13-letter words containing m, y
- circumductory — relating to circumduction
- circumjacency — the state of being circumjacent
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
- claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
- climactically — In a climactic fashion; like, or as, a climax.
- climatography — an account of a region's climate
- climbing lily — a climbing lily of the genus Gloriosa, native to Africa and Asia, having showy red and yellow flowers.
- close company — a company under the control of its directors or fewer than five independent participants
- close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
- closed system — a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it.
- cockney bream — a young snapper fish
- coenzyme q 10 — a naturally occurring, fat-soluble, vitaminlike enzyme found in a variety of foods and synthesized in the body: sold as a dietary supplement for its antioxidant properties.
- colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
- combinability — capable of combining or being combined.
- come in handy — If something comes in handy, it is useful in a particular situation.
- come what may — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- commemoratory — commemorative (def 1).
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commerce city — a city in central Colorado.
- commerciality — commercial quality or character; ability to produce a profit: Distributors were concerned about the film's commerciality compared with last year's successful pictures.
- commissionary — Of, relating to, or conferring a commission.
- common canary — See under canary (def 1).
- common prayer — the liturgy of public services of the Church of England, esp Morning and Evening Prayer
- common rhythm — the usual English verse rhythm created by a succession of metrical feet each of which consists of a stressed syllable and one or two unstressed ones.
- communicatory — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- communicology — the study of communication.
- commutability — The quality of being commutable.
- commutatively — of or relating to commutation, exchange, substitution, or interchange.
- commutativity — the property of being commutative
- companionably — possessing the qualities of a good companion; pleasant to be with; congenial.
- companionways — Plural form of companionway.
- company grade — military rank applying to army officers below major, as second and first lieutenants and captains.
- company store — a retail store operated by a company for the convenience of the employees, who are required to buy from the store.
- company union — an unaffiliated union of workers usually restricted to a single business enterprise
- company woman — a female employee whose allegiance to her employer comes before personal beliefs or loyalty to fellow workers.
- comparability — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- comparatively — in a comparative manner
- compatability — Misspelling of compatibility.
- compatibility — compatible
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- competitively — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- complainingly — In a complaining manner; peevishly.
- complaisantly — (archaic) In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
- complementary — Complementary things are different from each other but make a good combination.
- complexometry — a chemical technique using the formation of a colored complex to indicate the end of a titration.
- complicatedly — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- complimentary — If you are complimentary about something, you express admiration for it.
- computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
- concomitantly — existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way; accompanying; concurrent: an event and its concomitant circumstances.