13-letter words containing e, n, m
- call sb names — If someone calls you names, they insult you by saying unpleasant things to you or about you.
- camerapersons — Plural form of cameraperson.
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- candid camera — a small camera that may be used to take informal photographs of people, usually without their knowledge
- canton enamel — Chinese enamelware similar to Limoges.
- carbamazepine — an anticonvulsant drug used in the management of epilepsy
- carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
- carpetmuncher — Alternative form of carpet muncher.
- casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- catecholamine — any of a group of hormones that are catechol derivatives, esp adrenaline and noradrenaline
- catechumenate — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
- caution money — a sum of money deposited as security for good conduct, against possible debts, etc
- cell membrane — a very thin membrane, composed of lipids and protein, that surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell and controls the passage of substances into and out of the cell
- cement slurry — Cement slurry is a mixture of Portland cement, water, and additives.
- centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
- ceremonialism — A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism.
- ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
- cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
- cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
- chain measure — measurement of distance using a chain 66 feet (20 meters) long, of which one link equals 7.9 inches (20.1 cm).
- chamber organ — a small compact organ used esp for the authentic performance of preclassical music
- chameleonlike — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
- chance-medley — a sudden quarrel in which one party kills another; unintentional but not blameless killing
- chastisements — severe criticism; a rebuke or strong reprimand.
- check-in time — The check-in time at a hotel is the time from which guests are expected to arrive.
- checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
- cheesemongers — Plural form of cheesemonger.
- cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
- chemical bond — a mutual attraction between two atoms resulting from a redistribution of their outer electrons
- chemin de fer — a gambling game, a variation of baccarat
- chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
- chemotaxonomy — the taxonomy of species of organisms based on biochemical characteristics
- chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
- chime in with — If one thing chimes in with another thing or chimes with it, the two things are similar or consistent with each other.
- chimney piece — mantelpiece
- chimney place — an open hearth.
- chimney stack — A chimney stack is the brick or stone part of a chimney that is above the roof of a building.
- chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
- chimney swift — a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
- chimney wheel — smokejack.
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
- chimneypieces — Plural form of chimneypiece.
- chinese money — funny money (def 3).
- chlormerodrin — a white, bitter, odorless powder, ClHgN 2 H 11 O 2 , soluble in methanol and ethanol and slightly soluble in water, used in medicine as a diuretic.
- chloromethane — methyl chloride.