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14-letter words containing m, a, c, r, o

  • co-trimoxazole — an antibiotic consisting of a mixture of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole (a sulfa drug): used esp to treat infections of the urinary tract and lungs (as in AIDS)
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
  • 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.
  • coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
  • combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
  • come a cropper — If you say that someone has come a cropper, you mean that they have had an unexpected and embarrassing failure.
  • come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
  • commemorations — Plural form of commemoration.
  • commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commentary box — the place where the commentators on a sporting event sit
  • commentatorial — relating to commentators or the creation of commentaries
  • commercial art — graphic art for commercial uses such as advertising, packaging, etc
  • commercial law — business law
  • commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
  • commercialises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commercialise.
  • commercialized — spoiled by commercial exploitation; degraded
  • commercializer — to emphasize the profitable aspects of, especially at the expense of quality: to commercialize one's artistic talent.
  • commercializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commercialize.
  • commiserations — Plural form of commiseration.
  • commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
  • common carrier — a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers
  • common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
  • common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
  • common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
  • communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
  • communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
  • community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
  • community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
  • compact camera — a simple 35 mm snapshot camera not having interchangeable lenses or through-the-lens focusing but sometimes having automatic focusing, exposure, and winding
  • companion star — companion1 (def 6).
  • company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
  • comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
  • compass course — the direction of a ship's course based on its compass
  • compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
  • complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
  • compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
  • compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
  • comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
  • compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
  • compromisation — The act of compromising.
  • computer-aided — done or improved by computer
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
  • concertmasters — Plural form of concertmaster.
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