12-letter words containing c, r, y, m, o
- commendatory — serving to commend; expressing praise or approval
- commercially — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- compressedly — in a compressed manner
- compulsatory — compulsory
- compulsorily — required; mandatory; obligatory: compulsory education.
- condemnatory — Condemnatory means expressing strong disapproval.
- confirmatory — confirming or tending to confirm
- conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
- conformingly — In a way that conforms.
- consummatory — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- contemporary — Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.
- coomaraswamy — Ananda (Kentish). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West
- copolymerise — Alt form copolymerize.
- copolymerize — to react (two compounds) together to produce a copolymer
- cotemporally — At the same time.
- country mile — a long way
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- coxey's army — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
- cruciformity — being in the shape of a cross; cross-shaped.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- cryptonymous — having a code name or secret name
- cryptorchism — failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.
- cryptosystem — a system for encoding and decoding secret messages.
- crystal form — a symmetrical set of planes in space, associated with a crystal, having the same symmetry as the crystal class
- cumbersomely — In a cumbersome way.
- curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- currycombing — Present participle of currycomb.
- cyber monday — the Monday after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest online shopping days.
- cyber mosque — a website dealing with Islamic religious matters
- cylindriform — having the form or shape of a cylinder
- cymotrichous — having wavy hair
- cytomembrane — a membrane around a cell that encloses cytoplasm and acts as a semi-permeable barrier
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- emancipatory — Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
- erythromycin — An antibiotic used in the treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. It is similar in its effects to penicillin.
- factory farm — a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
- family court — court of domestic relations.
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- fire company — a company of firefighters.
- fm cyclotron — a type of cyclotron that synchronizes its accelerating voltage with particle velocity in order to compensate for the relativistic mass increase of the particle as it approaches the speed of light.