10-letter words containing a, m, p
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- boskop man — the undated cranial remains of a possible Homo sapiens found in the Transvaal of South Africa.
- brain dump — (The act of telling someone) everything one knows about a particular topic. Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code. Conceptually analogous to an operating system core dump in that it saves a lot of useful state before an exit. "You'll have to give me a brain dump on FOOBAR before you start your new job at HackerCorp." At Sun, this is also known as "TOI" (transfer of information).
- break camp — to pack up equipment and leave a camp
- broad jump — an exercise and athletic contest in which competitors try to jump the farthest distance possible from a standing start from a fixed board or mark
- broad-jump — long-jump.
- bump along — advance unevenly
- bump start — a method of starting a motor vehicle by engaging a low gear with the clutch depressed and pushing it or allowing it to run down a hill until sufficient momentum has been acquired to turn the engine by releasing the clutch
- bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
- callathump — a shivaree.
- callithump — a noisy band or parade
- camel spin — camel (def 3).
- camelopard — giraffe
- camp chair — a lightweight folding chair
- camp david — the US president's retreat in the Appalachian Mountains, Maryland: scene of the Camp David Agreement (Sept, 1978) between Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel, mediated by Jimmy Carter, which outlined a framework for establishing peace in the Middle East. This agreement was the basis of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt signed in Washington (March, 1979)
- camp it up — If a performer camps it up, they deliberately perform in an exaggerated and often amusing way.
- camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
- camp stove — a portable stove used for cooking or heating, especially outdoors.
- campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
- campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
- campanella — Tommaso. 1568–1639, Italian philosopher and Dominican friar. During his imprisonment by the Spaniards (1599–1626) he wrote his celebrated utopian fantasy, La città del sole
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
- campanular — shaped like a bell
- camper van — A camper van is a van which is equipped with beds and cooking equipment so that you can live, cook, and sleep in it.
- campership — financial aid given to a needy youngster to attend summer camp.
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- campground — A campground is the same as a campsite.
- camphorate — to apply, treat with, or impregnate with camphor
- campignian — of or relating to a Mesolithic and Neolithic technological facies characterized by picks and tranchets.
- campimeter — an instrument for determining the visual field.
- campimetry — a technique for assessing the central part of the visual field
- campobello — an island in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of SE Canada: part of New Brunswick province. Pop: 1195 (2001). Area: about 52 sq km (20 sq miles)
- campstools — Plural form of campstool.
- camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
- campuswide — Throughout a campus.
- cape smoke — South African brandy
- capitalism — Capitalism is an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are owned by private individuals and not by the state.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- capnomancy — divination by observing smoke patterns
- caporegime — the second in command to a capo; Mafia lieutenant.
- capsomeres — Plural form of capsomere.
- carbapenem — (organic compound) Any of a class of broad-spectrum beta-lactam antibiotics that are resistant to enzymatic hydrolysis.
- carpe diem — enjoy the pleasures of the moment, without concern for the future
- carpostome — the opening in the cystocarp of certain red algae through which the spores are discharged.
- cataplasms — Plural form of cataplasm.
- catawampus — askew; awry
- chain pump — a pump consisting of buckets, plates, or the like, rising upon a chain within a cylinder for raising liquids entering the cylinder at the bottom.
- chamberpot — a vessel for urine, used in bedrooms
- champagnes — Plural form of champagne.
- champaigne — Philippe de (filip də). 1602–74, French painter, born in Brussels: noted particularly for his portraits and historical and religious scenes