16-letter words containing m, y, i
- chemoreceptivity — The ability of a sense organ to respond to a chemical stimulus.
- chimney-climbing — the sport of climbing a vertical fissure large enough for a person's body to enter
- churidar pyjamas — long tight-fitting trousers, worn by Indian men and women
- chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
- chytridiomycosis — An infectious disease of amphibians caused by the chytrid fungus.
- cinnamyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 12 O 2 , having a piquant, flowerlike odor: used as a fixative in the manufacture of perfumes.
- circumlocutorily — In a circumlocutory manner.
- circumnavigatory — Pertaining to circumnavigation.
- circumstantially — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
- climatologically — In climatological terms.
- closed community — a plant community that does not allow for further colonization, all the available niches being occupied
- colorimetrically — (analytical chemistry) By means of colorimetry or by using a colorimeter.
- commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
- commit to memory — to learn by heart; memorize
- commodity dollar — the unit of a proposed system of currency, that would have a fluctuating gold value determined at regular intervals on the basis of an official index of the prices of key commodities
- commonsensically — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
- communion sunday — any Sunday on which communion is administered.
- community action — campaigns undertaken by the people living in a particular place
- community center — A community center is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
- community centre — A community centre is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
- community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
- community church — an independent or denominational church in a particular community.
- community leader — a leading figure in a community
- community school — a school offering some nonacademic activities related to life in a particular community and often serving as a community centre
- community spirit — willingness and desire to participate in activities that promote a community
- community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
- companionability — The state of being companionable, suitability for companionship.
- complex analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with analytic functions of a complex variable.
- complexity class — (algorithm) A collection of algorithms or computable functions with the same complexity.
- composite family — the large and varied plant family Compositae (or Asteraceae), typified by herbaceous plants having alternate, opposite, or whorled leaves and a whorl of bracts surrounding the flower heads, which are usually composed of a disk containing tiny petalless flowers and a ray of petals extending from the flowers at the rim of the disk, some flower heads being composed only of a disk or a ray and some plants having clusters of flower heads, and including the aster, daisy, dandelion, goldenrod, marigold, ragweed, sunflower, thistle, and zinnia.
- compositionality — The property of being compositional.
- conscience money — money paid voluntarily to compensate for dishonesty, esp money paid voluntarily for taxes formerly evaded
- consumer society — You can use consumer society to refer to a society where people think that spending money on goods and services is very important.
- continental army — the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.
- copolymerization — a process resembling polymerization, in which unlike molecules unite in alternate or random sequences in a chain
- copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
- cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
- cyanogen bromide — a colorless, slightly water-soluble, poisonous, volatile, crystalline solid, BrCN, used chiefly as a fumigant and a pesticide.
- cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
- dafydd ap gwilym — ?1320–?1380, Welsh poet
- decimal currency — a system of currency in which the monetary units are parts or powers of ten
- democratic party — (in the US) the older and more liberal of the two major political parties, so named since 1840
- demolition derby — a competition in which contestants drive old cars into each other until there is only one car left running
- denominationally — In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.
- deoxyhaemoglobin — (biochemistry) The form of haemoglobin that has released its oxygen.
- depolymerisation — (chemistry) alternative spelling of depolymerization.
- depolymerization — (chemistry) The decomposition of a polymer into smaller fragments.
- dermatologically — In a dermatological way.
- diacetylmorphine — heroin.
- diagrammatically — in the form of a diagram; graphic; outlined.