9-letter words containing a, m, e
- campanile — (esp in Italy) a bell tower, not usually attached to another building
- campeador — a champion
- campering — a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- campervan — (Australia, NZ, British) A vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation.
- campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
- campfires — Plural form of campfire.
- campiness — the quality of being campy
- campodean — a campodeid.
- campodeid — any of various primitive and wingless insects of the genus Campodea
- camporees — Plural form of camporee.
- campsites — Plural form of campsite.
- candlemas — Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- cape-nome — a seaport in W Alaska.
- capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- car crime — crime in which cars are stolen or in which things are stolen from cars
- carambole — to make a carom
- carbamate — a salt or ester of carbamic acid. The salts contain the monovalent ion NH2COO–, and the esters contain the group NH2COO–
- carbamide — urea.
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- card game — A card game is a game that is played using a set of playing cards.
- cardamine — bittercress
- care home — A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
- careerism — devotion to a successful career, often at the expense of one's personal life, ethics, etc.
- carmakers — Plural form of carmaker.
- carmelite — a member of an order of mendicant friars founded about 1154; White Friar
- carmelize — (US) Alternative form of caramelize.
- carpellum — (botany) A carpel.
- cartelism — the practice of forming cartels
- casemaker — a machine that produces the stiff covers for hardback books
- casemates — Plural form of casemate.
- casements — Plural form of casement.
- caseworms — Plural form of caseworm.
- cassimere — a woollen suiting cloth of plain or twill weave
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- catamenia — menstrual discharge; menstruation
- catamites — Plural form of catamite.
- catchment — In geography, catchment is the process of collecting water, in particular the process of water flowing from the ground and collecting in a river. Catchment is also the water that is collected in this way.
- catechism — In a Catholic, Episcopal, or Orthodox Church, the catechism is a series of questions and answers about religious beliefs, which has to be learned by people before they can become full members of that Church.
- cattleman — A cattleman is a man who looks after or owns cattle, especially in North America or Australia.
- cattlemen — Plural form of cattleman.
- cauchemar — a nightmare
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- cavaedium — atrium (def 1a).
- cavewoman — A prehistoric woman who lived in caves.
- cavewomen — Plural form of cavewoman.
- cellarman — a person in charge of a cellar where wine or beer is stored
- cellarmen — Plural form of cellarman.