14-letter words containing a, n, t, m
- case statement — switch statement
- casement cloth — a sheer fabric made of a variety of fibers, used for window curtains and as backing for heavy drapery or decorative fabrics.
- castrametation — the art of designing and laying out an encampment
- catchment area — The catchment area of a school, hospital, or other service is the area that it serves.
- catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
- celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
- centenarianism — the situation or condition of being a centenarian
- center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
- central moment — a moment about the center of a distribution, usually the mean.
- centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
- centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
- ceremonial tea — a Japanese green tea made from choice shade-grown leaves that are cured by a steaming, drying, and powdering process: used in chanoyu.
- chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
- chemical plant — a factory that produces or processes chemicals
- chemical toner — toner (def 4).
- chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
- chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
- chemotaxonomic — of or relating to chemotaxonomy
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- chondromatosis — a painful and immobilizing condition that affects the joints, in particular the elbow, hip, and knee joints, and results in the synovial tissue becoming cartilaginous
- christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
- chromatic sign — Music. accidental (def 5).
- 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.
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- cinnamon stick — a rolled strip of the dried aromatic bark of the tropical Asian lauraceous tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum, used as a spice for flavouring food and drink
- cinnamon stone — essonite
- cinnamon toast — buttered toast made with sugar and cinnamon
- circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
- circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
- circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
- circumnutation — the irregular spiral or elliptical rotation of the apex of a growing stem, root, or shoot, caused by differences in the rate of growth of the opposite sides
- circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
- circumrotation — Rotation or revolution around an axis.
- circumstancing — Present participle of circumstance.
- circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- cisnormativity — (LGBT, neologism) The assumption that all human beings are cisgender, i.e. have a gender identity which matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
- cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
- 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
- climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
- come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
- come to an end — to become completed or exhausted
- comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
- comma position — angulation (def 3).