16-letter words containing c, o, e, n, a, m
- cameo appearance — a single and often brief dramatic scene played by a well-known actor or actress in a film or television play
- canada mayflower — a small wildflower (Maianthemum canadense) of the lily family, with white flowers and red, beadlike berries, found in the N U.S. and in Canada; bead-ruby
- canadian hemlock — eastern hemlock.
- capital movement — the payments that flow between countries
- capsizing moment — the moment of an upsetting couple.
- carnot's theorem — the principle that no engine operating between two given temperatures can be more efficient than a Carnot engine operating between the same temperatures.
- chance one's arm — to attempt to do something although the chance of success may be slight
- chemical weapons — toxic chemicals used as weapons
- chinese cinnamon — cassia (def 1).
- chlorinated lime — bleaching powder.
- chlorpheniramine — an antihistaminic compound, C 20 H 23 ClN 2 O 4 , used in treating the symptoms of allergies.
- cholera infantum — an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.
- chromatic number — (mathematics) The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
- clearance volume — The clearance volume is the volume remaining above the piston of an engine when it reaches top dead center.
- clermont-ferrand — a city in S central France: capital of Puy-de-Dôme department; industrial centre. Pop: 140 957 (2011)
- closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
- co-determination — a system of industrial management in which workers share responsibility for the operation of a company, as through elected representation on a corporate supervisory board
- cochlear implant — a device that stimulates the acoustic nerve in the inner ear in order to produce some form of hearing in people who are deaf from inner ear disease
- coital exanthema — a common venereal disease affecting horses and cattle, caused by a virus and characterized by the appearance of pustules on the mucous membranes of the genital organs and neighboring skin.
- column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
- come and get it! — the meal is ready!
- come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
- command guidance — a method of controlling a missile during flight by transmitting information to it
- command language — the language used to access a computer system
- commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
- commensurateness — The state or quality of being commensurate.
- commission agent — a person who sells goods and services for a fee
- common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
- common-or-garden — You can use common-or-garden to describe something you think is ordinary and not special in any way.
- commonplace book — a notebook in which quotations, poems, remarks, etc, that catch the owner's attention are entered
- commonsensically — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
- 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
- communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
- 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
- commutation-test — the act of substituting one thing for another; substitution; exchange.
- companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
- companion volume — a book that complements another on a related subject, usually by the same author
- company of jesus — former name of the Society of Jesus.
- 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.
- complex analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with analytic functions of a complex variable.
- complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
- 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.
- compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
- 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.
- conical pendulum — a clock pendulum oscillating in a circle rather than in a straight line.
- consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad