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10-letter words containing a, c, r, u, m

  • cream puff — a shell of light pastry with a custard or cream filling
  • creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
  • cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
  • cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
  • curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
  • curtmantle — ("Henry the Saint") 973–1024, king of Germany 1002–24 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1014–24.
  • custom car — a car that is built to the buyer's own specifications
  • dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
  • decamerous — having ten sections or partitions
  • dicoumarin — any compound formed with two bonded coumarin molecules
  • dicoumarol — a substance obtained naturally from sweet clover or produced synthetically as a drug, used as an anticoagulant
  • docudramas — Plural form of docudrama.
  • dracontium — (pharmacy, obsolete) The roots and rhizomes of skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus.
  • dyrrachium — a port in W Albania, on the Adriatic. Pop: 86 900 (1991 est)
  • embryulcia — the act of forcibly removing a fetus
  • epicardium — A serous membrane that forms the innermost layer of the pericardium and the outer surface of the heart.
  • epicranium — (anatomy) The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.
  • euharmonic — producing perfect concord or harmony
  • falciparum — The parasitic protozoan Plasmodium falciparum that causes falciparum malaria.
  • full-cream — denoting or made with whole unskimmed milk
  • graecismus — (rhetoric, historical) Use of Greek words and examples.
  • gum arabic — a water-soluble, gummy exudate obtained from the acacia tree, especially Acacia senegal, used as an emulsifier, an adhesive, in inks, and in pharmaceuticals.
  • gun camera — an aircraft-mounted motion-picture camera recording the firing of all weapons on the gun-target line of the pilot.
  • homuncular — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
  • human race — humanity, humans as a species
  • innumeracy — unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods; unable to use mathematics; not numerate.
  • lawrencium — a synthetic, radioactive, metallic element. Symbol: Lr; atomic number: 103.
  • leucoderma — vitiligo.
  • lumberjack — a person who works at lumbering; logger.
  • macroburst — (meteorology) A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
  • macrofauna — any animals visible to the naked eye
  • maculature — (dated) Blotting paper.
  • mail truck — a large vehicle that is used to transport letters, packages, etc, by road
  • majuscular — (of letters) uppercase, capitalized.
  • manchurian — a historic region in NE China: ancestral home of the Manchu. About 413,000 sq. mi. (1,070,000 sq. km).
  • manicuring — Present participle of manicure.
  • manicurist — a person who gives manicures.
  • manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
  • manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
  • maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
  • marlaceous — Resembling marl.
  • matricular — relating to a matricula, or having the nature of a matricula
  • maurolycus — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 70 miles (110 km) in diameter.
  • meerschaum — a mineral, hydrous magnesium silicate, H 4 Mg 2 Si 3 O 1 0 , occurring in white, claylike masses, used for ornamental carvings, for pipe bowls, etc.; sepiolite.
  • megachurch — an independent church with a very large membership in regular attendance, focusing on an evangelical or conservative Christian theology and offering a variety of educational and social activities.
  • mercurials — Plural form of mercurial.
  • metacarpus — the part of a hand or forelimb, especially of its bony structure, included between the wrist, or carpus, and the fingers, or phalanges.
  • microfauna — Biology. microscopic animals.
  • microgauss — (physics) A unit of magnetic field strength equal to one millionth of a gauss.
  • microquake — Microearthquake.
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