10-letter words containing e, m, a, r
- cold frame — A cold frame is a wooden frame with a glass top in which you grow small plants to protect them from cold weather.
- coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
- columellar — (biology, anatomy) Of or pertaining to a columella.
- comanchero — (in 19th-century New Mexico) a trader who traded with the Native American nomadic tribes such as the Comanche, Navajo, and Apache
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- commandeer — If the armed forces commandeer a vehicle or building owned by someone else, they officially take charge of it so that they can use it.
- commanders — Plural form of commander.
- commandery — a manor under the charge of a commander of a religious military order of knights
- commeasure — to coincide with in degree, extent, quality, etc
- commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
- commercial — Commercial means involving or relating to the buying and selling of goods.
- common era — Christian Era
- compacture — an act of joining or bringing into proximity
- comparable — Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance.
- compearant — a person who appears in court
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
- coromandel — calamander
- coterminal — having the same border or covering the same area.
- counterman — a man who works on a lunch counter or behind the counter of a cafe
- coursemate — One who is taking the same academic course.
- crash team — a medical team with special equipment able to be mobilized quickly to treat cardiac arrest
- cream cake — a cake containing a filling of cream
- cream pail — an open bowl of silver having a ladle or spoon for serving cream.
- cream puff — a shell of light pastry with a custard or cream filling
- cream soda — a carbonated soft drink flavoured with vanilla
- creameries — Plural form of creamery.
- creaminess — containing cream.
- creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- crematoria — a crematory.
- crime wave — When more crimes than usual are committed in a particular place, you can refer to this as a crime wave.
- 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
- curtmantle — ("Henry the Saint") 973–1024, king of Germany 1002–24 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1014–24.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyma recta — a cyma whose concave part projects beyond the convex part.
- d'alembert — Jean Le Rond (ʒɑ̃ lə rɔ̃). 1717–83, French mathematician, physicist, and rationalist philosopher, noted for his contribution to Newtonian physics in Traité de dynamique (1743) and for his collaboration with Diderot in editing the Encyclopédie
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- dance form — the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.
- danger man — a person, esp a member of a sports team, who is likely to inflict damage on opponents
- dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.
- data frame — activation record
- daydreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of daydream.
- daydreamer — a reverie indulged in while awake.
- de la mare — Walter (John). 1873–1956, English poet and novelist, noted esp for his evocative verse for children. His works include the volumes of poetry The Listeners and Other Poems (1912) and Peacock Pie (1913) and the novel Memoirs of a Midget (1921)
- dead march — a piece of solemn funeral music played to accompany a procession, esp at military funerals