — Scuff marks are marks made on a smooth surface when something is rubbed against it.
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- second man — a person who assists the driver in crewing a locomotive
- secularism — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- semantical — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semiotical — of or relating to signs.
- semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
- septicemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- shamefaced — modest or bashful.
- shoe cream — cream for polishing shoes
- sic passim — so throughout: used especially as a footnote to indicate that a word, phrase, or idea recurs throughout the book being cited.
- sicklemias — the usually asymptomatic hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits from only one parent the abnormal hemoglobin gene characteristic of sickle cell anemia.
- simoniacal — a person who practices simony.
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- simplicial — relating to simplexes