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13-letter words containing a, c, m

  • crack of doom — doomsday; the end of the world; the Day of Judgment
  • craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
  • craftsmanship — Craftsmanship is the skill that someone uses when they make beautiful things with their hands.
  • cramer's rule — a method involving the determinant of the coefficients, for calculating a unique solution for a given system of linear equations.
  • crape jasmine — a shrub, Tabernaemontana divaricata, native to India, having white flowers that are fragrant at night.
  • crash blossom — an ambiguously worded headline whose meaning can be interpreted in the wrong way, as “Missing Woman Remains Found.”. See also garden-path.
  • crash program — a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem: a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.
  • cream cracker — Cream crackers are crisp dry biscuits which are eaten with cheese.
  • cream-colored — yellowish-white
  • credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
  • crème caramel — a dessert made of eggs, sugar, milk, etc, topped with caramel
  • creme fraiche — Crème fraiche is a type of thick, slightly sour cream.
  • creole tomato — cherry tomato.
  • crimean tatar — a member of a Turkic people who lived in the Crimea before emigration to Anatolia in the 18th and 19th centuries and deportations to Soviet central Asia after World War II.
  • criminal code — the body of laws regulating how crimes are to be punished
  • criminalising — Present participle of criminalise.
  • criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
  • criminalizing — Present participle of criminalize.
  • cringe-making — causing feelings of acute embarrassment or distaste
  • critical mass — In physics, the critical mass of a substance is the minimum amount of it that is needed for a nuclear chain reaction.
  • cross-examine — When a lawyer cross-examines someone during a trial or hearing, he or she questions them about the evidence that they have already given.
  • cryptoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
  • cuprotitanium — (metallurgy) An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.
  • custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste
  • custom-tailor — to modify to fit a specific use or need; tailor-make.
  • customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
  • customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
  • customer care — the work of looking after customers and ensuring their satisfaction with one's business and its goods or services
  • customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
  • customisation — Alternative spelling of customization.
  • customization — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
  • cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
  • cyclamic acid — a white crystalline solid, C 6 H 13 NSO 3 , the salts of which are referred to as cyclamates: used as an acidulant.
  • cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
  • dactyliomancy — the use of a suspended finger-ring for divination
  • dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
  • dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
  • damnification — That which causes damage or loss.
  • damson cheese — thick damson jam
  • dance company — a group of dancers, usually including business and technical personnel
  • danse macabre — dance of death
  • death chamber — a room in which someone has died
  • decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
  • decimal place — the position of a digit after the decimal point, each successive position to the right having a denominator of an increased power of ten
  • decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
  • decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
  • decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
  • decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
  • decompilation — The act, or the result of decompiling.
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