10-letter words containing m, a, t, e
- cameltoe's — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
- cameralist — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- cameration — vaulting
- camp stove — a portable stove used for cooking or heating, especially outdoors.
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
- cant frame — any of several frames bracketed aft of the transom of a ship and inclined slightly to the fore-and-aft direction.
- cantonment — A cantonment is a group of buildings or a camp where soldiers live.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- carmarthen — a market town in S Wales, the administrative centre of Carmarthenshire: Norman castle. Pop: 14 648 (2001)
- carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
- carpostome — the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
- carthamine — a yellow or red dye obtained from safflower
- cash terms — the terms of a business transaction that is conducted in ready money
- caste mark — a mark on the skin that shows which caste a Hindu belongs to, esp a dot painted on the forehead
- castmember — A member of a theatrical cast.
- cat's meow — Slang. someone or something wonderful or remarkable.
- catamenial — Of or relating to the menses or menstruation.
- catamnesis — a medical history following the onset of an illness.
- catchments — Plural form of catchment.
- catechisms — Plural form of catechism.
- catechumen — a person, esp in the early Church, undergoing instruction prior to baptism
- cathemeral — Relating to organisms that have sporadic and random intervals during the day or night in which food is acquired.
- cefmatilen — An orally active cephalosporin antibiotic.
- cemeterial — of or relating to a cemetery or to burial.
- centesimal — hundredth
- centigrams — Plural form of centigram.
- centralism — Centralism is a way of governing a country, or organizing something such as industry, education, or politics, which involves having one central group of people who give instructions to everyone else.
- ceramicist — a person who makes ceramics.
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
- chambertin — a dry red burgundy wine produced in Gevrey-Chambertin in E France
- checkmated — (chess) Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game.
- checkmates — Plural form of checkmate.
- cheltenham — a town in W England, in central Gloucestershire: famous for its schools, racecourse, and saline springs (discovered in 1716). Pop: 98 875 (2001)
- chemiatric — healing by the use of chemicals
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- chemostats — Plural form of chemostat.
- chemotaxis — the movement of a microorganism or cell in response to a chemical stimulus
- chief mate — first mate.
- chlamydate — (of some molluscs) possessing a mantle
- chrematist — a person who studies political economy or is interested in the wealth of countries
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- cinematics — the art of making motion pictures; cinematography.
- cinematise — (transitive) To adapt (an event or story) for the cinema.
- cinematize — to adapt (a novel or play) for cinema
- cismontane — on this (the writer's or speaker's) side of the mountains, esp the Alps
- clapometer — a device that measures applause