12-letter words containing m, o, n
- combinations — a one-piece woollen undergarment with long sleeves and legs
- 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
- comfortingly — In a comforting manner.
- command line — typed instructions that access a computer system
- command post — A command post is a place from which a commander in the army controls and organizes his forces.
- commandeered — Simple past tense and past participle of commandeer.
- commanderies — the office or rank of a commander.
- commandingly — being in command: a commanding officer.
- commandments — a command or mandate.
- commencement — The commencement of something is its beginning.
- commendation — the act or an instance of commending; praise
- commendatory — serving to commend; expressing praise or approval
- commensalism — a close association or union between two kinds of organisms, in which one is benefited by the relationship and the other is neither benefited nor harmed
- commensality — eating together at the same table.
- commensurate — If the level of one thing is commensurate with another, the first level is in proportion to the second.
- commentarial — a series of comments, explanations, or annotations: a commentary on the Bible; news followed by a commentary.
- commentariat — the journalists and broadcasters who analyse and comment on current affairs
- commentaries — Plural form of commentary.
- commentating — Present participle of commentate.
- commentation — the act of making comments
- commentative — of or relating to comment or commentary.
- commentators — Plural form of commentator.
- comminations — Plural form of commination.
- commissioned — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- commissioner — A commissioner is an important official in a government department or other organization.
- committeeman — a member of one or more committees
- committeemen — Plural form of committeeman.
- common chord — a chord consisting of the keynote, a major or minor third, and a perfect fifth
- common metre — a stanza form, used esp for hymns, consisting of four lines, two of eight syllables alternating with two of six
- common pleas — in some U.S. states, a court having general and original jurisdiction over civil and criminal trials
- common ratio — geometric ratio.
- common scold — (in early common law) a habitually rude and brawling woman whose conduct was subject to punishment as a public nuisance.
- common sense — Your common sense is your natural ability to make good judgments and to behave in a practical and sensible way.
- common shrew — a small mouse-like long-snouted mammal, Sorex araneus, of the family Soricidae: order Insectivora (insectivores)
- common snipe — a bird, Gallinago gallinago, of marshes and river banks, having a long straight bill: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes
- common stock — Common stock refers to the shares in a company that are owned by people who have a right to vote at the company's meetings and to receive part of the company's profits after the holders of preferred stock have been paid.
- common swift — Apus apus, a bird with long narrow wings which spends most of the time on the wing
- common topaz — topaz (def 2).
- common touch — the ability to communicate with, appeal to, or inspire ordinary people.
- common zebra — Equus burchelli, the most common type of zebra