14-letter words containing n, o, c, a, m
- coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
- cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
- coffee machine — a machine that makes coffee from ground coffee
- colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
- 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
- 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.
- come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
- come one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- come to an end — to become completed or exhausted
- comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
- 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
- commiserations — Plural form of commiseration.
- 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
- committeewoman — a female member of a committee
- commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
- common assault — an action that causes a person to fear that he or she is in danger of violent attack
- common carrier — a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers
- common footman — an arctiid moth, ( Eilema lurideola), related to the tiger moth, with yellowish hind wings and brown forewings with a yellow front stripe; they produce woolly bear larvae
- common grackle — a large songbird, Quiscalus quiscula, of the family Icteridae, of central and eastern North America, having iridescent black plumage varying in color.
- common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
- common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
- common swallow — Hirundo rustica, a passerine songbird of the family Hirundinidae, having long pointed wings, a forked tail, short legs, and a rapid flight
- commonsensical — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
- communications — the ways in which human beings communicate
- communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
- communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
- communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
- community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
- community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
- 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.
- company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- 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