13-letter words containing e, c, o, m
- croquembouche — a French dessert consisting of a cone-shaped mound of small cream puffs glazed with caramelized sugar
- cross-examine — When a lawyer cross-examines someone during a trial or hearing, he or she questions them about the evidence that they have already given.
- crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
- cryptoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- cucumber root — Indian cucumber root.
- culloden moor — a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
- cummingtonite — an amphibole mineral, magnesium iron silicate hydroxide, found in metamorphic rocks
- customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- customer care — the work of looking after customers and ensuring their satisfaction with one's business and its goods or services
- customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- cycloheximide — a toxic antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis, used as a fungicide in agriculture
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- cymbocephalic — scaphocephaly.
- cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
- dactylomegaly — abnormal enlargement of the fingers or toes.
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- damson cheese — thick damson jam
- dance company — a group of dancers, usually including business and technical personnel
- decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
- decelerometer — an instrument for measuring deceleration
- decimal point — A decimal point is the dot in front of a decimal fraction.
- decision time — a time at which an important decision must be taken
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- decommissions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decommission.
- decommunizing — Present participle of decommunize.
- decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
- decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decompilation — The act, or the result of decompiling.
- decomposition — Decomposition is the process of decay that takes place when a living thing changes chemically after dying.
- decompounding — Present participle of decompound.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
- decontaminate — To decontaminate something means to remove all germs or dangerous substances from it.
- deflectometer — An instrument that measures the deflection of structures when loads are applied.
- demagogically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a demagogue.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- democratizing — Present participle of democratize.
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- demonological — the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
- denouncements — Plural form of denouncement.
- densitometric — Of or pertaining to densitometry.
- dermatotropic — (especially of viruses) in, attracted toward, or affecting the skin.
- deromanticize — to remove the romantic, ideal, or heroic aura from.
- deuteromycete — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- deutocerebrum — (zoology) The median lobes of the brain of an insect.
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- diffeomorphic — (mathematics) Having a diffeomorphism.