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15-letter words containing o, a, m, r

  • carpometacarpus — a bone in the wing of a bird that consists of the metacarpal bones and some of the carpal bones fused together
  • cassette memory — a removable magnetic tape cartridge that stores data and programs.
  • castanospermine — a substance obtained from the Australian chestnut or black bean tree
  • casters-up mode — [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).
  • castrametations — Plural form of castrametation.
  • catchment board — a public body concerned with the conservation and organization of water supply from a catchment area
  • chamber concert — a concert of chamber music
  • chamber counsel — a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
  • chamois leather — soft cleaning cloth
  • chanson d'amour — love song.
  • charles coulomb — Charles Augustin de [sharl oh-gy-stan duh] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1736–1806, French physicist and inventor.
  • charles simonyi — (person)   Microsoft programmer, most famously responsible for Hungarian Notation. Simonyi was born in Budapest in 1948, and for more than a decade was senior programmer at Microsoft in Redmond.
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chartophylacium — (in a medieval church) a place for the keeping of records and documents.
  • chaulmoogra oil — a brownish-yellow oil or soft fat expressed from the seeds of a chaulmoogra tree, used formerly in the treatment of leprosy and skin diseases.
  • chemoattractant — a chemical substance that provokes chemotaxis, esp one that causes a bacterium to move in the direction in which its concentration is increasing
  • chemoautotrophs — Plural form of chemoautotroph.
  • chemoautotrophy — the process of deriving energy through oxidizing inorganic chemical compounds, as opposed to photosynthesis
  • chemopsychiatry — the study and application of chemical substances in psychiatry
  • chemosterilants — Plural form of chemosterilant.
  • chloramphenicol — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used esp in treating typhoid fever and rickettsial infections: obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae or synthesized. Formula: C11H12N2O5Cl2
  • cholesterolemia — the presence of an abnormal amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • chondrosarcomas — Plural form of chondrosarcoma.
  • choriocarcinoma — a cancer that occurs during pregnancy in the uterus
  • christmas carol — a joyful hymn or religious song, celebrating the birth of Christ
  • chromatic scale — a twelve-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
  • chromatographer — A person skilled in chromatography or who operates a chromatograph.
  • chromatographic — (analytical chemistry) Of or pertaining to chromatography.
  • chromic acetate — a grayish-green, water-soluble powder, Cr(C 2 H 3 O 2) 3 ⋅H 2 O, used chiefly as a mordant in dyeing and printing textiles.
  • chromium-plated — having been plated with chromium
  • chromosome band — any of the transverse bands that appear on a chromosome after staining. The banding pattern is unique to each type of chromosome, allowing characterization
  • chromoxylograph — a coloured print created from printing with wooden blocks
  • cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
  • cinematographed — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinematographer — A cinematographer is a person who decides what filming techniques should be used during the shooting of a film.
  • cinematographic — a motion-picture projector.
  • cinemicrography — the making of a film through the lens of a microscope
  • circumambagious — in a round-about manner
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
  • circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
  • climate control — air conditioning in a building or vehicle
  • climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
  • codetermination — joint participation of management and employees or employees' trade union representatives in some decisions
  • coleman lantern — a gasoline lantern that gives a bright light, used by campers
  • collective farm — (chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
  • collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
  • college of arms — any of several institutions in the United Kingdom having a royal charter to deal with matters of heraldry, grant armorial bearings, record and trace genealogies, etc
  • combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
  • combat trousers — Combat trousers are large, loose trousers with lots of pockets.
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