15-letter words containing c, u, m
- circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
- circumlocutious — Circumlocutional.
- circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
- circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
- circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
- circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
- circumscriptive — That circumscribes or outlines.
- circumspectness — the quality of being circumspect
- circumstantials — incidentals; details
- circumstantiate — to support by giving particulars
- circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
- circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
- circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
- citrus red mite — a large mite, Panonychus citri, that is an important pest of citrus.
- city councilman — a member of a city council
- claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
- classical music — a style of music composed, esp at Vienna, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This period is marked by the establishment, esp by Haydn and Mozart, of sonata form
- cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
- close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
- cloud computing — Cloud computing is a model of computer use in which services that are available on the Internet are provided to users on a temporary basis.
- clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
- cmu common lisp — (language) (CMU CL) A public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming environment. Many of the X3J13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. The new CMU CL compiler is called Python. Version 17c includes an incremental compiler, profiler, run-time support, documentation, an editor and a debugger. It runs under Mach on SPARC, MIPS and IBM PC RT and under SunOS on SPARC. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- coast mountains — a mountain range in Canada, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Waddington, 4043 m (13 266 ft)
- coconut matting — a form of coarse matting made from the fibrous husk of the coconut
- collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
- combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- combat trousers — Combat trousers are large, loose trousers with lots of pockets.
- combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
- combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
- come out on top — If a person, organization, or country comes out on top, they are more successful than the others that they have been competing with.
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- come up for air — rise to water's surface
- come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
- comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
- common currency — If you say that an idea or belief has become common currency, you mean it is widely used and accepted.
- common multiple — an integer or polynomial that is a multiple of each integer or polynomial in a group
- common shelduck — a large, brightly coloured gooselike duck of the Old World, Tadorna tadorna
- communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
- communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- communicational — relating to or characterized by communication
- communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- communion cloth — corporal3 .
- communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
- communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
- communist china — China, People's Republic of.
- communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
- communistically — In a communistic manner.
- community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities