10-letter words containing a, c, u, m
- 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.
- cacuminous — (of a tree) having a pointed or a pyramidal top
- cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- callathump — a shivaree.
- callithump — a noisy band or parade
- calmodulin — a protein found in most living cells; it regulates many enzymic processes that are dependent on calcium
- calumniate — to slander
- calumnious — of or using calumny
- camarasaur — a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur of the genus Camarasaurus and closely related genera, having a small head, long neck, and short forelimbs, and reaching a length of 40 feet (12.2 meters); until 1981 the type specimen of Brontosaurus excelcus was wrongly reconstructed with a Camarasaurus skull.
- camouflage — Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
- camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
- camp it up — If a performer camps it up, they deliberately perform in an exaggerated and often amusing way.
- campanular — shaped like a bell
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- campuswide — Throughout a campus.
- candaulism — A practice or in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their pleasure.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
- cassumunar — an aromatic, bitter root similar to ginger
- catacumbal — of or resembling catacombs
- catamounts — Plural form of catamount.
- catawampus — askew; awry
- catechumen — a person, esp in the early Church, undergoing instruction prior to baptism
- chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.
- chalumeaux — Plural form of chalumeau.
- charmonium — an elementary particle that contains an antiquark and a charm quark
- chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
- chikamatsu — Monzaemon [mawn-zah-e-mawn] /ˈmɔn zɑ ɛˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- cimicifuga — Any member of the genus Cimicifuga of flowering plants: bugbane or cohosh.
- cinerarium — a place for keeping the ashes of the dead after cremation
- circumoral — Around or encircling the mouth.
- clamouring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourous — Archaic spelling of clamorous.
- clemenceau — Georges Eugène Benjamin (ʒɔrʒ œʒɛn bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃). 1841–1929, French statesman; prime minister of France (1906–09; 1917–20); negotiated the Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.
- cockalorum — a self-important little man
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- columellae — Plural form of columella.
- columellar — (biology, anatomy) Of or pertaining to a columella.
- 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.
- comatulids — Plural form of comatulid.
- come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
- comeupance — Alternative form of comeuppance.
- commeasure — to coincide with in degree, extent, quality, etc
- communally — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.