10-letter words containing c, a, m, r, n
- muckraking — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muscardine — any of several fungi which cause disease in silkworms
- muscarinic — of or relating to muscarine.
- musicianer — (slang) musician.
- narcissism — inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
- narcomania — Psychiatry. abnormal craving for a drug to deaden pain.
- necromancy — a method of divination through alleged communication with the dead; black art.
- nigromancy — black magic; demonic magic
- nomarchies — Plural form of nomarchy.
- 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.
- nuclearism — a political philosophy maintaining that nuclear weapons are the best means of assuring peace and of attaining political goals.
- oceanarium — a large saltwater aquarium for the display and observation of fish and other marine life.
- orchardman — A man who owns or tends an orchard.
- 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.
- pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
- panic room — a secure room with a separate telephone line within a house, to which a person can flee if someone breaks in
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
- permanence — the condition or quality of being permanent; perpetual or continued existence.
- permanency — permanence.
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- preachment — the act of preaching.
- pyromaniac — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- rabdomancy — Alt form rhabdomancy.
- racemation — a bunch, collection, or group
- rachmanism — extortion or exploitation by a landlord of tenants of dilapidated or slum property, esp when involving intimidation or use of racial fears to drive out sitting tenants whose rent is fixed at a low rate
- ranch mink — a semiaquatic mink, Mustela vision, raised commercially for its fur.
- recallment — a recall
- reclaimant — a person who makes appeals to reclaim.
- remittance — the sending of money, checks, etc., to a recipient at a distance.
- revanchism — an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
- rifampicin — a drug used in the treatment of tuberculosis, meningitis, and leprosy
- rockingham — Second Marquis of, Charles Watson-Wentworth.
- roman arch — a semicircular arch.
- roman pace — an ancient Roman unit of measurement, equal to 5 Roman feet or about 58 U.S. inches (147 cm).
- romancical — relating to or dealing with romance
- round clam — quahog.
- sacramento — a state in the W United States, on the Pacific coast. 158,693 sq. mi. (411,015 sq. km). Capital: Sacramento. Abbreviation: CA (for use with zip code), Cal., Calif.
- san marcos — a city in S central Texas.
- saramaccan — an English-based creole spoken in the interior of Suriname.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- scarcement — a footing or ledge formed by a setoff in a wall.
- scent-mark — to deposit a scent mark; mark.
- scintigram — a paper printout or photographic record indicating the intensity and distribution of radioactivity in tissues after administration of a radioactive tracer.
- scrambling — motocross, off-road biking
- scrimshank — to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk.
- scrubwoman — a woman hired to clean a place; charwoman.