14-letter words containing e, m, u, s
- campanulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Campanulaceae, a family of temperate and subtropical plants, including the campanulas, having bell-shaped nodding flowers
- cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
- catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
- censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
- charles sumner — Charles, 1811–74, U.S. statesman.
- chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
- chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
- cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- chrysanthemums — Plural form of chrysanthemum.
- ciliary muscle — the smooth muscle in the ciliary body, the action of which affects the accommodation of the eye.
- circumbendibus — a circumlocution
- circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
- circumscissile — (of the dry dehiscent fruits of certain plants) opening completely by a transverse split
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- circumspective — given to or marked by circumspection; watchful; cautious: His behavior was circumspective.
- cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
- commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- commodiousness — The state or quality of being commodious.
- common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
- communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
- compass course — the direction of a ship's course based on its compass
- compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
- compute server — (computer, parallel) A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
- computer virus — virus
- concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
- 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
- contemptuously — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- contumeliously — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
- cosmeceuticals — Plural form of cosmeceutical.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cruise missile — A cruise missile is a missile which carries a nuclear warhead and which is guided by a computer.
- crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- customer's man — registered representative.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- demerara sugar — Demerara sugar is a type of brown sugar. It is made from sugar cane that is grown in the West Indies.