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15-letter words containing o, m, i

  • confidence game — A confidence game is the same as a confidence trick.
  • conglomerations — Plural form of conglomeration.
  • conservationism — A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources.
  • constructionism — an educational theory holding that children learn most effectively when actively doing, or constructing, things, rather than being taught information in a traditional schooling method
  • consulting room — A doctor's or therapist's consulting room is the room in which they see their patients.
  • consumer choice — the range of competing products and services from which a consumer can choose
  • consumer credit — Consumer credit is money that is lent to people by organizations such as banks, building societies, and shops so that they can buy things.
  • consumer strike — a boycott of a product by consumers, often in protest over a raise in its price.
  • consumption tax — a tax, as a sales tax, levied on consumer goods or services at the time of sale.
  • contemplatively — given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
  • contemporaneity — living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
  • contemptibility — The quality of being contemptible.
  • continuous-form — of or relating to paper, blank forms, checks, etc., supplied in a folded stack or roll to a device, as a computer printer, generally with perforations between sheets for later separation and often with detachable punched edges used to advance the sheets through the device.
  • contrary motion — melodic motion in which one part rises in pitch while the other descends.
  • contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
  • conventionalism — advocacy of or conformity to that which is established
  • conversationism — a colloquialism
  • cooley's anemia — a form of thalassemia characterized by severe anemia, growth retardation, etc. and usually resulting in death at an early age: the genes causing this condition are inherited from both parents
  • copying machine — a machine that makes copies of original documents, especially by xerography.
  • core curriculum — a group of subjects that all students in a certain type of school or of a certain age must study
  • corporate image — the way an organization is presented to or perceived by its members and the public
  • corpus striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter situated in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
  • corticothalamic — Of or pertaining to the cortex and the thalamus.
  • corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
  • cosmopolitanism — free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.
  • cosmopolitanize — to make cosmopolitan.
  • costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
  • coulometrically — in a coulometric manner
  • coumarone resin — any of the group of thermosetting resins derived by the polymerization of mixtures of coumarone and indene: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints, varnishes, and printing inks.
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • countercampaign — a campaign responding to another campaign
  • countercharming — Present participle of countercharm.
  • counterclaimant — a claim made to offset another claim, especially one made by the defendant in a legal action.
  • counterclaiming — Present participle of counterclaim.
  • countermarching — Present participle of countermarch.
  • counting number — natural number
  • country bumpkin — an awkward, simple, rustic person
  • court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
  • courting mirror — a small mirror of c1800 having a border and cresting of glass painted with leaves and flowers in imitation of a Chinese style.
  • craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
  • credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
  • criminal record — a list of a person's criminal convictions
  • criminalisation — (chiefly, British) Alternative form of criminalization.
  • criminalization — to make punishable as a crime: To reduce the graffiti on subway cars, he wants to criminalize the selling of spray paint to minors.
  • crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
  • critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
  • cromolyn sodium — a substance, C 23 H 14 Na 2 O 11 , used as a preventive inhalant for bronchial asthma and hay fever.
  • croque-monsieur — a sandwich filled with ham and cheese, either dipped in egg batter or buttered on the outside, and toasted or grilled
  • cryptosporidium — any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Cryptosporidium, species of which are parasites of birds and animals and can be transmitted to humans, causing severe abdominal pain and diarrhoea (cryptosporidiosis)
  • cucumber mosaic — a viral disease of cucumbers and many other plants, characterized by a mosaic pattern and distortion of leaves and fruits.
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