13-letter words containing n, a, m, c
- cinema verite — films characterized by subjects, actions, etc, that have the appearance of real life
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- cinematically — Chiefly British. motion picture.
- cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
- cinnamic acid — a white crystalline water-insoluble weak organic acid existing in two isomeric forms; 3-phenylpropenoic acid. The trans- form occurs naturally and its esters are used in perfumery. Formula: C6H5CH:CHCOOH
- cinnamon bear — a reddish-brown variety of the American black bear
- cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
- cinnamon teal — a small, freshwater, wild duck, Anas cyanoptera, of North and South America, having chiefly cinnamon-red plumage.
- circumambient — surrounding
- circumjacency — the state of being circumjacent
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- circumstances — someone's financial situation
- citation form — the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as when cited for purposes of illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech.
- claim-jumping — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- claiming race — a race in which each owner declares beforehand the price at which his or her horse will be offered for sale after the race
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- class meaning — the meaning of a grammatical category or a form class, common to all forms showing the category or to all members of the form class, as in the meaning of number common to all Latin nouns or the meaning of singular common to all Latin singular noun and verb forms.
- claymore mine — an antipersonnel mine designed to produce a direction-guided, fan-shaped pattern of fragments.
- clearing mark — either of a pair of landmarks or marks on a mariner's chart lying upon a line (clearing line) along which a vessel can sail to avoid navigational hazards.
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- climatic zone — any of the eight principal zones, roughly demarcated by lines of latitude, into which the earth can be divided on the basis of climate
- climatization — to acclimate to a new environment.
- climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
- cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
- 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
- clown anemone — a widely distributed anemone fish, Amphiprion ocellaris, having broad bands of orange and white: popular in home aquariums.
- cns stimulant — A CNS stimulant is any substance that stimulates the central nervous system.
- co-management — the practice of managing something jointly
- coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
- cockney bream — a young snapper fish
- coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
- cognitive map — a mental map of one's environment
- cognomination — the process of giving a cognomen
- coleman stove — a portable kerosene camp stove
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- combinability — capable of combining or being combined.
- combinational — Of or pertaining to (a) combination.
- combinatorial — of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination
- combinatorics — a branch of mathematics dealing with combinations and permutations
- come in handy — If something comes in handy, it is useful in a particular situation.
- comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
- coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
- command paper — (in Britain) a government document that is presented to Parliament, in theory by royal command
- commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
- commandership — a person who commands.
- commaundement — Obsolete spelling of commandment.
- commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
- commemoration — the act or an instance of commemorating