14-letter words containing n, i, m, p
- by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
- campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
- campaign medal — a medal awarded for performance of specified service, usually in time of war or national emergency.
- campaign trail — the series of appearances that a politician makes at different locations as part of a political campaign, esp before an election
- campina grande — a city in NE Brazil, in E Paraíba state. Pop: 366 000 (2005 est)
- captain's mast — a hearing conducted by the captain of a vessel into minor offences of the crew
- carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
- catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
- centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
- chemical plant — a factory that produces or processes chemicals
- chemoreception — the response of a chemoreceptor to chemical stimuli
- chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
- chinese empire — China as ruled by the emperors until the establishment of the republic in 1911–12
- chlorpromazine — a drug derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer and sedative, esp in psychotic disorders. Formula: C17H19ClN2S
- chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinema complex — a building containing several cinemas
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- cinemicrograph — a motion picture filmed through a microscope.
- circumposition — the act of circumposing
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
- climbing perch — any of a genus (Anabas) of freshwater gouramies of Southeast Asia and Africa that can live out of water briefly and travel short distances over land
- cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
- comma position — angulation (def 3).
- comma-position — an angular part, position, or formation.
- commandantship — the office of a commandant
- communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
- companion cell — any of a number of specialized parenchymal cells adjacent to a sieve tube in the phloem of flowering plants, believed to regulate the flow of nutrients through the tube.
- companion star — companion1 (def 6).
- companionships — Plural form of companionship.
- compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
- compassionable — exciting or deserving pity
- compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
- compassionless — having no compassion
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compensational — the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
- complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
- complexionless — (of a person's face) pale
- complimentable — Archaic. a gift; present.
- composing room — the room in a printing establishment in which type is set
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- comprehensions — Plural form of comprehension.
- comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
- compromisation — The act of compromising.
- compromisingly — In a compromising manner.
- compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.