10-letter words containing ome
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- bring home — introduce to parents
- bromegrass — any of various grasses of the genus Bromus, having small flower spikes in loose drooping clusters. Some species are used for hay
- bunglesome — characterized by bungling
- burdensome — If you describe something as burdensome, you mean it is worrying or hard to deal with.
- capsomeres — Plural form of capsomere.
- carpostome — the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
- ceilometer — a device for determining the cloud ceiling, esp by means of a reflected light beam
- 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
- chairwomen — Plural form of chairwoman.
- chironomer — a person who is skilled in chironomy
- chrome red — any red pigment used in paints, consisting of a mixture of lead chromate and lead oxide; basic lead chromate
- chromomere — any of the dense areas of chromatin along the length of a chromosome during the early stages of cell division
- chromosome — A chromosome is a part of a cell in an animal or plant. It contains genes which determine what characteristics the animal or plant will have.
- cibachrome — the old name for the Ilfochrome photographic printing process
- clapometer — a device that measures applause
- clinometer — an instrument used in surveying for measuring an angle of inclination
- cliometric — Of or pertaining to cliometrics.
- come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
- 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.
- come along — You tell someone to come along to encourage them in a friendly way to do something, especially to attend something.
- come clean — to make a revelation or confession
- come first — If you say that someone or something comes first for a particular person, you mean they treat or consider that person or thing as more important than anything else.
- come on to — When you come on to a particular topic, you start discussing it.
- come round — to be restored to life or consciousness
- come under — If you come under attack or pressure, for example, people attack you or put pressure on you.
- come up to — To be coming up to a time or state means to be getting near to it.
- come-outer — an outspoken or very active supporter of a cause, especially a reformer or a social activist.
- comebacker — (baseball) A pop fly that falls behind home plate, typically caught by the catcher for an out.
- comedienne — A comedienne is a female entertainer whose job is to make people laugh, by telling jokes or funny stories.
- comedietta — a short comic stage or musical production
- comeliness — pleasing in appearance; attractive; fair: a comely face.
- comestible — food
- cometology — the study of comets
- comeupance — Alternative form of comeuppance.
- connectome — (biology) The complete description of the structural connectivity of an organism's nervous system.
- cosmodrome — a site, esp one in the former Soviet Union, from which spacecraft are launched
- coulometer — an electrolytic cell for measuring the magnitude of an electric charge by determining the total amount of decomposition resulting from the passage of the charge through the cell
- coulometry — a method used in quantitative analysis, whereby the amount of a substance set free or deposited during electrolysis is determined by measuring the number of coulombs that passed through the electrolyte.
- cryometers — Plural form of cryometer.
- cryometric — of or relating to cryometry
- cuddlesome — cuddly (sense 1)
- cumbersome — Something that is cumbersome is large and heavy and therefore difficult to carry, wear, or handle.
- cyanometer — an instrument used for measuring the blueness of the sky
- cyclometer — a device that records the number of revolutions made by a wheel and hence the distance travelled
- cyclostome — any primitive aquatic jawless vertebrate of the class Cyclostomata, such as the lamprey and hagfish, having a round sucking mouth and pouchlike gills
- cystometer — a device for determining the reaction of the urinary bladder to increased internal pressure.
- cytochrome — any of a group of naturally occurring compounds, consisting of iron, a protein, and a porphyrin, that are important in cell oxidation-reduction reactions