14-letter words containing c, r, a, m
- beach umbrella — a large umbrella used as a sunshade on the beach
- beach wormwood — a composite plant, Artemisia stellerana, having yellow flowers and deeply lobed leaves covered with dense white fuzz.
- bermuda collar — a narrow, pointed collar on a woman's dress or blouse
- bermuda cutter — a marconi-rigged cutter.
- beyond compare — If you describe something as beyond compare, you mean that it is extremely good or extremely great.
- bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
- black mulberry — a small deciduous tree, Morus nigra, with small leaves, producing edible fruit
- board chairman — the chairman of the board of a company, etc
- bomber command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to tactical and strategic bombing, esp during WWII
- boring machine — a machine that bores holes, tunnels, etc
- branch manager — a person who manages the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
- broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
- broom cupboard — a small cupboard or closet for storing brooms, mops, etc
- bubble chamber — a device that enables the tracks of ionizing particles to be photographed as a row of bubbles in a superheated liquid. Immediately before the particles enter the chamber the pressure is reduced so that the ionized particles act as centres for small vapour bubbles
- cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
- cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
- cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
- calamine brass — an alloy of zinc carbonate and copper, formerly used to imitate gold.
- calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
- caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
- cambridge blue — a lightish blue colour
- cambridge lisp — A flavour of Lisp using BCPL. Sources owned by Fitznorman partners.
- cambridgeshire — a county of E England, in East Anglia: includes the former counties of the Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and lies largely in the Fens: Peterborough became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Cambridge. Pop (excluding Peterborough): 571 000 (2003 est). Area (excluding Peterborough): 3068 sq km (184 sq miles)
- camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
- camera obscura — a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture
- camillo cavour — Camillo Benso di [kah-meel-law ben-saw dee] /kɑˈmil lɔ ˈbɛn sɔ di/ (Show IPA), 1810–61, Italian statesman: leader in the unification of Italy.
- camp counselor — activities supervisor
- camp fire girl — a girl who is a member of Camp Fire, Inc., an organization for girls founded in 1910, and since 1975 also including boys, to promote character-building activities
- campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
- camphor laurel — an Australian name for the camphor tree, now occurring in the wild in parts of Australia
- camphoric acid — a whitish crystallizable substance derived from the oxidization of camphor, used in solution in medicine as an antiseptic. Formula: C10H16O4
- campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
- campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
- campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
- capital market — the financial institutions collectively that deal with medium-term and long-term capital and loans
- caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
- captive market — a group of consumers who are obliged through lack of choice to buy a particular product, thus giving the supplier a monopoly
- caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
- caramelization — the conversion of sugar into caramel, caused by heating
- carcinomatosis — a condition characterized by widespread dissemination of carcinomas or by a carcinoma that affects a large area
- carcinosarcoma — a malignant tumour composed of carcinoma and sarcoma
- cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
- cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
- careers master — a male teacher who gives pupils advice and information about careers
- carpenter moth — any of various large moths of the family Cossidae, the larvae of which bore beneath and cause damage to tree bark
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- carpet muncher — lesbian
- carrara marble — a white or blue-gray marble quarried at Carrara, Italy.
- case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
- castrametation — the art of designing and laying out an encampment