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10-letter words containing c, h, m

  • attachment — If you have an attachment to someone or something, you are fond of them or loyal to them.
  • autochrome — a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.
  • auxochrome — a group of atoms that can be attached to a chromogen to convert it into a dye
  • avouchment — The act of avouching.
  • baphometic — relating to the worship of the idol Baphomet, whom the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping during the Crusades
  • batch mode — computer processing in which commands are input from a batch file, not interactively
  • batchmates — Plural form of batchmate.
  • beach berm — berm (def 3).
  • beach plum — a rosaceous shrub, Prunus maritima, of coastal regions of E North America
  • beach-berm — Also, berme. Fortification. a horizontal surface between the exterior slope of a rampart and the moat.
  • beam reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
  • bedchamber — A bedchamber is a bedroom.
  • beech mast — the edible nuts of the beech, especially when lying on the ground.
  • bench mark — a surveyor's mark made on a permanent landmark of known position and altitude: it is used as a reference point in determining other altitudes
  • bench-made — (of articles made of leather, wood, etc.) individually produced and finished, as on a carpenter's bench; custom-made.
  • besmirched — to soil; tarnish; discolor.
  • bichromate — dichromate
  • biochemist — A biochemist is a scientist or student who studies biochemistry.
  • biomorphic — having the form of a living organism
  • blacksmith — A blacksmith is a person whose job is making things by hand out of metal that has been heated to a high temperature.
  • bomb ketch — Nautical. a ketch-rigged vessel of the 17th and 18th centuries, carrying heavy mortars for firing bombs.
  • bon marche — a bargain.
  • book match — a match in or from a matchbook.
  • brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
  • buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
  • buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
  • cache miss — (storage)   A request to read from memory which cannot be satisfied from the cache, for which the main memory has to be consulted. Opposite: cache hit.
  • callathump — a shivaree.
  • callithump — a noisy band or parade
  • camel hair — the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
  • camel-hair — A camel-hair coat is made of a kind of soft, thick woollen cloth, usually creamy-brown in colour.
  • camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
  • camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
  • caml light — A small portable implementation of a version of CAML by Xavier Leroy <[email protected]> and Damien Doligez of INRIA. Caml Light uses a bytecode interpreter written in C. It adds a Modula-2-like module system, separate compilation, lazy streams for parsing and printing, graphics primitives and an interface with C. Version 0.6 runs on Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Atari ST and Amiga. It includes an interpreter, compiler, Emacs mode, libraries, scanner generator, parser generator, run-time support and an interactive development environment. The latest version, as of April 2003, is 0.75 and runs on Unix, Macintosh and Windows. The development of Caml Light has been stopped; current development is on Objective Caml. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
  • camp chair — a lightweight folding chair
  • camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
  • campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
  • camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
  • carchemish — an ancient city in Syria on the Euphrates, lying on major trade routes; site of a victory of the Babylonians over the Egyptians (605 bc)
  • carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
  • carmichael — Hoaglund Howard (ˈhəʊɡlənd), known as Hoagy. 1899–1981, US pianist, singer, and composer of such standards as "Star Dust" (1929)
  • carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
  • cash limit — a limit imposed as a method of curtailing overall expenditure without specifying the precise means of budgetary control
  • cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
  • cash terms — the terms of a business transaction that is conducted in ready money
  • catchments — Plural form of catchment.
  • catechisms — Plural form of catechism.
  • catechumen — a person, esp in the early Church, undergoing instruction prior to baptism
  • cathemeral — Relating to organisms that have sporadic and random intervals during the day or night in which food is acquired.
  • chain mail — Chain mail is a kind of armour made from small metal rings joined together so that they look like cloth.
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