9-letter words containing c, n, a, m
- parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
- permeance — the act of permeating.
- placement — the act of placing.
- placename — the name given to or held by a geographical location, as a town, city, village, etc.
- pneumatic — of or relating to air, gases, or wind.
- policeman — a member of a police force or body.
- premenace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- ptomainic — causing or resulting from ptomaines
- punctatim — point for point.
- pyromancy — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- remanence — the magnetic flux that remains in a magnetic circuit after an applied magnetomotive force has been removed.
- rifamycin — an antibiotic which can be synthesized artificially or naturally and is used in the treatment of infections such as tuberculosis and leprosy
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- salamanca — a city in W Spain: university; Wellington's defeat of the French, 1812.
- scamander — ancient name of the river Menderes.
- schoolman — a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
- sciomancy — divination with the help of ghosts
- scotchman — Sometimes Offensive. Scotsman.
- scramming — to go away; get out (usually used as a command): I said I was busy, so scram.
- screaming — uttering screams.
- selectman — (in most New England states) one of a board of town officers chosen to manage certain public affairs.
- semantics — Linguistics. the study of meaning. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- semblance — outward aspect or appearance.
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- showmance — a romance between two stars that only lasts for the run of the show
- sickleman — a person reaping with a sickle
- slamdance — to hurl oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock concert
- smackdown — a severe rebuke or criticism: his amazing smackdown of the protesters.
- snail cam — a cam with spiral cross section used for progressive lifting of a lever as the cam revolves
- space man — space writer.
- spanaemic — relating to a lack of red corpuscles in blood
- sun cream — a chemical, usually in the form of a cream, applied to exposed skin to block out all or almost all of the ultraviolet rays of the sun
- switchman — a person who has charge of a switch on a railroad.
- synsacrum — a dorsal ridge of bone in the pelvic region of birds, formed by the fusion of certain thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae.
- taxonomic — the science or technique of classification.
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- theomancy — divination or prophecy by an oracle or by people directly inspired by a god
- unamerced — not amerced or punished
- uncharmed — marked by good fortune or privilege: a charmed life.
- unclaimed — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- unclamped — to fasten with or fix in a clamp.
- uncle sam — a personification of the government or people of the U.S.: represented as a tall, lean man with white chin whiskers, wearing a blue tailcoat, red-and-white-striped trousers, and a top hat with a band of stars.
- undecimal — related to the number 11
- undynamic — pertaining to or characterized by energy or effective action; vigorously active or forceful; energetic: the dynamic president of the firm.
- unmanacle — to release (a prisoner) from manacles
- unmatched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- unmusical — not musical; deficient in melody, harmony, rhythm, or tone.
- vaccinium — a member of a shrub genus including blueberries and cranberries
- vacuuming — a space entirely devoid of matter.