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15-letter words containing m, a, c, e

  • conventionalism — advocacy of or conformity to that which is established
  • conventual mass — the Mass celebrated daily in a convent church for all members of the conventual community.
  • conversationism — a colloquialism
  • cooley's anemia — a form of thalassemia characterized by severe anemia, growth retardation, etc. and usually resulting in death at an early age: the genes causing this condition are inherited from both parents
  • copying machine — a machine that makes copies of original documents, especially by xerography.
  • coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
  • corporate image — the way an organization is presented to or perceived by its members and the public
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • cosmopolitanize — to make cosmopolitan.
  • costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
  • cottonseed meal — the residue of cottonseed kernels from which oil has been extracted, used as fodder or fertilizer
  • coulometrically — in a coulometric manner
  • 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
  • counter-measure — A counter-measure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
  • counterargument — A counterargument is an argument that makes an opposing point to another argument.
  • 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.
  • counterexamples — Plural form of counterexample.
  • countermandable — able to be countermanded
  • countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
  • countermeasures — Plural form of countermeasure.
  • cranborne money — (in Britain) the annual payment made to Opposition parties in the House of Lords to help them pay for certain services necessary to the carrying out of their parliamentary duties; established in 1996
  • crash programme — a short intensive programme to learn a skill, language, etc
  • cream of tartar — Cream of tartar is a white powder used in baking.
  • cream-crackered — exhausted
  • creme de cassis — a sweet, purplish-red liqueur flavored with black currants
  • creme de fraise — a liqueur flavored principally with strawberries.
  • criminal damage — intentionally damaging property that belongs to someone else, including public property
  • criminal lawyer — a lawyer who deals with criminal rather than civil cases
  • criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
  • crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
  • critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
  • cross assembler — an assembler that runs on a computer other than the one for which it assembles programs
  • cross-assembler — An assembler which runs on one type of processor and produces machine code for another. There is a set of 6502, 68xx and Zilog Z80 and 8085 cross-assemblers in C by <[email protected]> and Alan R. Baldwin. They run under MS-DOS and could be compiled to run under Unix and on the Amiga and Atari ST. See also fas.
  • cucumber mosaic — a viral disease of cucumbers and many other plants, characterized by a mosaic pattern and distortion of leaves and fruits.
  • 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
  • curia rhaetorum — a city in E Switzerland, capital of Graubünden canton. Pop: 32 989 (2000)
  • currency market — a market in which banks and traders purchase and sell foreign currencies
  • customer appeal — attractiveness to customers
  • customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
  • cut the mustard — to come up to expectations
  • cyclohexylamine — a highly toxic and hazardous organic chemical derived from cyclohexane
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • dairy ice cream — ice cream made from milk rather than artificial ingredients
  • decision-making — the act or process of making decisions
  • deck department — the part of a ship's crew, from the captain down, concerned with running the ship but not with heavy machinery or catering
  • decommunization — the act or process of decommunizing
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