16-letter words containing c, e, m, t
- commission agent — a person who sells goods and services for a fee
- commit to memory — to learn by heart; memorize
- committee member — a member of a committee
- committee of one — an individual person designated to function alone as a committee.
- common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
- commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
- community center — A community center is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
- community centre — A community centre is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
- community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
- community leader — a leading figure in a community
- community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
- commutation-test — the act of substituting one thing for another; substitution; exchange.
- comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
- compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
- compartmentalize — To compartmentalize something means to divide it into separate sections.
- compartmentation — subdivision of a hull into spaces enclosed by watertight bulkheads and sometimes by watertight decks.
- competitive edge — business: superiority
- complete lattice — A lattice is a partial ordering of a set under a relation where all finite subsets have a least upper bound and a greatest lower bound. A complete lattice also has these for infinite subsets. Every finite lattice is complete. Some authors drop the requirement for greatest lower bounds.
- complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
- complex sentence — a sentence containing at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
- complexing agent — an intricate or complicated association or assemblage of related things, parts, units, etc.: the entire complex of our educational system; an apartment complex.
- complexity class — (algorithm) A collection of algorithms or computable functions with the same complexity.
- complicitousness — (rare, possibly nonstandard) Complicity.
- compliments slip — a slip of paper sent with a parcel that identifies the sender and expresses compliments
- composite family — the large and varied plant family Compositae (or Asteraceae), typified by herbaceous plants having alternate, opposite, or whorled leaves and a whorl of bracts surrounding the flower heads, which are usually composed of a disk containing tiny petalless flowers and a ray of petals extending from the flowers at the rim of the disk, some flower heads being composed only of a disk or a ray and some plants having clusters of flower heads, and including the aster, daisy, dandelion, goldenrod, marigold, ragweed, sunflower, thistle, and zinnia.
- composite motion — a motion in a deliberative body that combines elements of several related motions
- composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
- composite school — a secondary school offering both academic and nonacademic courses
- compromise joint — a joint for linking together rails having different sections.
- compute parallel — (language) (Compel) The first single-assignment language.
- computer network — network
- computer program — a set of instructions for a computer to perform some task
- computer science — the study of computers and their application
- computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
- concert promoter — an organizer of concerts and concert tours
- condensed matter — crystalline and amorphous solids and liquids, including liquid crystals, glasses, polymers, and gels
- confederationism — The advocacy of confederation as a means of government.
- consent judgment — a judgment settled and agreed to by the parties to the action. Compare consent decree (def 2).
- consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
- consignment note — a document containing particulars of goods for shipment and which provides proof that the consignment has been received by the carrier for delivery
- consonant system — the consonant phonemes of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
- constant lambert — Constant [kon-stuh nt] /ˈkɒn stənt/ (Show IPA), 1905–51, English composer and conductor.
- consumer society — You can use consumer society to refer to a society where people think that spending money on goods and services is very important.
- consumption weed — groundsel tree.
- contact magazine — a magazine in which to place adverts to make contacts, esp sexual ones
- contemporariness — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contemptibleness — The state or quality of being contemptible.
- contemptuousness — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
- continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
- continuous miner — continuous cutter.