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14-letter words containing m, e, r, i, n, s

  • centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
  • china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
  • chinese empire — China as ruled by the emperors until the establishment of the republic in 1911–12
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
  • christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
  • chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
  • circumbendibus — a circumlocution
  • circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
  • commemorations — Plural form of commemoration.
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commiserations — Plural form of commiseration.
  • commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
  • common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
  • comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
  • comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • comprehensions — Plural form of comprehension.
  • comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
  • concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
  • conservativism — Alternative form of conservatism.
  • 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.
  • contemporising — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
  • conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
  • cookie monster — (recreation)   (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
  • coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
  • cornelis tromp — Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
  • creme anglaise — a custardlike cream sauce, often flavored with vanilla, served with fresh fruit, rich chocolate desserts, etc.
  • crimson clover — an annual clover (Trifolium incarnatum) with elongated heads of deep-red flowers, often grown in the S U.S. as a cover or green-manure crop
  • decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
  • decommissioner — a person who decommissions a ship, nuclear reactor, etc
  • decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
  • decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
  • demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
  • demonstrations — Plural form of demonstration.
  • demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
  • demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
  • denmark strait — a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
  • determinations — Plural form of determination.
  • determinatives — Plural form of determinative.
  • determinedness — The state or quality of being determined.
  • diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
  • diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
  • disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.
  • disconcertment — to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
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