14-letter words containing m, l, n
- chemical agent — an agent that produces chemical reactions
- chemical plant — a factory that produces or processes chemicals
- chemical toner — toner (def 4).
- chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
- chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
- chinook salmon — a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus tschawytscha, valued as a food fish
- chlorpromazine — a drug derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer and sedative, esp in psychotic disorders. Formula: C17H19ClN2S
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- cholinomimetic — mimicking the action of choline, especially acetylcholine.
- chondromalacia — degeneration of cartilage in the knee, usually caused by excessive wear between the patella and lower end of the femur.
- chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
- cinema complex — a building containing several cinemas
- circumcolumnar — surrounding a column.
- circumlocution — A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.
- circumstantial — Circumstantial evidence is evidence that makes it seem likely that something happened, but does not prove it.
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- circumvolution — the act of turning, winding, or folding around a central axis
- cleaning woman — A cleaning woman is the same as a cleaning lady.
- cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
- climate canary — a human being or other living organism whose lack of health indicates environmental problems, reminiscent of the way in which live canaries were once used to detect the presence of poisonous gas in coal mines
- climate change — change occurring in the Earth's overall climate and in particular climates, now regarded as a result of human activity and resulting generally in global warming
- climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
- climbing irons — spiked steel frames worn on the feet to assist in climbing trees, ice slopes, etc
- climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
- clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
- colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
- combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.
- come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
- come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
- command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- commentatorial — relating to commentators or the creation of commentaries
- commissionable — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
- common assault — an action that causes a person to fear that he or she is in danger of violent attack
- common council — the local legislative body of a municipal government.
- common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
- common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
- common swallow — Hirundo rustica, a passerine songbird of the family Hirundinidae, having long pointed wings, a forked tail, short legs, and a rapid flight
- commonsensical — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
- communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
- community life — the life and activities of a community
- companion cell — any of a number of specialized parenchymal cells adjacent to a sieve tube in the phloem of flowering plants, believed to regulate the flow of nutrients through the tube.
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
- compassionless — having no compassion
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compensational — the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
- complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave