14-letter words containing m, a, r, c, i
- 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
- companion star — companion1 (def 6).
- 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
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- confirmational — providing proof or supporting evidence
- conformability — Conformableness.
- conformational — manner of formation; structure; form, as of a physical entity.
- conglomerating — Present participle of conglomerate.
- conglomeration — A conglomeration of things is a group of many different things, gathered together.
- conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
- conservativism — Alternative form of conservatism.
- contemperation — the act of contempering
- contemporaries — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contemporarily — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- 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.
- corpuscularism — (philosophy) Ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
- cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- credit manager — a person employed in a business firm to administer credit service to its customers, especially to evaluate the extension and amount of credit to be granted.
- creme anglaise — a custardlike cream sauce, often flavored with vanilla, served with fresh fruit, rich chocolate desserts, etc.
- crepe marocain — a crepe fabric made of silk, wool, or rayon, or a combination of these fibers, and distinguished by a strong rib effect, used in the manufacture of dresses and women's suits; a heavy Canton crepe.
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- crimen injuria — an action that injures the dignity of another person, esp use of racially offensive language
- criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
- criminalistics — the scientific study of criminal evidence
- criminological — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
- decrementation — The act or process of decrementing.
- decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
- decriminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of decriminalize.
- decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
- democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof