11-letter words containing m, e, c
- contemplant — absorbed in contemplation
- contemplate — If you contemplate an action, you think about whether to do it or not.
- contenement — a holding or a property that must be held by a freeman in order to maintain his station
- contentment — Contentment is a feeling of quiet happiness and satisfaction.
- conterminal — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- contretemps — A contretemps is a small disagreement that is rather embarrassing.
- controlment — power to direct or determine
- contumelies — Plural form of contumely.
- cooked mode — The normalUnix character-input mode, with interrupts enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly by the tty driver. Opposite of raw mode. See also rare mode. Other operating systems often have similar mode distinctions, and the raw/rare/cooked way of describing them has spread widely along with the C language and other Unix exports. Most generally, "cooked mode" may refer to any mode of a system that does extensive preprocessing before presenting data to a program.
- copernicium — a highly radioactive element that is produced synthetically. Symbol: Cn; atomic no: 112; atomic wt: 285
- copolymeric — of or relating to a copolymer
- coppersmith — a person who works copper or copper alloys
- copy member — copybook
- copy module — copybook
- core memory — core storage
- corrigendum — an error to be corrected
- cosmetician — a person who makes, sells, or applies cosmetics
- cosmeticism — the practice of beautifying
- cosmeticize — to give (someone or something) a cosmetic treatment
- cosmetology — the work of beauty therapists, including hairdressing, facials, manicures, etc
- cosmodromes — Plural form of cosmodrome.
- cosmogonies — Plural form of cosmogony.
- cosmologies — Plural form of cosmology.
- cosmopolite — an animal or plant that occurs in most parts of the world
- cosmosphere — a device consisting of a glass globe on which the stars are shown, and within which is another globe representing the Earth, that shows the position of the Earth, at any given time, in relation to the stars
- cosmothetic — positing the existence of the external world
- cotemporary — contemporary
- coterminous — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous
- coulometric — (physics, chemistry) of, or relating to coulometry.
- countermand — If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order.
- countermark — a mark on an object that is additional to a mark already on that object, and that serves a purpose such as enhancing security, or noting a change in the value of that object, etc
- countermemo — a memorandum responding to another memorandum
- countermine — a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by an enemy
- countermove — A countermove is an action that someone takes in response to an action by another person or group.
- countermure — a wall positioned behind, or before, another wall and hence providing extra defence
- countermyth — a myth that conflicts with another myth
- counterterm — Antithesis.
- countrymade — (in India) Describing a weapon manufactured illegally in a cottage industry.
- county home — a county poorhouse.
- coursemates — Plural form of coursemate.
- courtierism — the characteristic practices or qualities of a courtier
- covermounts — Plural form of covermount.
- cpt theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
- cram course — an intensive course of study designed to review or teach material needed for a specific purpose or, often, material previously taught but not mastered.
- crampedness — confined or severely limited in space: cramped closets.
- crampfishes — Plural form of crampfish.
- craniectomy — the surgical removal of a part of the skull to facilitate brain surgery, the bone then being discarded rather than replaced
- craniometer — an instrument for measuring the cranium or skull
- craniometry — the study and measurement of skulls