10-letter words containing a, d, m, i
- arcimboldo — Giuseppe. 1527–93, Italian painter, best remembered for painting grotesque figures composed of fruit, vegetables, and meat
- armadillos — Plural form of armadillo.
- aromatized — Simple past tense and past participle of aromatize.
- aside from — Aside from means the same as apart from. This form is more usual in American English.
- audiograms — Plural form of audiogram.
- audiometer — an instrument for testing the intensity and frequency range of sound that is capable of detection by the human ear
- audiometry — the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.
- auditorium — An auditorium is the part of a theatre or concert hall where the audience sits.
- autopodium — (anatomy) The distal part of a limb; a hand or foot.
- barmecidal — giving only the illusion of plenty; illusory: a Barmecidal banquet.
- barramundi — any of several large edible Australian fishes esp the percoid species Lates calcarifer (family Centropomidae) of NE coastal waters or the freshwater species Scleropages leichardti (family Osteoglossidae) of Queensland
- bastardism — the condition of being illegitimate
- bimodality — the state of being bimodal
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
- biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
- bombardier — the member of a bomber aircrew responsible for aiming and releasing the bombs
- bombarding — to attack or batter with artillery fire.
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).
- bridesmaid — A bridesmaid is a woman or a girl who helps and accompanies a bride on her wedding day.
- caddisworm — the aquatic larva of a caddis fly, which constructs a protective case around itself made of silk, sand, stones, etc
- calamondin — a small citrus tree, Citrus mitis, of the Philippines
- calcimined — Simple past tense and past participle of calcimine.
- calmodulin — a protein found in most living cells; it regulates many enzymic processes that are dependent on calcium
- camisadoes — Plural form of camisado.
- camp david — the US president's retreat in the Appalachian Mountains, Maryland: scene of the Camp David Agreement (Sept, 1978) between Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel, mediated by Jimmy Carter, which outlined a framework for establishing peace in the Middle East. This agreement was the basis of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt signed in Washington (March, 1979)
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- 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.
- cardiogram — electrocardiogram
- cardiotomy — (surgery) The procedure of making an incision in the heart.
- carpe diem — enjoy the pleasures of the moment, without concern for the future
- catostomid — (zoology) Any member of the Catostomidae.
- championed — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- childermas — Holy Innocents Day, Dec 28
- chilomonad — any of the colorless protozoalike algae of the genus Chilomonas (phylum Cryptophyta), chiefly saprozoic flagellates found in fresh waters that have become stagnant: popular in laboratory studies.
- chlamydiae — the sexually transmitted diseases that are due to the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis
- chlamydial — of or relating to infections caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia
- chlamydias — Plural form of chlamydia.
- chromatids — Plural form of chromatid.
- chromatoid — Resembling chromatin.
- clamdigger — One who digs for clams.
- climatised — to acclimate to a new environment.
- climatized — to acclimate to a new environment.
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.
- codominant — (of genes) having both alleles expressed equally in the phenotype of the organism
- collimated — Simple past tense and past participle of collimate.
- comatulids — Plural form of comatulid.