10-letter words containing r, a, m
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- coursemate — One who is taking the same academic course.
- 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
- cramp iron — a piece of iron with bent ends for holding together building stones or the like.
- craniotomy — any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
- crash team — a medical team with special equipment able to be mobilized quickly to treat cardiac arrest
- cream cake — a cake containing a filling of cream
- cream pail — an open bowl of silver having a ladle or spoon for serving cream.
- cream puff — a shell of light pastry with a custard or cream filling
- cream soda — a carbonated soft drink flavoured with vanilla
- creameries — Plural form of creamery.
- creaminess — containing cream.
- creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
- 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.
- criminally — In a criminal manner.
- cro magnon — an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm).
- cro-magnon — belonging to a prehistoric, Caucasoid type of human who lived on the European continent, distinguished by tallness and erect stature, and by the use of stone and bone implements, principally of Aurignacian culture
- crocosmias — Plural form of crocosmia.
- crossbeams — Plural form of crossbeam.
- crossclaim — a secondary claim brought by a defendant in a lawsuit on a co-defendant
- crossmatch — (pathology) To test that the blood of a donor and recipient are compatible.
- cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
- cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- cumberland — (until 1974) a county of NW England, now part of Cumbria
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- curtmantle — ("Henry the Saint") 973–1024, king of Germany 1002–24 and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1014–24.
- custom car — a car that is built to the buyer's own specifications
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyathiform — shaped like a drinking glass or cup, with a wider upper section
- cycloramas — Plural form of cyclorama.
- cycloramic — a pictorial representation, in perspective, of a landscape, battle, etc., on the inner wall of a cylindrical room or hall, viewed by spectators occupying a position in the center.
- cyma recta — a cyma whose concave part projects beyond the convex part.
- cystograms — Plural form of cystogram.
- 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
- dad's army — an affectionate or humorous term for the British Home Guard during World War II
- dairy farm — a farm which has cows producing milk, rather than for beef
- dairymaids — Plural form of dairymaid.
- dairywoman — a woman who owns, manages, or works in a dairy.
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- damaraland — a plateau region of central Namibia, the traditional homeland of the Damara people
- damp-proof — to protect against the incursion of damp by adding a dampcourse or by coating with a moisture-resistant preparation
- dampcourse — a horizontal layer of impervious material in a brick wall, fairly close to the ground, to stop moisture rising
- dance form — the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.
- danger man — a person, esp a member of a sports team, who is likely to inflict damage on opponents
- dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.
- data frame — activation record