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13-letter words containing c, e, r, a, m

  • chromotherapy — the use of colour and light as a restorative therapy and to promote mental and physical well-being
  • chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
  • chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
  • ciceronianism — imitation of the style of Cicero, especially as practiced by some writers and orators during the Renaissance.
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • cinema verite — films characterized by subjects, actions, etc, that have the appearance of real life
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • cinnamon bear — a reddish-brown variety of the American black bear
  • cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
  • circumagitate — (transitive) To agitate on all sides.
  • circumambages — round-about methods
  • circumambient — surrounding
  • circumjacency — the state of being circumjacent
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • circumstances — someone's financial situation
  • circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
  • circumvallate — to surround with a defensive fortification
  • city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
  • ciudad madero — city in Tamaulipas state, EC Mexico: suburb of Tampico: pop. 160,000
  • claiming race — a race in which each owner declares beforehand the price at which his or her horse will be offered for sale after the race
  • claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
  • clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
  • claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
  • clearing mark — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
  • cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
  • clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
  • close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
  • clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
  • cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  • coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
  • coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
  • cochleariform — having a spoon shape
  • cockney bream — a young snapper fish
  • coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
  • colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
  • colour camera — a camera that takes colour photographs
  • come a stumer — to crash financially
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
  • commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
  • commandership — a person who commands.
  • commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
  • commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
  • commemoration — the act or an instance of commemorating
  • commemorative — A commemorative object or event is intended to make people remember a particular event or person.
  • commemoratory — commemorative (def 1).
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
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