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14-letter words containing a, c, e, r, m

  • christmas time — the period around Christmas
  • christmas tree — A Christmas tree is a fir tree, or an artificial tree that looks like a fir tree, which people put in their houses at Christmas and decorate with coloured lights and ornaments.
  • christmasberry — toyon.
  • chromatophores — Plural form of chromatophore.
  • chrome leather — leather tanned with chrome.
  • chromosome map — a graphic representation of the positions of genes on chromosomes, obtained by observation of chromosome bands or by determining the degree of linkage between genes
  • chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
  • chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
  • ciliary muscle — the smooth muscle in the ciliary body, the action of which affects the accommodation of the eye.
  • cimarron-river — a river flowing E from NE New Mexico to the Arkansas River in Oklahoma. 600 miles (965 km) long.
  • cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
  • circumagitated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumagitate.
  • circumambulate — to walk around (something)
  • circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
  • circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • civil marriage — a marriage performed by some official other than a clergyman
  • clamshell door — Often, clamshell doors. a door consisting of two panels that spread open vertically, as those located on the underside of some cargo planes.
  • clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
  • climate canary — a human being or other living organism whose lack of health indicates environmental problems, reminiscent of the way in which live canaries were once used to detect the presence of poisonous gas in coal mines
  • climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
  • closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
  • co-trimoxazole — an antibiotic consisting of a mixture of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole (a sulfa drug): used esp to treat infections of the urinary tract and lungs (as in AIDS)
  • columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
  • coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
  • combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
  • come a cropper — If you say that someone has come a cropper, you mean that they have had an unexpected and embarrassing failure.
  • come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
  • commemorations — Plural form of commemoration.
  • commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commentary box — the place where the commentators on a sporting event sit
  • commentatorial — relating to commentators or the creation of commentaries
  • commercial art — graphic art for commercial uses such as advertising, packaging, etc
  • commercial law — business law
  • commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
  • commercialises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commercialise.
  • commercialized — spoiled by commercial exploitation; degraded
  • commercializer — to emphasize the profitable aspects of, especially at the expense of quality: to commercialize one's artistic talent.
  • commercializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commercialize.
  • commiserations — Plural form of commiseration.
  • commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
  • common carrier — a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers
  • common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
  • common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
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