10-letter words containing c, r, a, m, b
- chimborazo — an extinct volcano in central Ecuador, in the Andes: the highest peak in Ecuador. Height: 6267 m (20 561 ft)
- choriambus — choriamb.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- clambering — of or relating to plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils.
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- combat car — a small armoured car
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- comparable — Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance.
- comparably — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- cramp ball — a hard round blackish ascomycetous fungus, Daldinia concentrica, characteristically found on the bark of ash trees and formerly carried to ward off cramp. The specific name refers to the concentric rings revealed if the fungus is sliced
- crossbeams — Plural form of crossbeam.
- cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- descramble — to restore (a scrambled signal) to an intelligible form, esp automatically by the use of electronic devices
- 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
- embryulcia — the act of forcibly removing a fetus
- gum arabic — a water-soluble, gummy exudate obtained from the acacia tree, especially Acacia senegal, used as an emulsifier, an adhesive, in inks, and in pharmaceuticals.
- imbricated — Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
- imbricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of imbricate.
- imbroccata — a downward pass or thrust
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- lumberjack — a person who works at lumbering; logger.
- macebearer — an official, as of a city or legislative body, who carries a ceremonial mace before dignitaries.
- 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.
- main brace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- mainbocher — (Main Rousseau Bocher) 1891–1976, U.S. fashion designer.
- manuscribe — (archaic) To write by hand.
- 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.
- 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.
- microbiota — the microorganisms, both flora and fauna, that inhabit a particular region, when considered collectively.
- microblade — bladelet.
- mobocratic — Of or pertaining to mobocracy.
- morbifical — Alternative form of morbific.
- moucharaby — a projecting second-storey window or balcony enclosed with latticework
- pernambuco — a state in NE Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.
- prechamber — A prechamber in an engine is a small area, usually in the cylinder head, in which combustion is started before fuel enters into the main combustion chamber.
- procambium — the meristem from which vascular bundles are developed.
- rabdomancy — Alt form rhabdomancy.
- re-embrace — to embrace again
- rochambeau — Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur [zhahn ba-teest daw-na-syan duh vee-mœr] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dɔ naˈsyɛ̃ də viˈmœr/ (Show IPA), Count de, 1725–1807, French general: marshal of France 1791–1807; commander of the French army in the American Revolution.
- schaumburg — a city in NE Illinois.