14-letter words containing m, o, t, u, c
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
- croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
- cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
- crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- currant tomato — a Peruvian plant, Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium, of the nightshade family, having numerous bell-shaped, yellow flowers and small, currantlike, red fruit.
- customer's man — registered representative.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- cut the comedy — to stop joking
- cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyclostomatous — having a circular mouth.
- deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
- dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
- excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- gamma function — a function defined by Γ(x) = ∫0∞tx–1e–tdt, where x is real and greater than zero
- heterochromous — of different colors.
- homomultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more identical polypeptide chains.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humidification — to make humid.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- hydropneumatic — relating to both liquid and gas substances
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- immunogenetics — the branch of immunology dealing with the study of immunity in relation to genetic makeup.
- immunogenicity — causing or capable of producing an immune response.
- immunoreaction — Immune reaction.
- immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
- immunotoxicity — The toxic effect of an immunotoxin on the immune system.
- income account — an account maintained for a particular item of revenue or income.
- income support — welfare payment to low earners
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- injection pump — An injection pump is a device that supplies fuel under pressure to the injector of a fuel injection system.
- intercommunion — mutual communion, association, or relations.
- intercommunity — common ownership, use, participation, etc.
- intermolecular — existing or occurring between molecules.
- intramolecular — existing or occurring within a molecule.
- joint compound — a plasterlike material used to cover joints or the heads of screws in drywall or plasterboard.