10-letter words containing h, a, e, m
- chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
- chromagens — Plural form of chromagen.
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chromonema — a coiled chromatin thread within a single chromosome
- chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- cimeliarch — a room for keeping the valuables of a church.
- clam-shell — the shell of a clam.
- clamshells — Plural form of clamshell.
- clawhammer — denoting a style of plucking the strings of a banjo in which the hand forms a clawlike shape
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- coachmaker — A coachbuilder.
- comanchean — of or relating to the early part of the Cretaceous system and period
- comanchero — (in 19th-century New Mexico) a trader who traded with the Native American nomadic tribes such as the Comanche, Navajo, and Apache
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- crash team — a medical team with special equipment able to be mobilized quickly to treat cardiac arrest
- damselfish — any small tropical percoid fish of the family Pomacentridae, having a brightly coloured deep compressed body
- dead march — a piece of solemn funeral music played to accompany a procession, esp at military funerals
- death camp — A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
- death mask — A death mask is a model of someone's face, which is made from a mould that was taken of their face soon after they died.
- deathcamas — any of various plants (genus Zigadenus) of the lily family, with grasslike basal leaves and clusters of greenish or white flowers: often poisonous to sheep
- deathmatch — (in wrestling) a match in which many of the normal rules do not apply, typically leading to a more violent contest.
- decadrachm — a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to 10 drachmas.
- deemphasis — Alternative spelling of de-emphasis.
- dehumanise — to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
- dehumanize — If you say that something dehumanizes people, you mean it takes away from them good human qualities such as kindness, generosity, and independence.
- 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.
- demothball — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.
- dermatherm — an instrument for measuring skin temperature.
- dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
- detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diathermal — of or relating to diathermy
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy
- dichromate — any salt or ester of dichromic acid. Dichromate salts contain the ion Cr2O72–
- dimethoate — a highly toxic crystalline compound, C 5 H 12 NO 3 PS 2 , used as an insecticide.
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
- disencharm — To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant.
- dreamwhile — the duration of a dream
- dual-homed — (networking) A kind of connection to a FDDI network where a host is simultaneously connected to two separate devices in the same FDDI ring. One of the connections becomes active while the other one is automatically blocked. If the first connection fails, the backup link takes over with no perceptible delay. A dual-homed device can tolerate a fault in one of its "homes" whereas a dual-attached device can tolerate a fault in one of the rings.
- dummelhead — a stupid or slow-witted person
- dummy head — a model of the human head with a microphone in each ear intended to receive sound in binaural and surround sound reproduction and transmission
- earthmover — a vehicle, as a bulldozer, for pushing or carrying excavated earth from place to place.
- earthwoman — a female inhabitant or native of the planet Earth.
- earthwomen — Plural form of earthwoman.
- earthworms — Plural form of earthworm.
- empathetic — Showing empathy for others, and recognizing their feelings etc; empathic.
- empathised — Simple past tense and past participle of empathise.
- empathises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empathise.
- empathized — Simple past tense and past participle of empathize.