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10-letter words containing h, a, m, i

  • brahminism — Brahmanism
  • buchmanism — the principles or the international movement of Moral Re-Armament or of the Oxford Group, or belief in or adherence to them.
  • buckingham — a town in S central England, in Buckinghamshire; university (1975). Pop: 12 512 (2001)
  • cache miss — (storage)   A request to read from memory which cannot be satisfied from the cache, for which the main memory has to be consulted. Opposite: cache hit.
  • callithump — a noisy band or parade
  • camel hair — the hair of the camel, used especially for cloth, painters' brushes, and Oriental rugs.
  • camel-hair — A camel-hair coat is made of a kind of soft, thick woollen cloth, usually creamy-brown in colour.
  • camelshair — (attributive) The hair of a camel, used for paintbrushes etc.
  • caml light — A small portable implementation of a version of CAML by Xavier Leroy <[email protected]> and Damien Doligez of INRIA. Caml Light uses a bytecode interpreter written in C. It adds a Modula-2-like module system, separate compilation, lazy streams for parsing and printing, graphics primitives and an interface with C. Version 0.6 runs on Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Atari ST and Amiga. It includes an interpreter, compiler, Emacs mode, libraries, scanner generator, parser generator, run-time support and an interactive development environment. The latest version, as of April 2003, is 0.75 and runs on Unix, Macintosh and Windows. The development of Caml Light has been stopped; current development is on Objective Caml. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
  • camp chair — a lightweight folding chair
  • camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
  • campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
  • carchemish — an ancient city in Syria on the Euphrates, lying on major trade routes; site of a victory of the Babylonians over the Egyptians (605 bc)
  • carmichael — Hoaglund Howard (ˈhəʊɡlənd), known as Hoagy. 1899–1981, US pianist, singer, and composer of such standards as "Star Dust" (1929)
  • carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
  • cash limit — a limit imposed as a method of curtailing overall expenditure without specifying the precise means of budgetary control
  • catechisms — Plural form of catechism.
  • chain mail — Chain mail is a kind of armour made from small metal rings joined together so that they look like cloth.
  • chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.
  • chairwoman — The chairwoman of a meeting, committee, or organization is the woman in charge of it.
  • chairwomen — Plural form of chairwoman.
  • chambering — a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom: She retired to her chamber.
  • chamberlin — ˈThomas Chrowder (ˈkraʊdər ) ; krouˈdər) 1843-1928; U.S. geologist
  • chambertin — a dry red burgundy wine produced in Gevrey-Chambertin in E France
  • chamfering — Present participle of chamfer.
  • chamomiles — Plural form of chamomile.
  • champaigne — Philippe de (filip də). 1602–74, French painter, born in Brussels: noted particularly for his portraits and historical and religious scenes
  • champignon — any of various agaricaceous edible mushrooms, esp Marasmius oreades and the meadow mushroom
  • championed — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
  • charismata — Theology. a divinely conferred gift or power.
  • charmingly — In a charming manner.
  • charmonium — an elementary particle that contains an antiquark and a charm quark
  • chauvinism — Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's.
  • chemiatric — healing by the use of chemicals
  • chemically — a substance produced by or used in a chemical process.
  • chemotaxis — the movement of a microorganism or cell in response to a chemical stimulus
  • chiang mai — city in NW Thailand, on a headstream of the Chao Phraya: pop. 162,000
  • chiasmatic — relating to the intersection of the optic nerve fibres at the bottom of the brain
  • chicanismo — pride in one's heritage as a Mexican-American.
  • chief mate — first mate.
  • chikamatsu — Monzaemon [mawn-zah-e-mawn] /ˈmɔn zɑ ɛˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1724, Japanese playwright.
  • childermas — Holy Innocents Day, Dec 28
  • chilomonad — any of the colorless protozoalike algae of the genus Chilomonas (phylum Cryptophyta), chiefly saprozoic flagellates found in fresh waters that have become stagnant: popular in laboratory studies.
  • chilomonas — a genus of flagellate algae comprising the chilomonads.
  • chimaerism — the insertion of cells of a different genetic make-up into a fetus or embryo
  • chimborazo — an extinct volcano in central Ecuador, in the Andes: the highest peak in Ecuador. Height: 6267 m (20 561 ft)
  • chimerical — wildly fanciful; imaginary
  • chimpanzee — A chimpanzee is a kind of small African ape.
  • chiromancy — palmistry
  • chlamydiae — the sexually transmitted diseases that are due to the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis
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