10-letter words containing c, o, m, b
- crossbeams — Plural form of crossbeam.
- crumbcloth — a cloth placed under a dining table to protect the carpet from crumbs and other material
- cumbersome — Something that is cumbersome is large and heavy and therefore difficult to carry, wear, or handle.
- cumbrously — In a cumbrous manner.
- currycombs — Plural form of currycomb.
- customable — subject to customs
- embolismic — Relating to embolism or intercalation.
- embouchure — The way in which a player applies the mouth to the mouthpiece of a brass or wind instrument.
- embrocated — Simple past tense and past participle of embrocate.
- embrocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embrocate.
- embryo sac — the structure within a plant ovule that contains the egg cell: develops from the megaspore and contains the embryo plant and endosperm after fertilization
- endamoebic — relating to endamebae
- gobsmacked — utterly astounded; astonished.
- homophobic — unreasoning fear of or antipathy toward homosexuals and homosexuality.
- honeycombs — Plural form of honeycomb.
- imbroccata — a downward pass or thrust
- jacobinism — (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
- jumbo pack — a very large pack. Used mainly in advertising and in the names of products
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- locomobile — automotive; self-propelling.
- logic bomb — (programming, security) Code surreptitiously inserted into an application or operating system that causes it to perform some destructive or security-compromising activity whenever specified conditions are met. Compare back door.
- lumbricoid — resembling an earthworm.
- macrobiota — any living organisms in a given area large enough to be seen with the naked eye
- macrobiote — a person with a long life
- macroburst — (meteorology) A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
- matchboard — a board having a tongue formed on one edge and a groove of the same dimensions cut into the other, used with similar boards to compose floors, dados, etc.
- matchbooks — Plural form of matchbook.
- matchboxes — Plural form of matchbox.
- mesolimbic — (anatomy) Relating to the middle part of the limbic system.
- metabiotic — a mode of living in which one organism is dependent on another for preparation of an environment in which it can live.
- methiocarb — a crystalline compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 2 S, used as a nonsystemic insecticide and miticide.
- microbeams — Plural form of microbeam.
- microbiome — the totality of microorganisms and their collective genetic material present in or on the human body or in another environment: The wide diversity of species that make up the microbiome is hard to fathom.
- microbiota — the microorganisms, both flora and fauna, that inhabit a particular region, when considered collectively.
- microblade — bladelet.
- microbrews — Plural form of microbrew.
- microburst — an intense, localized downdraft of air that spreads on the ground, causing rapid changes in wind direction and speed; a localized downburst.
- microbuses — Plural form of microbus.
- microfiber — a very fine polyester fiber, weighing less than one denier per filament, used especially for clothing.
- microfibre — Alternative spelling of microfiber.
- microprobe — Chemistry, Spectroscopy. a device used to excite radiation by a material in order to determine chemical or elemental composition from the emission spectrum produced.
- microtubes — Plural form of microtube.
- misbecomes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misbecome.
- mobocratic — Of or pertaining to mobocracy.
- mocambique — Mozambique.
- mont blanc — Jean Joseph Charles Louis [zhahn zhaw-zef sharl lwee] /ʒɑ̃ ʒɔˈzɛf ʃarl lwi/ (Show IPA), 1811–82, French socialist and historian.
- morbifical — Alternative form of morbific.
- mossbacked — Very conservative or reactionary, with old-fashioned views.