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14-letter words containing e, m, c

  • concertmasters — Plural form of concertmaster.
  • concrete mixer — a device used for mixing cement, sand, gravel, or other substances to make concrete; it has a rotating drum in which the concrete is mixed
  • concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
  • condemned cell — A condemned cell is a prison cell for someone who is going to be executed.
  • condensed milk — Condensed milk is very thick sweetened milk that is sold in cans.
  • conductometric — relating to the measurement of conductivity
  • confidence man — A confidence man is a man who persuades people to give him their money or property by lying to them.
  • conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
  • conglomerating — Present participle of conglomerate.
  • conglomeration — A conglomeration of things is a group of many different things, gathered together.
  • conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
  • congressmember — a member of a congress, especially of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • conservativism — Alternative form of conservatism.
  • consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
  • consumer group — an organization that campaigns for the rights of consumers
  • contact cement — an adhesive that sets when the surfaces it is applied to are brought in contact with each other
  • contact number — a person's telephone number
  • contemperation — the act of contempering
  • contemperature — the action of mixing together harmoniously or proportionately
  • contemplatable — That can be contemplated.
  • contemplations — Plural form of contemplation.
  • contemplatives — Plural form of contemplative.
  • contemporanean — contemporary
  • contemporaries — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • contemporarily — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • contemporising — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
  • contemptuously — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
  • conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
  • continentalism — an attitude, expression, etc., characteristic of a continent, especially of Europe.
  • control system — a system that senses, switches, or regulates another system
  • contumeliously — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
  • cookie monster — (recreation)   (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
  • cooling system — a system which cools something such as a building or engine
  • copolymerizing — Present participle of copolymerize.
  • coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
  • cornelis tromp — Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
  • cosmeceuticals — Plural form of cosmeceutical.
  • cosmetological — the art or profession of applying cosmetics.
  • cosmetologists — Plural form of cosmetologist.
  • cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
  • costume change — a change of costume by an actor
  • cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
  • cough medicine — Cough medicine is liquid medicine that you take when you have a cough.
  • counter jumper — a sales assistant in a shop
  • counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
  • counter-gambit — a countermove
  • countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • countereconomy — an economy operating simultaneously with or in opposition to the established economic system.
  • counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
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