10-letter words containing y, a, m
- autumnally — belonging to or suggestive of autumn; produced or gathered in autumn: autumnal colors.
- axinomancy — prediction of the future using the head of an axe or hatchet
- axonometry — the branch of crystallography concerned with measurement of the axes of crystals
- babyboomer — Alternative spelling of baby boomer.
- babymakers — Plural form of babymaker.
- backronyms — Plural form of backronym.
- ballymoney — a district in N Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim. Pop: 27 809 (2003 est). Area: 417 sq km (161 sq miles)
- bank money — checks, drafts, and bank credits other than currency that are the equivalent of money.
- bathymeter — An instrument used to measure the depth of water in oceans, seas, or lakes.
- bathymetry — measurement of the depth of an ocean or other large body of water
- belly-slam — belly-flop.
- betty lamp — an Early American lamp, consisting of a shallow, covered basin filled with oil, tallow, etc., providing fuel for a wick housed in a teapotlike spout, and often hung by a hook or suspended from a chain.
- bimodality — the state of being bimodal
- biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
- biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
- body armor — Body armor is special protective clothing that people such as soldiers and police officers sometimes wear when they are in danger of being attacked with guns or other weapons.
- body image — an individual's concept of his or her own body
- bonus army — a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- bony bream — an Australian freshwater clupeid fish, Fluvialosa richardsonii
- brachydome — a dome whose face is parallel to the brachydiagonal axis in a crystal
- bradyseism — a gradual rise or fall in the earth's crust
- by mistake — accidentally, not on purpose
- cad system — A CAD system is a computer system for designing parts or products before they are manufactured.
- caecostomy — (surgery) An operation involving bringing the caecum through the abdominal wall, most often by a tube, and opening it for drainage or decompression, usually to treat an obstruction of the colon.
- call money — money loaned by banks and recallable on demand
- calyciform — having the form of a calyx
- camera-shy — Someone who is camera-shy is nervous and uncomfortable about being filmed or about having their photograph taken.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- capnomancy — divination by observing smoke patterns
- cardiotomy — (surgery) The procedure of making an incision in the heart.
- cartomancy — the telling of fortunes with playing cards
- cash money — cash, as distinguished from a check or money order.
- cataclysms — Plural form of cataclysm.
- cavalryman — A cavalryman is a soldier who is in the cavalry, especially one who rides a horse.
- cavalrymen — a soldier in the cavalry.
- charmingly — In a charming manner.
- chasmogamy — the production of flowers that open, so as to expose the reproductive organs and allow cross-pollination
- chemically — a substance produced by or used in a chemical process.
- chemonasty — the nastic movement of a plant in response to a chemical stimulus
- chiromancy — palmistry
- chlamydate — (of some molluscs) possessing a mantle
- chlamydiae — the sexually transmitted diseases that are due to the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis
- chlamydial — of or relating to infections caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia
- chlamydias — Plural form of chlamydia.
- chroma key — an electronic special-effects system for combining a desired background with live foreground action.
- chromatype — a procedure in photography that uses photographic paper that is made reactive to light by the use of a salt of chromium
- chyloderma — (medicine) swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction.
- claymation — the techniques of animation applied to clay models
- cleromancy — a divination involving dice-throwing or lot-casting
- 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.