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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.
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