10-letter words containing c, a, m, i, o
- myopically — Very closely; as if suffering from myopia.
- mystagogic — someone who instructs others before initiation into religious mysteries or before participation in the sacraments.
- narcomania — Psychiatry. abnormal craving for a drug to deaden pain.
- nematocide — a substance or preparation used for killing nematodes parasitic to plants.
- neofascism — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- nigromancy — black magic; demonic magic
- nomarchies — Plural form of nomarchy.
- non-impact — the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
- nondynamic — pertaining to or characterized by energy or effective action; vigorously active or forceful; energetic: the dynamic president of the firm.
- nonmagical — Not magical.
- nonmedical — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- nonmusical — not belonging to or relating to music
- nonnomadic — Not nomadic.
- normalcies — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
- nosocomial — (of infections) contracted as a result of being hospitalized; hospital-acquired.
- nux vomica — the seed of the orangelike fruit of an East Indian tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, of the logania family, containing strychnine, used in medicine.
- oceanarium — a large saltwater aquarium for the display and observation of fish and other marine life.
- oniomaniac — an uncontrollable desire to buy things.
- onomastics — the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.
- ophthalmic — of or relating to the eye; ocular.
- opsomaniac — a person with an extreme enthusiasm for a particular food
- organicism — Philosophy. the view that some systems resemble organisms in having parts that function in relation to the whole to which they belong. Compare holism (def 1).
- organismic — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- orichalcum — a brass rich in zinc, prepared by the ancients.
- osmic acid — a crystalline or amorphous, colorless, poisonous compound, OsO 4 , soluble in water, alcohol, and ether: used for microscopic staining, in photography, and as a catalyst in organic synthesis.
- oxycalcium — pertaining to or produced by oxygen and calcium.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- pancosmism — the philosophical doctrine that the material universe is all that exists
- pandemonic — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- panic room — a secure room with a separate telephone line within a house, to which a person can flee if someone breaks in
- pantomimic — the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
- paroxysmic — any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion: paroxysms of rage.
- patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
- pentatomic — having five atoms in the molecule
- phocomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- phonematic — phonemic.
- pismo clam — a large edible clam, Tivela stultorum, of sandy shores of California and Mexico.
- pitchwoman — a female pitchman
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- polyatomic — pertaining to a molecule containing more than two atoms.
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- postatomic — existing since or subsequent to the explosion of the first atomic bomb or the invention of atomic weapons: the political tensions of the postatomic world.
- postimpact — occurring after an impact
- pre-atomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- prosaicism — prosaic character or style.
- pyromaniac — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.