10-letter words that end in m
- convictism — the system of establishing a settlement, esp in Australia, and then transporting convicts to this settlement for confinement
- copperworm — a shipworm, Teredo navalis
- corn broom — a broom made from the panicles of broomcorn.
- corniculum — a small horn or corniform part
- coryneform — resembling a corynebacterium
- cottierism — (in Ireland) the system of cottier tenure
- cotton gum — a tall tupelo (Nyssa aquatica) with cottony leaves, found in swamps of the SE U.S.
- cotyliform — shaped like a cup
- crash team — a medical team with special equipment able to be mobilized quickly to treat cardiac arrest
- cribriform — pierced with holes; sievelike
- crippledom — the state of being crippled
- cristiform — crest-shaped
- crossclaim — a secondary claim brought by a defendant in a lawsuit on a co-defendant
- cryptogram — a secret symbol
- cuculiform — of, relating to, or belonging to the order Cuculiformes, which includes the cuckoos
- cucumiform — shaped like a cucumber
- culiciform — resembling a gnat
- cultriform — (botany, zoology) Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.
- cumuliform — resembling a cumulus cloud
- cunningham — Merce (mɜːs). 1919–2009 US dancer and choreographer. His experimental ballets include Suite for Five (1956) and Travelogue (1977)
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- curriculum — A curriculum is all the different courses of study that are taught in a school, college, or university.
- cyathiform — shaped like a drinking glass or cup, with a wider upper section
- dairy farm — a farm which has cows producing milk, rather than for beef
- damson jam — jam made from the fruit of the damson tree
- dance form — the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.
- deafmutism — unable to hear and speak.
- decadrachm — a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to 10 drachmas.
- decimalism — a method or practice based on units, divisions, or multiples of ten
- delphinium — A delphinium is a garden plant which has a tall stem with blue flowers growing up it.
- delta team — an assault unit of highly trained and specialized U.S. troops that can be quickly dispatched to deal with terrorist action.
- demagogism — The practices and principles of a demagogue; a pandering to the multitude for selfish ends.
- demirepdom — the world or society of demireps
- dendriform — branching or treelike in appearance
- dendrobium — a genus of tropical orchid, predominantly growing from trees or occasionally from rocks
- dendrogram — any branching diagram, such as a cladogram, showing the interconnections between treelike organisms
- dental dam — Also called rubber dam. a thin piece of latex placed over the tooth or teeth being treated during endodontic treatment or other dental work.
- dermatherm — an instrument for measuring skin temperature.
- dermotherm — an instrument for measuring skin temperature.
- desiderium — a powerful desire or yearning, especially for something once had
- designatum — (semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
- dichromism — the state of being dichromic
- digitalism — the abnormal condition resulting from an overconsumption of digitalis.
- digitiform — like a finger.
- digitorium — a small portable keyboard for a pianist to play finger exercises on
- dimorphism — Zoology. the occurrence of two forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species. Compare sexual dimorphism.
- diothelism — the doctrine that Christ on earth had two wills, human and divine
- direct sum — a composition of two disjoint sets, as vector spaces, such that every element in the composition can be written uniquely as the sum of two elements, one from each of the given sets.