12-letter words containing a, r, m, y, o
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- commendatory — serving to commend; expressing praise or approval
- commercially — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- compulsatory — compulsory
- condemnatory — Condemnatory means expressing strong disapproval.
- confirmatory — confirming or tending to confirm
- conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
- consummatory — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- contemporary — Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.
- coomaraswamy — Ananda (Kentish). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West
- cotemporally — At the same time.
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- coxey's army — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- crystal form — a symmetrical set of planes in space, associated with a crystal, having the same symmetry as the crystal class
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- danger money — extra money paid to compensate for the risks involved in certain dangerous jobs
- deambulatory — a place for walking often with a covering overhead
- demonography — a treatise on demons.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- desquamatory — an obsolete surgical instrument once used for the desquamation of bones
- dipyridamole — a yellow crystalline powder, C 24 H 40 N 8 O 4 , used prophylactically for angina pectoris and in combination with other drugs to reduce thrombus formation.
- disopyramide — a substance, C 21 H 29 N 3 O, used in its phosphate form in the symptomatic and prophylactic treatment of certain cardiac arrhythmias.
- dynamometers — Plural form of dynamometer.
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- dysmenorrhea — painful menstruation.
- early modern — designating or of the period of European history from the end of the Middle Ages (c. 1450) to c. 1750
- eleemosynary — Of, relating to, or dependent on charity; charitable.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- emolumentary — advantageous; tending towards emolument
- erythematous — Of or pertaining to erythema.
- erythroderma — An inflammatory skin disease with erythema and scaling that affects nearly the entire cutaneous surface.
- extemporally — In an extemporal manner.
- factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- flash memory — Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.
- food pyramid — successive levels of predation in a food chain represented schematically as a pyramid because upper levels normally consist of decreasing numbers of larger predators.