0%

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

  • chromospheres — Plural form of chromosphere.
  • chromospheric — Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
  • chromotherapy — the use of colour and light as a restorative therapy and to promote mental and physical well-being
  • churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
  • ciceronianism — imitation of the style of Cicero, especially as practiced by some writers and orators during the Renaissance.
  • cinema goers' — filmgoer.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • cinnamon bear — a reddish-brown variety of the American black bear
  • cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
  • circumcisions — Plural form of circumcision.
  • circumduction — the action of turning anything on its axis
  • circumductory — relating to circumduction
  • circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
  • circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
  • circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
  • circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
  • citation form — the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as when cited for purposes of illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech.
  • ciudad madero — city in Tamaulipas state, EC Mexico: suburb of Tampico: pop. 160,000
  • clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
  • claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
  • climatography — an account of a region's climate
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
  • close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
  • clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
  • cloud chamber — an apparatus for detecting high-energy particles by observing their tracks through a chamber containing a supersaturated vapour. Each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track
  • coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
  • coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
  • cochleariform — having a spoon shape
  • cockney bream — a young snapper fish
  • coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
  • colomb-bechar — former name of Béchar.
  • colour camera — a camera that takes colour photographs
  • colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
  • columelliform — like a columella.
  • column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
  • combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
  • combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
  • combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
  • come a stumer — to crash financially
  • come to grief — If something comes to grief, it fails. If someone comes to grief, they fail in something they are doing, and may be hurt.
  • come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • come to terms — to reach acceptance or agreement
  • come up roses — If you say that everything is coming up roses for someone, you mean that everything is going well for them.
  • come up short — disappoint
  • comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?