14-letter words containing c, e, m, t
- commentatorial — relating to commentators or the creation of commentaries
- commercial art — graphic art for commercial uses such as advertising, packaging, etc
- commiserations — Plural form of commiseration.
- commitment fee — a charge made by a bank, in addition to interest, to make a loan available to a potential borrower
- committeewoman — a female member of a committee
- committeewomen — Plural form of committeewoman.
- common objects — (language) An object-oriented Lisp from Hewlett-Packard.
- community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
- community home — a home provided by a local authority for children who cannot remain with parents or relatives, or be placed with foster parents
- community life — the life and activities of a community
- compact camera — a simple 35 mm snapshot camera not having interchangeable lenses or through-the-lens focusing but sometimes having automatic focusing, exposure, and winding
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compensational — the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
- complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
- complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
- complexometric — as in complexometric indicator, an ionochromic dye that undergoes a definite colour change in presence of specific metal ions
- complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
- composite shot — split screen.
- composite vote — a voting result arrived at through averaging or combining other votes
- composite-shot — Also called composite shot. Movies, Television. a type of process photography in which two or more shots are juxtaposed and projected simultaneously on the screen.
- compound meter — any time signature in which the upper figure is a multiple of 3, as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, etc.
- compton effect — a phenomenon in which a collision between a photon and a particle results in an increase in the kinetic energy of the particle and a corresponding increase in the wavelength of the photon
- compute server — (computer, parallel) A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
- computer crime — crime perpetrated on or requiring the use of computers
- computer error — an error attributed to the action of a computer
- computer model — a model of a process or object created on a computer
- computer virus — virus
- computer-aided — done or improved by computer
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- computerphobic — a computerphobe
- concertmasters — Plural form of concertmaster.
- concrete mixer — a device used for mixing cement, sand, gravel, or other substances to make concrete; it has a rotating drum in which the concrete is mixed
- concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
- conductometric — relating to the measurement of conductivity
- conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
- conglomerating — Present participle of conglomerate.
- conglomeration — A conglomeration of things is a group of many different things, gathered together.
- conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
- conservativism — Alternative form of conservatism.
- contact cement — an adhesive that sets when the surfaces it is applied to are brought in contact with each other
- contact number — a person's telephone number
- contemperation — the act of contempering
- contemperature — the action of mixing together harmoniously or proportionately
- contemplatable — That can be contemplated.
- contemplations — Plural form of contemplation.
- contemplatives — Plural form of contemplative.