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15-letter words containing m, i, c, a, e, o

  • bathing costume — A bathing costume is a piece of clothing that is worn for swimming, especially by women and girls.
  • bear comparison — to be sufficiently similar in class or range to be compared with (something else), esp favourably
  • biomathematical — relating to biomathematics
  • biomechanically — from a biomechanical point of view
  • black guillemot — a common guillemot, Cepphus grylle: its summer plumage is black with white wing patches and its winter plumage white with greyish wings
  • bladder campion — a European caryophyllaceous plant, Silene vulgaris, having white flowers with an inflated calyx
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • cacodaemoniacal — Demonic; evil.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • caffe macchiato — a hot beverage consisting of espresso and a small amount of foamed milk.
  • cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
  • calamine lotion — a soothing lotion containing calamine
  • calcium blocker — any of a group of drugs that prevent the influx of calcium into excitable tissues such as smooth muscle of the heart or arterioles, used in the treatment of angina, hypertension, and certain arrhythmias.
  • calcium oxalate — a white, crystalline powder, CaC 2 O 4 , insoluble in water, used in making oxalic acid.
  • camelot library — (library)  
  • campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
  • camphorated oil — a liniment consisting of camphor and peanut oil, used as a counterirritant
  • carbon monoxide — Carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas that is produced especially by the engines of vehicles.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • chamois leather — soft cleaning cloth
  • 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 toilet — a toilet in which waste is treated with chemicals
  • chemopsychiatry — the study and application of chemical substances in psychiatry
  • 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.
  • chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
  • cholesterolemia — the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • chromatic scale — a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
  • chromic acetate — a grayish-green, water-soluble powder, Cr(C 2 H 3 O 2) 3 ⋅H 2 O, used chiefly as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles.
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
  • 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
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
  • climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
  • codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
  • coenzymatically — from a coenzymatic point of view
  • 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.
  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
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