13-letter words containing c, i, m, n
- chairmanships — Plural form of chairmanship.
- chameleonlike — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
- championships — Plural form of championship.
- changing room — A changing room is a room where you can change your clothes and usually have a shower, for example at a sports centre.
- chapman stick — an electronically amplified musical instrument with ten or twelve strings and a fretted neck, which is played by striking the strings against the frets with the fingers
- chastisements — severe criticism; a rebuke or strong reprimand.
- check-in time — The check-in time at a hotel is the time from which guests are expected to arrive.
- checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
- cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
- chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
- chemin de fer — a gambling game, a variation of baccarat
- chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
- chime in with — If one thing chimes in with another thing or chimes with it, the two things are similar or consistent with each other.
- chimney piece — mantelpiece
- chimney place — an open hearth.
- chimney stack — A chimney stack is the brick or stone part of a chimney that is above the roof of a building.
- chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
- chimney swift — a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
- chimney wheel — smokejack.
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
- chimneypieces — Plural form of chimneypiece.
- chinese money — funny money (def 3).
- chiromantical — Of or pertaining to chiromancy.
- chlormerodrin — a white, bitter, odorless powder, ClHgN 2 H 11 O 2 , soluble in methanol and ethanol and slightly soluble in water, used in medicine as a diuretic.
- chloroforming — Present participle of chloroform.
- chloromycetin — chloramphenicol
- cholangiogram — an X-ray of the bile duct performed after administering dye into the ducts that shows up on the X-ray
- chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
- chromoprotein — any of a group of conjugated proteins, such as haemoglobin, in which the protein is joined to a coloured compound, such as a metal-containing porphyrin
- churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- chymification — the process of turning into chyme
- ciceronianism — imitation of the style of Cicero, especially as practiced by some writers and orators during the Renaissance.
- cinco de mayo — May 5, anniversary of the victory of Mexico over French forces at Puebla in 1862: observed by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
- cinema goers' — filmgoer.
- cinema verite — films characterized by subjects, actions, etc, that have the appearance of real life
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- cinematically — Chiefly British. motion picture.
- cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
- cinnamic acid — a white crystalline water-insoluble weak organic acid existing in two isomeric forms; 3-phenylpropenoic acid. The trans- form occurs naturally and its esters are used in perfumery. Formula: C6H5CH:CHCOOH
- 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
- cinnamon teal — a small, freshwater, wild duck, Anas cyanoptera, of North and South America, having chiefly cinnamon-red plumage.
- circumambient — surrounding
- circumcisions — Plural form of circumcision.
- circumduction — the action of turning anything on its axis
- circumference — The circumference of a circle, place, or round object is the distance around its edge.
- circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
- circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
- circumjacency — the state of being circumjacent