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

  • career criminal — a person who earns his income through criminal activities
  • carmarthenshire — a county of S Wales, formerly part of Dyfed (1974–96): on Carmarthen Bay, with the Cambrian Mountains in the N: generally agricultural (esp dairying). Administrative centre: Carmarthen. Pop: 176 000 (2003 est). Area: 2398 sq km (926 sq miles)
  • casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • castrametations — Plural form of castrametation.
  • catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
  • central america — an isthmus joining the continents of North and South America, extending from the S border of Mexico to the NW border of Colombia and consisting of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Area: about 518 000 sq km (200 000 sq miles)
  • ceylon cinnamon — the aromatic inner bark of any of several East Indian trees belonging to the genus Cinnamonum, of the laurel family, especially the bark of C. zeylanicum (Ceylon cinnamon) used as a spice, or that of C. loureirii (Saigon cinnamon) used in medicine as a cordial and carminative.
  • chamber concert — a concert of chamber music
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • champagne flute — a tall, thin champagne glass
  • champagne glass — a glass for drinking champagne, either a glass with a wide mouth and a roughly triangular shape or a tall flute
  • charles simonyi — (person)   Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond.
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chemical change — Chemistry. a usually irreversible chemical reaction involving the rearrangement of the atoms of one or more substances and a change in their chemical properties or composition, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance: The formation of rust on iron is a chemical change.
  • chemoattractant — a chemical substance that provokes chemotaxis, esp one that causes a bacterium to move in the direction in which its concentration is increasing
  • chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
  • chemotaxonomist — a specialist in the field of chemotaxonomy
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • chimney-pot hat — a high silk hat; top hat.
  • chinese mustard — brown mustard.
  • chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
  • chopped almonds — almonds cut into small pieces
  • chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
  • cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
  • circumambiently — in a circumambient manner
  • circumferential — of, at, or near the circumference; surrounding; lying along the outskirts.
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
  • circumstantiate — to support by giving particulars
  • climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • 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
  • collenchymatous — Relating to collenchyma.
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • 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
  • commercialising — Present participle of commercialise.
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