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15-letter words containing m, a

  • circumstantiate — to support by giving particulars
  • circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
  • circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
  • city councilman — a member of a city council
  • claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
  • clamp down (on) — to become more strict (with)
  • classical music — a style of music composed, esp at Vienna, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This period is marked by the establishment, esp by Haydn and Mozart, of sonata form
  • cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
  • climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
  • climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • coast mountains — a mountain range in Canada, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Waddington, 4043 m (13 266 ft)
  • coconut matting — a form of coarse matting made from the fibrous husk of the coconut
  • code management — source code management
  • codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
  • coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
  • coleman lantern — a gasoline lantern that gives a bright light, used by campers
  • collective farm — (chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
  • collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
  • college of arms — any of several institutions in the United Kingdom having a royal charter to deal with matters of heraldry, grant armorial bearings, record and trace genealogies, etc
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • colonial animal — compound animal
  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combat trousers — Combat trousers are large, loose trousers with lots of pockets.
  • combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
  • 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 for air — rise to water's surface
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
  • comfort station — a public lavatory and rest room
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • comfortably off — If someone is comfortably off, they have enough money to be able to live without financial problems.
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • command economy — In a command economy, business activities and the use of resources are decided by the government, and not by market forces.
  • commendableness — The state or quality of being commendable.
  • commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
  • commercial code — a telegraphic code designed to convey a message with a minimum number of words and thereby reduce toll costs.
  • commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
  • commercializing — Present participle of commercialize.
  • commiseratingly — in a manner expressing commiseration
  • commission plan — (in the US) a system of municipal government that combines legislative and executive authority in a commission of five or six elected members
  • commissionaires — Plural form of commissionaire.
  • commissionnaire — Alternative form of commissionaire.
  • commit to paper — to write down; record
  • committal order — the document that commits someone to prison
  • committee stage — (in British parliamentary procedure) the detailed examination by MPs of proposed legislation
  • commodification — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
  • commoditization — The transformation of something into a commodity.
  • commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
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