9-letter words containing a, l, m, e
- blue army — an organization maintaining a directory of tradesmen and checking on the quality of the service they provide.
- blue mass — Also called mercury mass. a preparation of metallic mercury and other ingredients, used for making blue pills.
- boilerman — a man who looks after boilers
- bombilate — to make a buzzing noise
- bone meal — Bone meal is a substance made from animal bones which is used as a fertilizer.
- bowl game — bowl1 (def 8).
- bromelain — an enzyme derived from pineapple, used as an anti-inflammatory agent in homeopathy and as a meat tenderizer in the food industry
- bromeliad — any plant of the tropical American family Bromeliaceae, typically epiphytes with a rosette of fleshy leaves. The family includes the pineapple and Spanish moss
- bushelman — a person who alters or repairs garments; busheler.
- cablegram — a message sent by undersea cable
- cacomixle — Alternative spelling of cacomixl.
- calamites — Plural form of calamite.
- calcaneum — calcaneus.
- calcimine — a white or pale tinted wash for walls
- calembour — a pun
- call time — to suspend play temporarily
- calmative — (of a remedy or agent) sedative
- calumnies — Plural form of calumny.
- cam wheel — a wheel, with an off-center axis or irregular shape, that functions as a cam.
- camel toe — the visual effect created when a woman's trousers cling too tightly to the crotch, emphasizing the shape of the pudenda
- camel-toe — the outline of a vulva as sometimes seen when a woman is wearing tight pants.
- camelback — a locomotive having its cab situated astride the boiler, halfway along it, rather than at the rear of the boiler
- camelcase — the convention of writing compound words or phrases with no spaces and an initial lowercase or uppercase letter, with each remaining word element beginning with an uppercase letter: iPod and WikiAnswers are both spelled in camel case.
- cameleers — Plural form of cameleer.
- camelhair — the hair of the camel or dromedary, used in clothing, rugs, etc
- camellias — Plural form of camellia.
- camellike — resembling a camel
- camisoles — Plural form of camisole.
- camouflet — a type of bomb that is used during a siege to collapse an enemy's tunnel
- campanile — (esp in Italy) a bell tower, not usually attached to another building
- candlemas — Feb 2, the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of Christ in the Temple: the day on which the church candles are blessed. In Scotland it is one of the four quarter days
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- carambole — to make a carom
- carmelite — a member of an order of mendicant friars founded about 1154; White Friar
- carmelize — (US) Alternative form of caramelize.
- carpellum — (botany) A carpel.
- cartelism — the practice of forming cartels
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- cattleman — A cattleman is a man who looks after or owns cattle, especially in North America or Australia.
- cattlemen — Plural form of cattleman.
- cellarman — a person in charge of a cellar where wine or beer is stored
- cellarmen — Plural form of cellarman.
- cellmates — Plural form of cellmate.
- chalumeau — an early reed instrument, the precursor of the clarinet
- chameleon — A chameleon is a kind of lizard whose skin changes colour to match the colour of its surroundings.
- chamomile — camomile
- champleve — of or relating to a process of enamelling by which grooves are cut into a metal base and filled with enamel colours
- charmless — If you say that something or someone is charmless, you mean that they are unattractive or uninteresting.
- chemicals — the commercial production and sale of chemical products
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.