10-letter words containing m, i, c, a, e
- colemanite — a colourless or white glassy mineral consisting of hydrated calcium borate in monoclinic crystalline form. It occurs with and is a source of borax. Formula: Ca2B6O11.5H2O
- collimated — Simple past tense and past participle of collimate.
- collimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collimate.
- combinable — capable of combining or being combined.
- come again — Some people say 'Come again?' when they want you to repeat what you have just said.
- come alive — If people, places, or events come alive, they start to be lively again after a quiet period. If someone or something brings them alive, they cause them to come alive.
- comedietta — a short comic stage or musical production
- comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- comitative — (of a case) expressing accompaniment
- commercial — Commercial means involving or relating to the buying and selling of goods.
- compatible — If things, for example systems, ideas, and beliefs, are compatible, they work well together or can exist together successfully.
- compendial — Related to a compendium that serves as a standard, such as the w British Pharmacopoeia, or the w US Pharmacopeia.
- compilable — (computing) That can be compiled.
- complained — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- compliable — compliant
- compliance — a disposition to yield to or comply with others
- complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
- conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
- cosmetical — relating to cosmetics
- coterminal — having the same border or covering the same area.
- cream pail — an open bowl of silver having a ladle or spoon for serving cream.
- creameries — Plural form of creamery.
- creaminess — containing cream.
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- crematoria — a crematory.
- crime wave — When more crimes than usual are committed in a particular place, you can refer to this as a crime wave.
- culminated — Simple past tense and past participle of culminate.
- culminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of culminate.
- cumulative — If a series of events have a cumulative effect, each event makes the effect greater.
- cysteamine — a drug used to treat cystine excretion or radiation sickness
- daemonical — Of or relating to daemons; diabolical.
- decametric — relating to or calculated by a decametre or measure equivalent to ten metres
- decay time — the time required for a collection of atoms of a particular radionuclide to decay to a fraction of the initial number equal to 1/e, where e = 2.7182818 …, used as the base of natural logarithms.
- decimalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of decimalize.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- decimalist — a person who is in favour of decimalism
- decimalize — to change (a system, number, etc) to the decimal system
- decimating — Present participle of decimate.
- decimation — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decinormal — having one tenth of the strength of a standard solution
- declaiming — Present participle of declaim.
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- dekametric — (of a radio wave) having a wavelength between 10 and 100 meters: decametric wave.
- demicanton — either of the two parts of certain Swiss cantons
- demilancer — A soldier who carries a demilance.
- democratic — A democratic country, government, or political system is governed by representatives who are elected by the people.
- demoniacal — of, relating to, or like a demon; demonic: demoniac laughter.
- deracemize — (chemistry) To convert a racemic mixture into one or other of the enantiomers.
- diathermic — of or relating to diathermy