14-letter words containing i, l, u, m
- caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
- cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
- chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
- christmas club — a savings account in a bank in which regular deposits are made, usually throughout one year, as to provide funds for Christmas shopping.
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- ciliary muscle — the smooth muscle in the ciliary body, the action of which affects the accommodation of the eye.
- circumambulate — to walk around (something)
- circumcolumnar — surrounding a column.
- circumgalactic — (astronomy) Surrounding a galaxy.
- circumlittoral — adjoining the shore
- circumlocution — A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.
- circumlocutory — a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
- circumscissile — (of the dry dehiscent fruits of certain plants) opening completely by a transverse split
- circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
- circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- circumvolution — the act of turning, winding, or folding around a central axis
- clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
- cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
- colloquialisms — Plural form of colloquialism.
- columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
- combustibility — capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.
- come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
- comma bacillus — a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio comma, that causes cholera in man: family Spirillaceae
- common council — the local legislative body of a municipal government.
- communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
- community life — the life and activities of a community
- compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
- computerizable — able to be computerized
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- contractualism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
- contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
- contumeliously — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
- corpuscularism — (philosophy) Ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
- cosmeceuticals — Plural form of cosmeceutical.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
- cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
- 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.
- culture medium — a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
- denumerability — the quality of being countable
- diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
- diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.