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13-letter words containing m, o, n, r

  • cinnamon bear — a reddish-brown variety of the American black bear
  • cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
  • circumcisions — Plural form of circumcision.
  • circumduction — the action of turning anything on its axis
  • circumflexion — The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
  • circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
  • citation form — the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as when cited for purposes of illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech.
  • clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
  • claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
  • climbing iron — either of a pair of metal frames with spikes that may be strapped over footgear, on the inside of the leg to aid in climbing trees, public utility poles, etc.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
  • close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
  • coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
  • cockney bream — a young snapper fish
  • coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
  • column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
  • combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
  • combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
  • comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
  • command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
  • commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
  • commandership — a person who commands.
  • commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
  • commemoration — the act or an instance of commemorating
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
  • commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
  • commiseration — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
  • commissionary — Of, relating to, or conferring a commission.
  • commissioners — a person commissioned to act officially; member of a commission.
  • common canary — See under canary (def 1).
  • common factor — a number or quantity that is a factor of each member of a group of numbers or quantities
  • common gender — in English, a noun that is the same whether it is referring to either gender, such as cat, people, spouse.
  • common ground — If two people or groups find common ground, they agree about something, especially when they do not agree about other things.
  • common market — A common market is an organization of countries who have agreed to trade freely with each other and make common decisions about industry and agriculture.
  • common prayer — the liturgy of public services of the Church of England, esp Morning and Evening Prayer
  • common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
  • common rhythm — the usual English verse rhythm created by a succession of metrical feet each of which consists of a stressed syllable and one or two unstressed ones.
  • common scoter — a sea duck of northern regions, Melanitta nigra. The male plumage is black with white patches around the head and eyes
  • communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
  • communicators — Plural form of communicator.
  • communicatory — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • communitarian — a member of a communist community
  • commuter line — a railway line that mainly serves commuters
  • commuter town — a town that is home mainly to commuters
  • company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
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