9-letter words containing m, a, c, n
- armorican — a native or inhabitant of Armorica
- aromantic — Not given to experiencing romantic attraction to others.
- asemantic — not semantic
- attackman — a player whose primary role is to attack
- autonomic — occurring involuntarily or spontaneously
- backronym — an existing word turned into an acronym by creating an apt phrase whose initial letters match the word, as to help remember it or offer a theory of its origin. For example, rap has been said to be a backronym of “rhythm and poetry.”.
- balmacaan — a man's knee-length loose flaring overcoat with raglan sleeves
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- belomancy — the art of divination using arrows
- benchmark — A benchmark is something whose quality or quantity is known and which can therefore be used as a standard with which other things can be compared.
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
- cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
- cacodemon — an evil spirit or devil
- cacuminal — relating to or denoting a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue turned back towards the hard palate
- cairngorm — a smoky yellow, grey, or brown variety of quartz, used as a gemstone
- calamanco — a glossy woollen fabric woven with a checked design that shows on one side only
- calcaneum — calcaneus.
- calcimine — a white or pale tinted wash for walls
- calimanco — calamanco.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- calmingly — in a calming manner
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- calvinism — the theological system of John Calvin and his followers, characterized by emphasis on the doctrines of predestination, the irresistibility of grace, and justification by faith
- cam plant — any plant that undergoes a form of photosynthesis known as crassulacean acid metabolism, in which carbon dioxide is taken up only at night
- camanachd — the game of shinty
- cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- cameraman — A cameraman is a person who operates a camera for television or film making.
- cameramen — Plural form of cameraman.
- cameroons — former region in W Africa consisting of two trust territories, French Cameroons (in 1960 forming the republic of Cameroon ) and British Cameroons (in 1961 divided between Cameroon and Nigeria)
- camp oven — a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire
- campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
- campaigns — Plural form of campaign.
- campanile — (esp in Italy) a bell tower, not usually attached to another building
- campanist — an expert on bells
- campanula — any N temperate plant of the campanulaceous genus Campanula, typically having blue or white bell-shaped flowers
- campering — a person who camps out for recreation, especially in the wilderness.
- campervan — (Australia, NZ, British) A vehicle that provides both transport and sleeping accommodation.
- campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
- campiness — the quality of being campy
- campodean — a campodeid.
- candlemas — Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- candygram — a message accompanied by sweets
- cape-nome — a seaport in W Alaska.
- capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
- carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical