12-letter words containing m, y, r
- chymotrypsin — a powerful proteolytic enzyme secreted from the pancreas in the form of chymotrypsinogen, being converted to the active form by trypsin
- chymotryptic — relating to chymotrypsin
- circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
- circumgyrate — to cause (something) to move in a circular motion
- circumrotary — Alternative form of circumrotatory.
- city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
- clamourously — Archaic spelling of clamorously.
- clay mineral — any of a group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminium silicates: the major constituents of clays
- clitorectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure to remove all or part of the clitoris; female circumcision.
- clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War
- combat-ready — ready for combat
- cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
- comfortingly — In a comforting manner.
- commendatory — serving to commend; expressing praise or approval
- commercially — of, relating to, or characteristic of commerce.
- compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
- compensatory — Compensatory payments involve money paid as compensation.
- compressedly — in a compressed manner
- compulsatory — compulsory
- compulsorily — required; mandatory; obligatory: compulsory education.
- condemnatory — Condemnatory means expressing strong disapproval.
- confirmatory — confirming or tending to confirm
- conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
- conformingly — In a way that conforms.
- consummatory — to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill.
- contemporary — Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.
- coomaraswamy — Ananda (Kentish). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West
- copolymerise — Alt form copolymerize.
- copolymerize — to react (two compounds) together to produce a copolymer
- cotemporally — At the same time.
- country mile — a long way
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- countrywomen — Plural form of countrywoman.
- coxey's army — Jacob Sechler [sech-ler] /ˈsɛtʃ lər/ (Show IPA), 1854–1951, U.S. political reformer: led a group of unemployed marchers (Coxey's army) in 1894 from Ohio to Washington, D.C., to petition Congress for legislation to create jobs and relieve poverty.
- crape myrtle — an oriental lythraceous shrub, Lagerstroemia indica, cultivated in warm climates for its pink, red, or white flowers
- cream sherry — a full-bodied sweet sherry
- cruciformity — being in the shape of a cross; cross-shaped.
- crumble away — disintegrate
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptogamist — a botanist specializing in the study of cryptogams
- cryptogamous — Of or pertaining to the cryptogams.
- cryptomerias — Plural form of cryptomeria.
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomnesic — of, relating to, or characterized by cryptomnesia
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- cryptonymous — having a code name or secret name
- cryptorchism — failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.
- cryptosystem — a system for encoding and decoding secret messages.
- crystal form — a symmetrical set of planes in space, associated with a crystal, having the same symmetry as the crystal class