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

  • crimen injuria — an action that injures the dignity of another person, esp use of racially offensive language
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
  • cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
  • crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
  • currant tomato — a Peruvian plant, Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium, of the nightshade family, having numerous bell-shaped, yellow flowers and small, currantlike, red fruit.
  • customer's man — registered representative.
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
  • discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
  • disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
  • documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
  • fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
  • flame-coloured — having a strong reddish-orange colour
  • flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
  • fluorochemical — a chemical compound containing fluorine.
  • fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
  • free churchman — (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a free church.
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • garcia marquez — Gabriel [gey-bree-uh l,, gah-bree-el;; Spanish gah-vree-el] /ˈgeɪ bri əl,, ˌgɑ briˈɛl;; Spanish ˌgɑ vriˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1927–2014, Colombian novelist and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1982.
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • generic markup — (text)   In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, such as paragraphs, headers or footnotes. SGML is an example of such a system. Specific instructions for layout of the text on the page do not appear in the markup.
  • group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
  • gum tragacanth — tragacanth.
  • hammer crusher — A hammer crusher is a crusher in which a hammer hits the material that is being crushed.
  • home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
  • humoristically — In a humoristic way.
  • hurricane lamp — a candlestick or oil lantern protected against drafts or winds by a glass chimney.
  • hydraulic ramp — a movable ramp operated by pressure transmitted through a pipe by a liquid
  • hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperuricaemia — an abnormal elevation of uric acid in the blood
  • hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • ice-cream suit — a man's lightweight summer suit of white or a finely striped or solid pastel color.
  • immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • intramercurial — within Mercury's orbit
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
  • jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
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