15-letter words containing c, i, m, o
- cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
- cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
- cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
- circumambagious — in a round-about manner
- circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
- circumincession — the reciprocal existence within the three members of the Trinity
- circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
- circumlocutious — Circumlocutional.
- circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
- circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
- circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
- circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
- city councilman — a member of a city council
- cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
- climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
- climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
- close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
- cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
- cmu common lisp — (language) (CMU CL) A public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming environment. Many of the X3J13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. The new CMU CL compiler is called Python. Version 17c includes an incremental compiler, profiler, run-time support, documentation, an editor and a debugger. It runs under Mach on SPARC, MIPS and IBM PC RT and under SunOS on SPARC. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- coast mountains — a mountain range in Canada, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Waddington, 4043 m (13 266 ft)
- coconut matting — a form of coarse matting made from the fibrous husk of the coconut
- codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
- coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
- collective farm — (chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
- collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
- colonial animal — compound animal
- combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
- combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
- combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
- combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
- come to nothing — plan, idea: fail
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- come up for air — rise to water's surface
- come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
- comfort station — a public lavatory and rest room
- coming bet ween — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
- commercial code — a telegraphic code designed to convey a message with a minimum number of words and thereby reduce toll costs.
- commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
- commercializing — Present participle of commercialize.
- commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
- commission plan — (in the US) a system of municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in a commission of five or six elected members
- commissionaires — Plural form of commissionaire.
- commissionnaire — Alternative form of commissionaire.
- commit to paper — to write down; record
- committal order — the document that commits someone to prison
- committee stage — (in British parliamentary procedure) the detailed examination by MPs of proposed legislation
- committeeperson — a member of a committee.