10-letter words containing a, m, p, c, o
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- honor camp — a prison work camp operating on an honor system.
- hyporchema — a lively choral ode sung in ancient Greece in honor of Apollo or Dionysus.
- hypoxaemic — Alternative form of hypoxemic.
- impactions — Plural form of impaction.
- importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- importancy — (obsolete) importance; significance.
- in company — When you are in company, you are with a person or group of people.
- incompared — incomparable; unmatched; unequalled
- jumbo pack — a very large pack. Used mainly in advertising and in the names of products
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- low-impact — Low-impact exercise does not put a lot of stress on your body.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macrocarpa — (NZ) The Monterey cypress.
- macrograph — a representation of an object that is of the same size as or larger than the object.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- macropores — Plural form of macropore.
- macroprism — a prism belonging to an orthorhombic crystal found between the macropinacoid and the unit prism
- macroscope — A wide-field imaging device.
- macrospore — megaspore.
- madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- marco polo — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), c1254–1324, Venetian traveler.
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- meatoscope — (medicine) A speculum for examining a natural passage, such as the urethra.
- mecopteran — mecopterous.
- megaphonic — Of, or pertaining to, a megaphone.
- megascopic — Visible to the naked eye.
- mesoscaphe — a mid-20th century vessel lowered into the sea to a moderate depth for the purpose of underwater exploration
- metaphoric — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- micrograph — an instrument for executing extremely minute writing or engraving.
- microphage — a small phagocytic cell in blood or lymph, especially a polymorphonuclear leukocyte.
- micropylar — Of or pertaining to micropyles.
- miscaption — to provide with an incorrect caption
- misocapnic — having a dislike or hate of tobacco smoke
- monocarpic — producing fruit only once and then dying.
- monophasic — having one phase.
- monospaced — Simple past tense and past participle of monospace.
- moonscapes — Plural form of moonscape.
- morphactin — any of various synthetic compounds, derived from fluorine and carboxylic acid, that regulate the growth and development of plants.
- mosaic map — a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
- motor camp — a camp for motorists, tents, and caravans
- muciparous — muciferous.
- mycoplasma — any of numerous parasitic microorganisms of the class Mollicutes, comprising the smallest self-reproducing prokaryotes, lacking a true cell wall and able to survive without oxygen: a common cause of pneumonia and urinary tract infections.
- myopically — Very closely; as if suffering from myopia.
- non-impact — the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
- off-campus — located or available outside a campus.
- ophthalmic — of or relating to the eye; ocular.
- opsomaniac — a person with an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food