10-letter words containing c, m, g, a
- co-manager — a person who manages something jointly with one or more other people
- cognominal — Of or relating to a cognomen.
- combatting — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- come again — Some people say 'Come again?' when they want you to repeat what you have just said.
- come along — You tell someone to come along to encourage them in a friendly way to do something, especially to attend something.
- comm badge — a small combined radio transmitter and receiver, carried around by one person, esp military personnel, in the form of a badge worn on the chest
- commanding — If you are in a commanding position or situation, you are in a strong or powerful position or situation.
- compacting — Present participle of compact.
- companding — a process in which the dynamic range of a signal is reduced for recording purposes and then expanded to its original value for reproduction or playback.
- companying — Present participle of company.
- compassing — Present participle of compass.
- conga drum — a large tubular bass drum, used chiefly in Latin American and funk music and played with the hands
- cosmogonal — a theory or story of the origin and development of the universe, the solar system, or the earth-moon system.
- cro magnon — an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).
- cro-magnon — belonging to a prehistoric, Caucasoid type of human who lived on the European continent, distinguished by tallness and erect stature, and by the use of stone and bone implements, principally of Aurignacian culture
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- cumulating — to heap up; amass; accumulate.
- cunningham — Merce (mɜːs). 1919–2009 US dancer and choreographer. His experimental ballets include Suite for Five (1956) and Travelogue (1977)
- cystograms — Plural form of cystogram.
- decagramme — ten grammes
- decimating — Present participle of decimate.
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- dogmatical — relating to or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas or any strong set of principles concerning faith, morals, etc., as those laid down by a church; doctrinal: We hear dogmatic arguments from both sides of the political spectrum.
- egomaniacs — Plural form of egomaniac.
- emaciating — Present participle of emaciate.
- epagomenic — Intercalary.
- ergomaniac — one with an excessive desire to work or exercise
- escamotage — juggling; trickery
- exclaiming — Present participle of exclaim.
- folk magic — any attempt to practice charms, spells, etc., to control events or people.
- frog march — to force (a person) to march with the arms pinioned firmly behind the back.
- frog-march — If you are frog-marched somewhere, someone takes you there by force, holding you by the arms or another part of your body so that you have to walk along with them.
- galliambic — of or relating to a metre consisting of four lesser Ionics, used by Callimachus and Catullus and imitated by Tennyson in Boadicea
- game chips — round thin potato chips served with game
- gametocide — a substance that kills gametes or gametocytes.
- gametocyte — a cell that produces gametes.
- gamotropic — of or relating to gamotropism
- gemmaceous — of, relating to, or resembling gemmae.
- gentamicin — a highly toxic broad-spectrum antibiotic mixture of related aminoglycoside substances derived from the actinomycete bacterium Micromonospora purpurea, used in its sulfate form in the treatment of severe Gram-negative infections.
- geomatical — Relating to geomatics.
- geomedical — relating to geomedicine
- giacometti — Alberto [al-bair-toh;; Italian ahl-ber-taw] /ælˈbɛər toʊ;; Italian ɑlˈbɛr tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1901–66, Swiss sculptor and painter.
- giant clam — any of several huge clams of the family Tridacnidae, inhabiting the shallow waters of coral reefs in the tropical Indo-Pacific, as Tridacna gigas: some may weigh more than 500 pounds (225 kg).
- glumaceous — glumelike; chaffy.
- glutaminic — derived from glutamine
- gnomically — In a gnomic manner. (In a way apparently clear and simple, but eventually difficult to understand).
- gnomonical — Alternative form of gnomonic.