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10-letter words containing a, m, p

  • composable — to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements: He composed his speech from many research notes.
  • compotator — a person who drinks or tipples with another.
  • computable — computability theory
  • computator — a person who computes or calculates
  • copayments — Plural form of copayment.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • creampuffs — Plural form of creampuff.
  • cryptogams — Plural form of cryptogam.
  • cryptogamy — the state of being a cryptogam
  • cryptogram — a secret symbol
  • curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
  • cyclic amp — cyclic adenosine monophosphate: a constituent of biological cells, responsible for triggering processes that are dependent on hormones
  • cytoplasms — Plural form of cytoplasm.
  • damp squib — You can describe something such as an event or a performance as a damp squib when it is expected to be interesting, exciting, or impressive, but fails to be any of these things.
  • 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
  • date stamp — an adjustable rubber stamp for recording the date
  • date-stamp — to stamp the date on, as with a date stamp: He date-stamped every letter received.
  • death camp — A death camp is a place where prisoners are kept, especially during a war, and where many of them die or are killed.
  • decampment — The act of decamping.
  • deemphasis — Alternative spelling of de-emphasis.
  • deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
  • demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
  • department — A department is one of the sections in an organization such as a government, business, or university. A department is also one of the sections in a large shop.
  • dermopathy — Disease of the skin.
  • despumated — Simple past tense and past participle of despumate.
  • deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
  • diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
  • diaphragms — Plural form of diaphragm.
  • diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
  • diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
  • diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
  • diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
  • dipsomania — an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drink.
  • dopexamine — A \u03b21- and \u03b22-adrenergic receptor agonist.
  • dreamscape — a dreamlike, often surrealistic scene.
  • dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
  • e & oe — errors and omissions excepted
  • ecmascript — (language)   (ECMA standard 262, ISO standard 16262) The standardised version of the core JavaScript language.
  • elecampane — A plant that has yellow daisylike flowers with long slender petals and bitter aromatic roots that are used in herbal medicine, native to central Asia.
  • emacs lisp — (language)   A dialect of Lisp used to implement the higher layers of the Free Software Foundation's editor, GNU Emacs. Sometimes abbreviated to "elisp". An enormous number of Emacs Lisp packages have been written including modes for editing many programming languages and interfaces to many Unix programs.
  • emancipate — Set free, esp. from legal, social, or political restrictions.
  • emancipist — (Australia, historical) In penal colonies of early Australia, a convict who had been pardoned for good conduct; sometimes inclusively a convict whose sentence had completed, though one such was more usually called an expiree.
  • emmetropia — The condition of perfect vision, where images are correctly brought to a focus on the retina.
  • empaneling — Present participle of empanel.
  • empanelled — Simple past tense and past participle of empanel.
  • emparadise — to turn (a place or state) into a paradise
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