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14-letter words containing c, o, m, r

  • countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
  • counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
  • coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
  • court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
  • covered market — an indoor market
  • cream-coloured — cream in colour
  • creme de cacao — a sweet liqueur with a chocolate flavour
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • crepe marocain — a crepe fabric made of silk, wool, or rayon, or a combination of these fibers, and distinguished by a strong rib effect, used in the manufacture of dresses and women's suits; a heavy Canton crepe.
  • crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • criminological — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
  • criminologists — Plural form of criminologist.
  • crimson clover — an annual clover (Trifolium incarnatum) with elongated heads of deep-red flowers, often grown in the S U.S. as a cover or green-manure crop
  • cro-magnon man — an early type of modern man, Homo sapiens, who lived in Europe during late Palaeolithic times, having tall stature, long head, and a relatively large cranial capacity
  • croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
  • croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
  • cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
  • cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
  • cross-compiler — a compiler able to create executable code for a platform different from the one the compiler is run on
  • cross-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.
  • cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
  • cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
  • cross-platform — (software, hardware)   A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
  • crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
  • crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • cryptorchidism — a congenital condition in which one or both testicles fail to descend into the scrotum
  • crystallomancy — a form of divination using crystals or a crystal ball
  • cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
  • currant tomato — a Peruvian plant, Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium, of the nightshade family, having numerous bell-shaped, yellow flowers and small, currantlike, red fruit.
  • customer's man — registered representative.
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
  • cyberdemocracy — Democracy as facilitated by the Internet or cyberspace.
  • cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
  • cytophotometer — an instrument for examining cells by determining the intensity or wavelengths of light transmitted through them.
  • cytophotometry — the use of a photometer in order to study the chemical compounds of a cell
  • damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
  • decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
  • decommissioner — a person who decommissions a ship, nuclear reactor, etc
  • decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
  • decrementation — The act or process of decrementing.
  • democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
  • dermatographic — relating to dermatography
  • dermatological — the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases.
  • dermatomycoses — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
  • dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
  • deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
  • diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
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