11-letter words containing m, o, u, c
- caudillismo — a political system organized under the rule of a caudillo
- ceremonious — especially or excessively polite or formal
- champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
- chaulmoogra — a tropical Asian tree, Taraktogenos (or Hydnocarpus) kurzii: family Flacourtiaceae
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- chibougamau — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- chlamydeous — (of plants) relating to or possessing sepals and petals
- chrome alum — a violet-red crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing. Formula: KCr(SO4)2.12H2O
- chromium 51 — the radioactive isotope of chromium having a mass number 51 and a half-life of 27.8 days: used as a tracer.
- chucklesome — amusing; full of humour
- chum salmon — a large salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) with pale flesh, found in the N Pacific
- church mode — a mode belonging to a codified system of modes in use in Gregorian chant and in other music to c1600.
- churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
- churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
- chymiferous — containing chyme
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- circumsolar — surrounding or rotating around the sun
- circumvolve — to (cause to) turn around
- cirrocumuli — Plural form of cirrocumulus.
- clamorously — full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamor.
- clostridium — any anaerobic typically rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Clostridium, occurring mainly in soil, but also in the intestines of humans and animals: family Bacillaceae. The genus includes the species causing botulism and tetanus
- coat armour — a coat of arms
- coati-mundi — coati
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- code number — a number used to identify something
- colloquiums — Plural form of colloquium.
- collunarium — a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.
- collutorium — collutory.
- colour film — a film for use in cameras that produces coloured pictures
- colubriform — shaped like or resembling a member of the Colubridae family of snakes
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columbiform — Having the form of a dove or pigeon.
- column inch — a unit of measurement for advertising space, one inch deep and one column wide
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
- columniform — Having the form of a column.
- columnistic — belonging or relating to a columnist
- combat duty — active service
- combustible — A combustible material or gas catches fire and burns easily.
- combustibly — In a combustible manner.
- combustions — Plural form of combustion.
- combustious — turbulent
- come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- come out in — If you come out in spots, you become covered with them.
- come out of — costs: be subtracted
- come up for — When someone or something comes up for consideration or action of some kind, the time arrives when they have to be considered or dealt with.
- comedy club — a club where stand-up comedians perform
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
- comma fault — the use of a comma, rather than a semicolon, colon, or period, to separate related main clauses in the absence of a coordinating conjunction: often considered to be incorrect or undesirable, especially in formal writing.
- comment out — (programming) To surround a section of code with comment delimiters or to prefix every line in the section with a comment marker. This prevents it from being compiled or interpreted. It is often done to temporarily disable the code, e.g. during debugging or when the code is redundant or obsolete, but is being left in the source to make the intent of the active code clearer. The word "comment" is sometimes replaced with whatever syntax is used to mark comments in the language in question, e.g. "hash out" (shell script, Perl), "REM out" (BASIC), etc. Compare condition out.