11-letter words containing m, o
- camphor ice — an ointment consisting of camphor, white wax, spermaceti, and castor oil, used to treat skin ailments, esp chapped skin
- camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
- camphorated — impregnated or combined with camphor
- camphorates — Plural form of camphorate.
- camphorweed — vinegarweed.
- camphorwood — The wood of Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree whose leaves have a smell of camphor when crushed.
- campo santo — a cemetery
- cancelmoose — (messaging) A semi-mythical being that cancels Usenet articles posted by others. (In general, an article can only be cancelled by its original author.) The Cancelmoose's usual target is spam or extremely excessive cross-posting. Some believe that the Cancelmoose exists only in the same mythic sense that B1FF, the NSA line eater and Shub Internet exist; others consider Cancelmoose's historicity to be closer to that of Kibo. The latter group assume that the real Cancelmoose is not one person (or moose), but instead is a cabal of NNTP wonks. However, the Cancelmoose is probably real, seeing as how it has its own website.
- canis major — a constellation in the S hemisphere close to Orion, containing Sirius, the brightest star in the sky
- canis minor — a small constellation in the N hemisphere close to Orion, containing the first magnitude star Procyon
- cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
- cannot seem — If you say that you cannot seem or could not seem to do something, you mean that you have tried to do it and were unable to.
- canto fermo — a melody that is the basis to which other parts are added in polyphonic music
- cantonments — Plural form of cantonment.
- capilliform — Having the form of a hair.
- caprolactam — a white crystalline cyclic imine used in the manufacture of nylon. Formula: C5H10NHCO
- capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
- car bombing — an instance when a bomb which someone has hidden under or in a car explodes
- carbimazole — a drug that inhibits the synthesis of the hormone thyroxine, used in the management of hyperthyroidism
- carborundum — any of various abrasive materials, esp one consisting of silicon carbide
- carcinomata — Plural form of carcinoma.
- cardiectomy — excision of the heart.
- cardiograms — Plural form of cardiogram.
- cardiomotor — relating to the action of the heart
- cardiospasm — failure of the muscle fibers at the lower end of the esophagus to relax, resulting in swallowing difficulty and regurgitation.
- career move — a change of job, usually to a position with more responsibility and a higher income
- carnivorism — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
- carpet moth — any of several geometrid moths with black- (or brown-)and-white mottled wings
- carpet-bomb — to drop many bombs on (an area) to prepare for advancing ground forces
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- carrom ball — a ball with a spinning action created by keeping the middle finger bent and flicking it outwards at the moment of release
- case method — Also called case-study method [keys-stuhd-ee] /ˈkeɪsˈstʌd i/ (Show IPA). the teaching or elucidation of a subject or issue through analysis and discussion of actual cases, as in business education.
- case*method — An analysis and design method from Oracle targeted at information management applications.
- cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
- catabolisms — Plural form of catabolism.
- catadromous — (of fishes such as the eel) migrating down rivers to the sea in order to breed
- catholicism — Catholicism is the traditions, the behaviour, and the set of Christian beliefs that are held by Catholics.
- cattlewoman — A woman who raises or tends cattle.
- cattlewomen — Plural form of cattlewoman.
- caudillismo — a political system organized under the rule of a caudillo
- cecostomies — Plural form of cecostomy.
- cefmenoxime — A particular third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic.
- ceilometers — Plural form of ceilometer.
- cementation — the process of heating a solid with a powdered material to modify the properties of the solid, esp the heating of wrought iron, surrounded with charcoal, to 750–900°C to produce steel
- cementatory — possessing the quality to firmly unite or cement
- centimorgan — a unit of chromosome length, used in genetic mapping, equal to the length of chromosome over which crossing over occurs with 1 per cent frequency
- centromeres — Plural form of centromere.
- centromeric — Pertaining to, or characteristic of centromeres.
- centrosomal — Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes.
- centrosomes — Plural form of centrosome.