12-letter words containing m, c, n, e, r
- career woman — A career woman is a woman with a career who is interested in working and progressing in her job, rather than staying at home looking after the house and children.
- carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
- cement mixer — A cement mixer is a machine with a large revolving container into which builders put cement, sand, and water in order to make concrete.
- centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
- central time — standard time or daylight saving time in the time zone which includes the central states of the U.S.
- centumvirate — the office of the centumviri
- ceremonially — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
- chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
- chamberlains — Plural form of chamberlain.
- change-maker — a person or thing that changes bills or coins for ones of smaller denominations.
- charmingness — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
- cheesemonger — a person dealing in cheese, butter, etc
- chemosensory — sensitive to chemical stimuli, as the sensory nerve endings that mediate taste and smell.
- child minder — a person who looks after children, esp those whose parents are working
- child-minder — a baby-sitter.
- chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- chlorenchyma — plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chlorophyll
- chondriosome — mitochondrion
- chrome green — any green pigment made by mixing lead chromate with Prussian blue
- chromocenter — karyosome (def 1).
- chromonemata — a chromosome thread that is relatively uncoiled at early prophase but assumes a spiral form at metaphase.
- chronometers — Plural form of chronometer.
- chronometric — of a chronometer or chronometry
- chronosystem — A pattern of events and transitions over the course of a person's life.
- circumcenter — the center of a circumscribed circle; that point where any two perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a polygon inscribed in the circle intersect.
- circumcentre — the centre of a circumscribed circle
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- circumvented — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- citron melon — a kind of fruit with a hard white flesh, that grows on a variety of watermelon plant (Citrullus lanatus var. citroides): used only candied or preserved
- city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
- clay mineral — any of a group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminium silicates: the major constituents of clays
- clean a room — If you clean a room, you make the inside of it and the furniture in it free from dirt and dust.
- clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
- clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War
- column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- come running — hurry, rush
- comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- comfort zone — a situation or position in which a person feels secure, comfortable, or in control
- commandeered — Simple past tense and past participle of commandeer.
- commanderies — the office or rank of a commander.
- commendatory — serving to commend; expressing praise or approval
- commensurate — If the level of one thing is commensurate with another, the first level is in proportion to the second.