10-letter words containing n, o, t, m
- bestowment — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- bi-monthly — occurring every two months.
- binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
- bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
- boehmenist — a supporter or adherent of Boehmenism.
- boot money — unofficial bonuses in the form of illegal cash payments made by a professional sports club to its players
- bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- bottomness — the number of bottom antiquarks minus the number of bottom quarks in a particle
- brainstorm — If you have a brainstorm, you suddenly become unable to think clearly.
- button man — soldier (sense 2) soldier (sense 2b)
- buttonmold — a small disk of wood, metal, etc., which is covered as with cloth or leather to form a button
- cajolement — The act of cajoling or the state of being cajoled.
- cameration — vaulting
- camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
- cantonment — A cantonment is a group of buildings or a camp where soldiers live.
- cartomancy — the telling of fortunes with playing cards
- catamounts — Plural form of catamount.
- centermost — Alternative form of centremost.
- centremost — Closest to the centre.
- centromere — the dense nonstaining region of a chromosome that attaches it to the spindle during mitosis
- centrosome — a small body in a cell where microtubules are produced. In animal cells it surrounds the centriole
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- chimneypot — a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards
- chromatins — Plural form of chromatin.
- cismontane — on this (the writer's or speaker's) side of the mountains, esp the Alps
- claymation — the techniques of animation applied to clay models
- clinometer — an instrument used in surveying for measuring an angle of inclination
- co-payment — payment required of an insured person for that portion of medical expenses not paid by the insurance company; specif., a fixed fee required for each prescription, visit to a doctor, etc.
- coatimundi — The ring-tailed coati, Nasua nasua, a south American carnivore.
- codominant — (of genes) having both alleles expressed equally in the phenotype of the organism
- coenosteum — the calcareous skeleton of a hydrocoral or a coral colony
- 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
- columnated — Architecture. a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces. a decorative pillar, most often composed of stone and typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft with a capital and usually a base.
- columnists — Plural form of columnist.
- comandante — commandant.
- combatants — a nation engaged in active fighting with enemy forces.
- combatting — to fight or contend against; oppose vigorously: to combat crime.
- combinator — (computer science) A lambda expression which has no free variables in it.
- combusting — Present participle of combust.
- combustion — Combustion is the act of burning something or the process of burning.
- come on to — When you come on to a particular topic, you start discussing it.
- comforting — If you say that something is comforting, you mean it makes you feel less worried or unhappy.
- coming out — the declaration that one is gay
- coming-out — a debut into society, especially a formal debut by a debutante.
- commandant — A commandant is an army officer in charge of a particular place or group of people.
- commandeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of command.
- commendeth — Archaic third-person singular form of commend.
- commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
- commentate — To commentate means to give a radio or television commentary on an event.