10-letter words containing m, b, a
- chambertin — a dry red burgundy wine produced in Gevrey-Chambertin in E France
- chambranle — the three-sided ornamental bordering found around doors, windows, and fireplaces
- chimborazo — an extinct volcano in central Ecuador, in the Andes: the highest peak in Ecuador. Height: 6267 m (20 561 ft)
- choliambic — relating to or in the form of choliambs
- choliambus — a line of iambic meter with a spondee or trochee replacing the last foot.
- choriambus — choriamb.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- clambering — of or relating to plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils.
- cloth beam — a roller, located at the front of a loom, on which woven material is wound after it leaves the breast beam.
- clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
- cochabamba — a city in central Bolivia. Pop: 561 000 (2005 est)
- coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
- collembola — Any of many minute wingless arthropods of subclass Collembola; a springtail.
- columbaria — Irregular plural form of columbarium.
- combat car — a small armoured car
- combatable — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combatants — a nation engaged in active fighting with enemy forces.
- combatting — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinable — capable of combining or being combined.
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- comm badge — a small combined radio transmitter and receiver, carried around by one person, esp military personnel, in the form of a badge worn on the chest
- commonable — (of land) held in common
- commutable — (of a punishment) capable of being reduced in severity
- comparable — Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance.
- comparably — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- compatable — Misspelling of compatible.
- compatible — If things, for example systems, ideas, and beliefs, are compatible, they work well together or can exist together successfully.
- compatibly — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
- compilable — (computing) That can be compiled.
- compliable — compliant
- composable — to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements: He composed his speech from many research notes.
- computable — computability theory
- consumable — Consumable goods are items which are intended to be bought, used, and then replaced.
- cramp ball — a hard round blackish ascomycetous fungus, Daldinia concentrica, characteristically found on the bark of ash trees and formerly carried to ward off cramp. The specific name refers to the concentric rings revealed if the fungus is sliced
- crossbeams — Plural form of crossbeam.
- cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- customable — subject to customs
- d'alembert — Jean Le Rond (ʒɑ̃ lə rɔ̃). 1717–83, French mathematician, physicist, and rationalist philosopher, noted for his contribution to Newtonian physics in Traité de dynamique (1743) and for his collaboration with Diderot in editing the Encyclopédie
- damageable — injury or harm that reduces value or usefulness: The storm did considerable damage to the crops.
- damp squib — You can describe something such as an event or a performance as a damp squib when it is expected to be interesting, exciting, or impressive, but fails to be any of these things.
- damsel bug — any of various bugs of the carnivorous family Nabiidae, related to the bedbugs but feeding on other insects. The larvae of some species mimic and associate with ants
- debasement — Debasement is the action of reducing the value or quality of something.
- debatement — the act of deliberating or arguing about something
- deformable — to mar the natural form or shape of; put out of shape; disfigure: In cases where the drug was taken during pregnancy, its effects deformed the infants.
- demand bid — a bid to which one's partner is obliged to respond.
- demandable — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- demothball — to remove (naval or military equipment) from storage or reserve, usually for active duty; reactivate.