11-letter words containing e, n, m
- consummates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of consummate.
- consumptive — A consumptive person suffers from tuberculosis.
- containment — Containment is the action or policy of keeping another country's power or area of control within acceptable limits or boundaries.
- contaminate — If something is contaminated by dirt, chemicals, or radiation, they make it dirty or harmful.
- contemplant — absorbed in contemplation
- contemplate — If you contemplate an action, you think about whether to do it or not.
- contenement — a holding or a property that must be held by a freeman in order to maintain his station
- contentment — Contentment is a feeling of quiet happiness and satisfaction.
- conterminal — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- contretemps — A contretemps is a small disagreement that is rather embarrassing.
- controlment — power to direct or determine
- contumelies — Plural form of contumely.
- copernicium — a highly radioactive element that is produced synthetically. Symbol: Cn; atomic no: 112; atomic wt: 285
- corrigendum — an error to be corrected
- cosmetician — a person who makes, sells, or applies cosmetics
- cosmogonies — Plural form of cosmogony.
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
- countermark — a mark on an object that is additional to a mark already on that object, and that serves a purpose such as enhancing security, or noting a change in the value of that object, etc
- countermemo — a memorandum responding to another memorandum
- countermine — a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by an enemy
- countermove — A countermove is an action that someone takes in response to an action by another person or group.
- countermure — a wall positioned behind, or before, another wall and hence providing extra defence
- countermyth — a myth that conflicts with another myth
- counterterm — Antithesis.
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- county home — a county poorhouse.
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
- craniometer — an instrument for measuring the cranium or skull
- craniometry — the study and measurement of skulls
- creationism — Creationism is the belief that the account of the creation of the universe in the Bible is true, and that the theory of evolution is incorrect.
- crime scene — A crime scene is a place that is being investigated by the police because a crime has taken place there.
- crimean war — the war fought mainly in the Crimea between Russia on one side and Turkey, France, Sardinia, and Britain on the other (1853-56)
- criminalese — the jargon of criminals
- criminalise — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of criminalize.
- criminalize — If a government criminalizes an action or person, it officially declares that the action or the person's behaviour is illegal.
- criminative — involving crimination; accusatory.
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
- crumbliness — The state of being crumbly.
- crunch time — the critical moment
- culminative — (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.
- cumbernauld — a town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire, northeast of Glasgow: developed as a new town since 1956. Pop: 49 664 (2001)
- cummerbunds — Plural form of cummerbund.
- curmudgeons — Plural form of curmudgeon.
- curtailment — The curtailment of something is the act of reducing or limiting it.
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders