14-letter words containing c, o, n, t, a, m
- electromotance — an electromotive force
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- endarterectomy — Surgical removal of part of the inner lining of an artery, together with any obstructive deposits, most often carried out on the carotid artery or on vessels supplying the legs.
- ethnomedicinal — Pertaining to ethnomedicine.
- exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
- excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
- excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
- fort mcclellan — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Alabama, NE of Anniston.
- friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
- gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
- gamma-carotene — one of the forms of the pigment carotene
- ganglionectomy — the excision of a ganglion.
- geometric mean — the mean of n positive numbers obtained by taking the n th root of the product of the numbers: The geometric mean of 6 and 24 is 12.
- gonadectomized — Having undergone gonadectomy.
- have it coming — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- heteroromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the opposite gender.
- holy sacrament — sacrament (def 2).
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humidification — to make humid.
- hydromagnetics — magnetohydrodynamics.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- image orthicon — a camera tube, more sensitive than the orthicon, in which an electron image generated by a photocathode is focused on one side of a target that is scanned on its other side by a beam of low-velocity electrons to produce the output signal.
- immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
- immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
- income account — an account maintained for a particular item of revenue or income.
- income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- incrementation — The act or process of incrementing.
- interactionism — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
- intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
- intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- kleptomaniacal — Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
- laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
- legal document — a document concerning a legal matter; a document drawn up by a lawyer
- levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- long-term care — continuing help and attention
- macadamization — to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.