13-letter words containing o, a, t, m
- cinnamon teal — a small, freshwater, wild duck, Anas cyanoptera, of North and South America, having chiefly cinnamon-red plumage.
- circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
- 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 to fame — Someone's claim to fame is something quite important or interesting that they have done or that is connected with them.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- 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.
- climatography — an account of a region's climate
- climatologist — A climatologist is someone who studies climates.
- cliometrician — An expert at cliometrics.
- clotted cream — Clotted cream is very thick cream made by heating milk gently and taking the cream off the top. It is made mainly in the south west of England.
- co-management — the practice of managing something jointly
- coal merchant — a person engaged in the purchase and sale of coal for profit
- 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
- colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
- combat jacket — a military-style jacket, usually khaki, olive green, or with camouflage colours
- combat troops — troops who are engaged in fighting
- 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 a stumer — to crash financially
- come what may — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- commaundement — Obsolete spelling of commandment.
- comme il faut — correct or correctly
- commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
- commemoration — the act or an instance of commemorating
- commemorative — A commemorative object or event is intended to make people remember a particular event or person.
- commemoratory — commemorative (def 1).
- commendations — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
- commentations — Plural form of commentation.
- commercial at — (character) "@". ASCII code 64. Common names: at sign, at, strudel. Rare: each, vortex, whorl, INTERCAL: whirlpool, cyclone, snail, ape, cat, rose, cabbage, amphora. ITU-T: commercial at. The @ sign is used in an electronic mail address to separate the local part from the hostname. This dates back to July 1972 when Ray Tomlinson was designing the first[?] e-mail program. It is ironic that @ has become a trendy mark of Internet awareness since it is a very old symbol, derived from the latin preposition "ad" (at). Giorgio Stabile, a professor of history in Rome, has traced the symbol back to the Italian Renaissance in a Roman mercantile document signed by Francesco Lapi on 1536-05-04. In Dutch it is called "apestaartje" (little ape-tail), in German "affenschwanz" (ape tail). The French name is "arobase". In Spain and Portugal it denotes a weight of about 25 pounds, the weight and the symbol are called "arroba". Italians call it "chiocciola" (snail). See @-party.
- commercialist — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
- commerciality — commercial quality or character; ability to produce a profit: Distributors were concerned about the film's commerciality compared with last year's successful pictures.
- commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commiseration — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commiserative — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commissariats — Plural form of commissariat.
- common factor — a number or quantity that is a factor of each member of a group of numbers or quantities
- common market — A common market is an organization of countries who have agreed to trade freely with each other and make common decisions about industry and agriculture.
- common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.