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12-letter words containing m, o, n, e, c

  • career woman — A career woman is a woman with a career who is interested in working and progressing in her job, rather than staying at home looking after the house and children.
  • carpetmonger — a person who frequently visits women's boudoirs
  • cash economy — an economic system, or part of one, in which financial transactions are carried out in cash rather than via direct debit, standing order, bank transfer, or credit card
  • cementitious — of, relating to, or characteristic of cement
  • centimorgans — Plural form of centimorgan.
  • ceremonially — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • cessationism — The concept, amongst most Christians, that the works of the Holy Spirit (speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and miracles) ceased at some point in history.
  • chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
  • chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
  • cheesemonger — a person dealing in cheese, butter, etc
  • chemokinesis — the random movement of cells, such as leucocytes, stimulated by substances in their environment
  • chemosensory — sensitive to chemical stimuli, as the sensory nerve endings that mediate taste and smell.
  • chimney rock — a column of rock rising above the level of the surrounding area or isolated on the face of a steep slope.
  • chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
  • chlorenchyma — plant tissue consisting of parenchyma cells that contain chlorophyll
  • chondriosome — mitochondrion
  • chrome green — any green pigment made by mixing lead chromate with Prussian blue
  • chromocenter — karyosome (def 1).
  • chromonemata — a chromosome thread that is relatively uncoiled at early prophase but assumes a spiral form at metaphase.
  • chronometers — Plural form of chronometer.
  • chronometric — of a chronometer or chronometry
  • chronosystem — A pattern of events and transitions over the course of a person's life.
  • ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
  • cinema-going — regularly attending the cinema
  • circumventor — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • citron melon — a kind of fruit with a hard white flesh, that grows on a variety of watermelon plant (Citrullus lanatus var. citroides): used only candied or preserved
  • claude monet — Claude [klawd;; French klohd] /klɔd;; French kloʊd/ (Show IPA), 1840–1926, French painter.
  • clean a room — If you clean a room, you make the inside of it and the furniture in it free from dirt and dust.
  • cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
  • clerodendrum — any of numerous tropical trees or shrubs of the genus Clerodendrum, having clusters of variously colored flowers.
  • clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • closing time — Closing time is the time when something such as a shop, library, or pub closes and people have to leave.
  • cobaltammine — any of the various complex derivatives of cobalt containing one or more molecules of ammonia bonded to the cobalt.
  • code segment — (memory)   (Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing the machine code instructions of a program. The code segment of a program may be shared between multiple processes running that code so long as none of them tries to modify it. Initialised data is located in the data segment.
  • coin machine — slot machine (def 2).
  • collembolans — Plural form of collembolan.
  • column dress — a very straight, close-fitting dress.
  • columnarized — columnar (def 3).
  • combat knife — a large knife for military use
  • come between — If someone or something comes between two people, or comes between a person and a thing, they make the relationship or connection between them less close or happy.
  • come down on — If you come down on one side of an argument, you declare that you support that side.
  • come down to — If a problem, decision, or question comes down to a particular thing, that thing is the most important factor involved.
  • come running — hurry, rush
  • come to hand — to become available; be received
  • come to mind — be recalled
  • come unglued — If something comes unglued, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
  • come unstuck — If something comes unstuck, it becomes separated from the thing that it was attached to.
  • comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • comeuppances — Plural form of comeuppance.
  • comfort zone — a situation or position in which a person feels secure, comfortable, or in control
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