9-letter words containing m, a, c
- archenemy — a chief enemy
- archimage — a great magician or wizard
- archimime — The chief jester or mimic who would imitate the dead person as part of ancient Roman funeral processions.
- arcminute — unit of angular measurement, 1⁄60 of a degree
- arhythmic — Having no rhythm.
- armchairs — Plural form of armchair.
- armistice — An armistice is an agreement between countries who are at war with one another to stop fighting and to discuss ways of making peace.
- armorican — a native or inhabitant of Armorica
- arms race — An arms race is a situation in which two countries or groups of countries are continually trying to get more and better weapons than each other.
- aromantic — Not given to experiencing romantic attraction to others.
- aromatics — Plural form of aromatic.
- art music — music written by a composer rather than passed on by oral tradition
- asemantic — not semantic
- asthmatic — People who suffer from asthma are sometimes referred to as asthmatics.
- atacamite — a mineral, green in colour, containing copper and present in Australia, Chile, and Cornwall
- athematic — not based on themes
- atomicity — the state of being made up of atoms
- atomistic — of atoms or atomism
- attackman — a player whose primary role is to attack
- autocrime — a crime involving a motor vehicle, esp the theft of a car
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- automagic — done with such ease and speed as to seem like magic
- automatic — An automatic machine or device is one which has controls that enable it to perform a task without needing to be constantly operated by a person. Automatic methods and processes involve the use of such machines.
- autonomic — occurring involuntarily or spontaneously
- axiomatic — If something is axiomatic, it seems to be obviously true.
- bacciform — shaped like a berry
- back room — a place where research or planning is done, esp secret research in wartime
- 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.”.
- backrooms — Plural form of backroom.
- backstamp — a mark stamped on the back of an envelope by a post office to indicate the date and place of its arrival
- bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
- balmacaan — a man's knee-length loose flaring overcoat with raglan sleeves
- balsamico — Balsamic vinegar.
- bar clamp — a clamp having two jaws attached to a bar, one fixed and the other adjustable by means of a screw mechanism.
- barm cake — a round flat soft bread roll
- barmbrack — a loaf of bread with currants in it
- barmecide — lavish or plentiful in imagination only; illusory; sham
- base camp — an encampment that serves as a staging area for a larger activity, for example in mountaineering
- batchmate — (India) classmate.
- beach bum — If you refer to someone as a beach bum, you mean that they spend a lot of time enjoying themselves on the beach or in the sea.
- beachcomb — to search for and collect objects such as seashells and driftwood along the seashore
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- beclamour — to clamour excessively
- beechmast — collective term for beech nuts, esp when lying on the ground
- 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.
- bicameral — (of a legislature) consisting of two chambers
- bicompact — compact1 (def 7).
- black arm — a type or phase of bacterial blight of cotton, characterized by black, elongated lesions on the stem and branches, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas malvacearum.
- black gum — a tall, deciduous tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) with sour purple fruits and leaves that turn scarlet in the fall, found in moist forests of the E U.S.