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14-letter words containing m

  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
  • columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
  • coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.
  • combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
  • combining form — A combining form is a word that is used, or used with a particular meaning, only when joined to another word. For example, '-legged' as in 'four-legged' and '-fold' as in 'fivefold' are combining forms.
  • combustibility — capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.
  • come a cropper — If you say that someone has come a cropper, you mean that they have had an unexpected and embarrassing failure.
  • come down with — If you come down with an illness, you get it.
  • come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
  • come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
  • come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
  • come on strong — If someone comes on strong, they make their intentions or feelings clear in an excessive or aggressive way.
  • come one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • come to a halt — stop suddenly
  • come to a head — to be about to discharge pus
  • come to an end — to become completed or exhausted
  • come to nought — If you try to do something but your efforts are not successful, you can say that your efforts come to nought.
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • comfort letter — an informal statement assuring the financial soundness or backing of a company.
  • comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • comma bacillus — a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio comma, that causes cholera in man: family Spirillaceae
  • comma position — angulation (def 3).
  • comma-position — an angular part, position, or formation.
  • command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
  • command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
  • commandantship — the office of a commandant
  • commemorations — Plural form of commemoration.
  • commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commentary box — the place where the commentators on a sporting event sit
  • commentatorial — relating to commentators or the creation of commentaries
  • commercial art — graphic art for commercial uses such as advertising, packaging, etc
  • commercial law — business law
  • commercialised — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
  • commercialises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commercialise.
  • commercialized — spoiled by commercial exploitation; degraded
  • commercializer — to emphasize the profitable aspects of, especially at the expense of quality: to commercialize one's artistic talent.
  • commercializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commercialize.
  • commiserations — Plural form of commiseration.
  • commission fee — a fee paid to auctioneers, salespeople, etc, for their services
  • commissionable — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
  • commissionaire — a uniformed doorman at a hotel, theatre, etc
  • commissurotomy — the incision of a band of commissures, especially of mitral fibers, to correct mitral stenosis.
  • commitment fee — a charge made by a bank, in addition to interest, to make a loan available to a potential borrower
  • committeewoman — a female member of a committee
  • committeewomen — Plural form of committeewoman.
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