10-letter words containing m, c, a
- adam's cup — pitcher plant.
- adenectomy — surgical removal of a gland
- admiraunce — admirance
- admittance — Admittance is the act of entering a place or institution or the right to enter it.
- adriamycin — a trade name of the anticancer drug doxorubicin
- aerenchyma — plant tissue with large air-filled spaces, which is typical of aquatic plants and allows air to reach waterlogged parts
- aeromancer — A practitioner of aeromancy.
- aerometric — Describing any measurement of a physical property of air (or other gases), but especially of temperature, pressure and velocity.
- affirmance — a verification, confirmation, or affirmation
- africanism — something characteristic of Africa or Africans, esp a characteristic feature of an African language when introduced into a non-African language
- agrammatic — Of, pertaining to, or afflicted by agrammatism.
- agronomics — the branch of economics dealing with the distribution, management, and productivity of land
- aircrewman — a member of an aircrew.
- alarm call — a telephone call that someone arranges to have made in order to wake him or her up in the morning
- alarmclock — Misspelling of alarm clock.
- alchemical — Alchemical means relating to the science of alchemy.
- alchemists — Plural form of alchemist.
- alchemized — Simple past tense and past participle of alchemize.
- alchymists — Plural form of alchymist.
- alcoholism — People who suffer from alcoholism cannot stop drinking large quantities of alcohol.
- aldermanic — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- all-comers — You use all-comers to refer to everyone who wants to take part in an activity, especially a competition.
- allometric — Of or pertaining to allometry.
- almucantar — a circle on the celestial sphere parallel to the horizontal plane
- alphametic — a mathematical puzzle using letters to express numbers that must be deciphered
- altimetric — Of or pertaining to altimetry.
- altocumuli — Plural form of altocumulus.
- altrincham — a residential town in NW England, in Trafford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 40 695 (2001)
- amarynceus — a king of Messene who ruled Elis with Augeas and who was slain by Nestor in a war against the Pylians.
- amberjacks — Plural form of amberjack.
- ambisonics — the technique of reproducing and transmitting surround sound
- amboceptor — an immune body formed in the blood during infection or immunization that serves to link the complement to the antigen
- ambulacral — one of the radial areas in an echinoderm, as the sea urchin, bearing the tube feet by which the creature moves.
- ambulacrum — any of five radial bands on the ventral surface of echinoderms, such as the starfish and sea urchin, on which the tube feet are situated
- ambulances — Plural form of ambulance.
- ambuscaded — Simple past tense and past participle of ambuscade.
- ambuscader — a person waiting in ambush; an ambusher
- ambuscades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ambuscade.
- amebocytes — Plural form of amebocyte, an alternative spelling of amoebocyte.
- amercement — to punish by imposing a fine not fixed by statute.
- americanos — Plural form of americano.
- ametabolic — (of certain insects) having no obvious metamorphosis
- amino acid — Amino acids are substances containing nitrogen and hydrogen and which are found in proteins. Amino acids occur naturally in the body.
- aminoacids — Plural form of aminoacid.
- ammocoetes — Plural form of ammocoete.
- ammoniacal — of, containing, using, or resembling ammonia
- amnioscopy — Examination of a foetus and the amniotic fluid in the lowest part of the amniotic sac using an amnioscope introduced through the cervical canal.
- amoebocyte — any cell having properties similar to an amoeba, such as shape, mobility, and ability to engulf particles
- amoscanate — An experimental anthelmintic agent of the arylisothiocyanate class, found to be highly effective in animals against hookworms and the four major species of schistosomes, but possibly hepatotoxic.
- amphibolic — equivocal; uncertain; changing; ambiguous.