10-letter words containing c, a, m, b
- implacably — not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.
- inimicable — adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health.
- jacobinism — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- 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.
- lambdacism — excessive use of the sound l, its misarticulation, or its substitution for the sound r.
- lamp-black — a fine black pigment consisting of almost pure carbon collected as soot from the smoke of burning oil, gas, etc.
- lumberjack — a person who works at lumbering; logger.
- maccabaeus — Judas or Judah [joo-duh] /ˈdʒu də/ (Show IPA), ("the Hammer") died c. 160 b.c, Judean patriot, one of the Maccabees: military leader 166–160 (son of Mattathias).
- macebearer — an official, as of a city or legislative body, who carries a ceremonial mace before dignitaries.
- machinable — (of a material) capable of being cut or shaped with machine tools. Compare free-machining.
- macrobiota — any living organisms in a given area large enough to be seen with the naked eye
- macrobiote — a person with a long life
- macroburst — (meteorology) A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
- main brace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- manducable — chewable or edible
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- metabiotic — a mode of living in which one organism is dependent on another for preparation of an environment in which it can live.
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.
- microbeams — Plural form of microbeam.
- microbiota — the microorganisms, both flora and fauna, that inhabit a particular region, when considered collectively.
- microblade — bladelet.
- misbalance — To balance badly or wrongly.
- mobocratic — Of or pertaining to mobocracy.
- mocambique — Mozambique.
- mont blanc — Jean Joseph Charles Louis [zhahn zhaw-zef sharl lwee] /ʒɑ̃ ʒɔˈzɛf ʃarl lwi/ (Show IPA), 1811–82, French socialist and historian.
- morbifical — Alternative form of morbific.
- mossbacked — Very conservative or reactionary, with old-fashioned views.
- moucharaby — a projecting second-storey window or balcony enclosed with latticework
- mozambican — a native or inhabitant of the territory or city of Mozambique.
- muck about — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- myoblastic — of or relating to a myoblast or myoblasts
- non-combat — not including, entailing, or requiring combat: noncombat duty.
- palm beach — a town in SE Florida: seaside winter resort.
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- prechamber — A prechamber in an engine is a small area, usually in the cylinder head, in which combustion is started before fuel enters into the main combustion chamber.
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- rabdomancy — Alt form rhabdomancy.
- re-embrace — to embrace again
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.
- scrambling — motocross, off-road biking
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.
- scum-board — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- strabismic — a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.