10-letter words containing e, y, a, m
- axonometry — the branch of crystallography concerned with measurement of the axes of crystals
- babyboomer — Alternative spelling of baby boomer.
- babymakers — Plural form of babymaker.
- ballymoney — a district in N Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim. Pop: 27 809 (2003 est). Area: 417 sq km (161 sq miles)
- bank money — checks, drafts, and bank credits other than currency that are the equivalent of money.
- bathymeter — An instrument used to measure the depth of water in oceans, seas, or lakes.
- bathymetry — measurement of the depth of an ocean or other large body of water
- belly-slam — belly-flop.
- betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
- body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
- bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- cad system — A CAD system is a computer system for designing parts or products before they are manufactured.
- caecostomy — (surgery) An operation involving bringing the caecum through the abdominal wall, most often by a tube, and opening it for drainage or decompression, usually to treat an obstruction of the colon.
- call money — money loaned by banks and recallable on demand
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
- cavalrymen — a soldier in the cavalry.
- chemically — a substance produced by or used in a chemical process.
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- chlamydate — (of some molluscs) possessing a mantle
- chlamydiae — the sexually transmitted diseases that are due to the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis
- chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
- cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
- co-payment — payment required of an insured person for that portion of medical expenses not paid by the insurance company; specif., a fixed fee required for each prescription, visit to a doctor, etc.
- coenzyme a — a constituent of biological cells that functions as the agent of acylation in metabolic reactions
- commandery — a manor under the charge of a commander of a religious military order of knights
- commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
- copayments — Plural form of copayment.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyclamates — Plural form of cyclamate.
- cyma recta — a cyma whose concave part projects beyond the convex part.
- cysteamine — a drug used to treat cystine excretion or radiation sickness
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- damnyankee — (in the southern U.S.) a person native to the northern states of the U.S., especially one who is disliked or regarded with suspicion.
- 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.
- daydreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of daydream.
- daydreamer — a reverie indulged in while awake.
- decay time — the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.
- defamatory — Speech or writing that is defamatory is likely to damage someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- defrayment — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- disamenity — The unpleasant quality or character of something.
- doomsayers — Plural form of doomsayer.