14-letter words containing c, e, r, i, m
- commemorations — Plural form of commemoration.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- commentatorial — relating to commentators or the creation of commentaries
- commercial art — graphic art for commercial uses such as advertising, packaging, etc
- commercial law — business law
- commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commercialises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commercialise.
- commercialized — spoiled by commercial exploitation; degraded
- commercializer — to emphasize the profitable aspects of, especially at the expense of quality: to commercialize one's artistic talent.
- commercializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commercialize.
- commiserations — Plural form of commiseration.
- commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
- common carrier — a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers
- common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
- community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
- 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
- complexometric — as in complexometric indicator, an ionochromic dye that undergoes a definite colour change in presence of specific metal ions
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- comprehensions — Plural form of comprehension.
- comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
- compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
- computer crime — crime perpetrated on or requiring the use of computers
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- contemperation — the act of contempering
- contemporaries — 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.
- contemporarily — 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.
- contemporising — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- cookie monster — (recreation) (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
- copolymerizing — Present participle of copolymerize.
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- cornelis tromp — Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
- cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.