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14-letter words containing c, t, e, r, m

  • hysterectomies — Plural form of hysterectomy.
  • hysterectomise — Alt form hysterectomize.
  • hysterectomize — to remove the uterus from by surgery.
  • iatrochemistry — (in the 16th and 17th centuries) the study of chemistry in relation to the physiology, pathology, and treatment of disease.
  • ice-cream suit — a man's lightweight summer suit of white or a finely striped or solid pastel color.
  • 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.
  • impact printer — (printer)   The earlier, noisier kind of printer where part of the mechanism comes into contact with the paper. The term would only be only used in contrast to "non-impact printer". Examples include line printer, daisy wheel printer, golf ball printer, dot matrix printer, Braille printer.
  • import licence — a government-issued document that authorizes the importation of goods into its country
  • improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
  • income bracket — a group or category of people whose income falls within defined upper and lower levels
  • income support — welfare payment to low earners
  • incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
  • incrementalism — a policy of making changes, especially social changes, by degrees; gradualism.
  • incrementalist — a policy of making changes, especially social changes, by degrees; gradualism.
  • incrementation — The act or process of incrementing.
  • indiscriminate — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
  • instant camera — a usually portable camera that produces a finished picture shortly after each exposure. Compare Polaroid (def 2).
  • inter-american — of or relating to some or all of the countries of North, Central, and South America.
  • inter-epidemic — Also, epidemical. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
  • interactionism — a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
  • intercommunion — mutual communion, association, or relations.
  • intercommunity — common ownership, use, participation, etc.
  • intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • interracialism — action or policy for establishing equality and cooperation between different racial groups.
  • intramercurial — within Mercury's orbit
  • intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
  • inverted comma — quotation mark.
  • isodiametrical — isodiametric
  • isometric-line — isometrics, isometric exercise (def 1).
  • john c fremont — John Charles, 1813–90, U.S. general and explorer: first Republican presidential candidate, 1856.
  • jump the track — to go suddenly off the rails
  • kelyphitic rim — a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock, formed by reaction of the interned mineral with the surrounding rock
  • kinematic pair — pair1 (def 10).
  • lachrymatories — Plural form of lachrymatory.
  • laryngectomies — Plural form of laryngectomy.
  • latin american — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
  • lethal chamber — a room or enclosure where animals may be killed by exposure to a poison gas.
  • levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
  • little america — a base in the Antarctic, on the Bay of Whales, S of the Ross Sea: established by Adm. Richard E. Byrd of the U.S. Navy in 1929; used for later Antarctic expeditions.
  • logic emulator — A system of FPGAs, programmable interconnect and software which automatically configures itself into an operating prototype of a large-scale logic design, such as a microprocessor. An emulated design can be connected into the target system and really operated and tested before the design is made into an integrated circuit.
  • long-term care — continuing help and attention
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
  • macroaggregate — A relatively large aggregated particle.
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • macromarketing — marketing concerning all marketing as a whole, marketing systems, and the mutual effect that society and marketing systems have on each other
  • macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
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