10-letter words containing a, m, e
- cameralist — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- cameration — vaulting
- camerawork — The camerawork in a film is the way it has been filmed, especially if the style is interesting or unusual in some way.
- camerlengo — a cardinal who acts as the pope's financial secretary and the papal treasurer
- camisadoes — Plural form of camisado.
- 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 stove — a portable stove used for cooking or heating, especially outdoors.
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- campanella — Tommaso. 1568–1639, Italian philosopher and Dominican friar. During his imprisonment by the Spaniards (1599–1626) he wrote his celebrated utopian fantasy, La città del sole
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
- camper van — A camper van is a van which is equipped with beds and cooking equipment so that you can live, cook, and sleep in it.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- campobello — an island in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of SE Canada: part of New Brunswick province. Pop: 1195 (2001). Area: about 52 sq km (20 sq miles)
- camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
- campuswide — Throughout a campus.
- candlebeam — a medieval chandelier formed of crossed timbers.
- cankerworm — the larva of either of two geometrid moths, Paleacrita vernata or Alsophila pometaria, which feed on and destroy fruit and shade trees in North America
- cant frame — any of several frames bracketed aft of the transom of a ship and inclined slightly to the fore-and-aft direction.
- cantonment — A cantonment is a group of buildings or a camp where soldiers live.
- cape smoke — South African brandy
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- capsomeres — Plural form of capsomere.
- car bomber — someone who hides a bomb under or in a car
- caramelise — (cooking) To convert sugar into caramel.
- caramelize — If sugar caramelizes, it turns to caramel as a result of being heated.
- carbapenem — (organic compound) Any of a class of broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotics that are resistant to enzymatic hydrolysis.
- carchemish — an ancient city in Syria on the Euphrates, lying on major trade routes; site of a victory of the Babylonians over the Egyptians (605 bc)
- cardmember — a person authorized to use a particular credit card.
- carmagnole — a dance and song popular during the French Revolution
- carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- carmichael — Hoaglund Howard (ˈhəʊɡlənd), known as Hoagy. 1899–1981, US pianist, singer, and composer of such standards as "Star Dust" (1929)
- carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
- carpe diem — enjoy the pleasures of the moment, without concern for the future
- carpostome — the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
- carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
- cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
- cash terms — the terms of a business transaction that is conducted in ready money
- caste mark — a mark on the skin that shows which caste a Hindu belongs to, esp a dot painted on the forehead
- castmember — A member of a theatrical cast.
- cat's meow — Slang. someone or something wonderful or remarkable.
- catamenial — Of or relating to the menses or menstruation.
- catamnesis — a medical history following the onset of an illness.
- catchments — Plural form of catchment.