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15-letter words containing i, m, u, n

  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
  • common multiple — an integer or polynomial that is a multiple of each integer or polynomial in a group
  • communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
  • communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • communicational — relating to or characterized by communication
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • communion cloth — corporal3 .
  • communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
  • communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
  • communist china — China, People's Republic of.
  • communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
  • communistically — In a communistic manner.
  • community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
  • compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
  • compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
  • compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
  • computationally — from a computational point of view
  • computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
  • computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
  • computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
  • computerization — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
  • conductiometric — conductometric
  • constructionism — an educational theory holding that children learn most effectively when actively doing, or constructing, things, rather than being taught information in a traditional schooling method
  • consulting room — A doctor's or therapist's consulting room is the room in which they see their patients.
  • consumer choice — the range of competing products and services from which a consumer can choose
  • consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
  • consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
  • consumption tax — a tax, as a sales tax, levied on consumer goods or services at the time of sale.
  • continuous-form — of or relating to paper, blank forms, checks, etc., supplied in a folded stack or roll to a device, as a computer printer, generally with perforations between sheets for later separation and often with detachable punched edges used to advance the sheets through the device.
  • contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • coumarone resin — any of the group of thermosetting resins derived by the polymerization of mixtures of coumarone and indene: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints, varnishes, and printing inks.
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
  • countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
  • counterclaimant — a claim made to offset another claim, especially one made by the defendant in a legal action.
  • counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
  • countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
  • counting number — natural number
  • country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
  • courting mirror — a small mirror of c1800 having a border and cresting of glass painted with leaves and flowers in imitation of a Chinese style.
  • crinkum-crankum — a fanciful name for any object that is full of twists and turns
  • cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
  • croque-monsieur — a sandwich filled with ham and cheese, either dipped in egg batter or buttered on the outside, and toasted or grilled
  • cuisine minceur — a style of cooking, originating in France, that limits the use of starch, sugar, butter, and cream traditionally used in French cookery
  • culture jamming — a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc
  • cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally
  • current limiter — a device, as a resistor or fuse, that limits the flow of current to a prescribed amount, independent of the voltage applied.
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
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