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11-letter words containing n, c, m

  • come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
  • come in for — If someone or something comes in for criticism or blame, they receive it.
  • come out in — If you come out in spots, you become covered with them.
  • comediennes — Plural form of comedienne.
  • comedogenic — producing or causing blackheads or acne
  • comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
  • comicalness — The state or quality of being comical.
  • command car — a vehicle for use by a commander and staff.
  • command key — (on a computer keyboard) a key used when executing commands
  • commandable — able to be commanded
  • commandants — Plural form of commandant.
  • commandeers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commandeer.
  • commandment — The Ten Commandments are the ten rules of behaviour which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible, people should obey.
  • commendable — If you describe someone's behaviour as commendable, you approve of it or are praising it.
  • commendably — worthy of praise: She did a commendable job of informing all the interested parties.
  • commendator — a person who holds a commendam
  • commensally — In a commensal manner.
  • comment out — (programming)   To surround a section of code with comment delimiters or to prefix every line in the section with a comment marker. This prevents it from being compiled or interpreted. It is often done to temporarily disable the code, e.g. during debugging or when the code is redundant or obsolete, but is being left in the source to make the intent of the active code clearer. The word "comment" is sometimes replaced with whatever syntax is used to mark comments in the language in question, e.g. "hash out" (shell script, Perl), "REM out" (BASIC), etc. Compare condition out.
  • commentable — a remark, observation, or criticism: a comment about the weather.
  • commentated — Simple past tense and past participle of commentate.
  • commentator — A commentator is a broadcaster who gives a radio or television commentary on an event.
  • commination — the act or an instance of threatening punishment or vengeance
  • comminative — comminatory
  • comminatory — Threatening, punitive, or vengeful.
  • commingling — Present participle of commingle.
  • comminuting — Present participle of comminute.
  • comminution — The action of reducing a material, an ore, to minute particles or fragments.
  • commissions — Plural form of commission.
  • commitments — the act of committing.
  • common cold — The common cold is a mild illness. If you have it, your nose is blocked or runny and you have a sore throat or a cough.
  • common core — the most important subjects of the curriculum
  • common cost — costs assignable to two or more products, operations, departments, etc., of a company.
  • common crab — an edible crustacean, Cancer pagurusan
  • common good — the part of the property of a Scottish burgh, in the form of land or funds, that is at the disposal of the community
  • common gull — a type of gull, Larus canus
  • common land — Common land is land which everyone is allowed to use.
  • common lisp — (language)   A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs., Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Yale, MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped. Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp. It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS, an extended LOOP macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames. Implementations include AKCL, CCL, CLiCC, CLISP, CLX, CMU Common Lisp, DCL, KCL, MCL and WCL. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
  • common nail — a cut or wire nail having a slender shaft and a broad, flat head.
  • common name — a noun that may be preceded by an article or other limiting modifier and that denotes any or all of a class of entities and not an individual, as man, city, horse, music.
  • common noun — A common noun is a noun such as 'tree', 'water', or 'beauty' that is not the name of one particular person or thing. Compare proper noun.
  • common room — A common room is a room in a university or school where people can sit, talk, and relax.
  • common salt — salt1 (def 1).
  • common seal — the official seal of a corporate body
  • common teal — a small Eurasian duck, Anas crecca, that is related to the mallard and frequents ponds, lakes, and marshes
  • common tern — any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
  • common time — a time signature indicating four crotchet beats to the bar; four-four time
  • common toad — an amphibian of the class Bufonidae, Bufo bufo of Europe
  • common year — an ordinary year of 365 days; a year having no intercalary period.
  • commonality — Commonality is used to refer to a feature or purpose that is shared by two or more people or things.
  • commonition — (obsolete) advice; warning; instruction.
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