15-letter words containing o, n, i, u, m
- coast mountains — a mountain range in Canada, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Waddington, 4043 m (13 266 ft)
- coconut matting — a form of coarse matting made from the fibrous husk of the coconut
- combat neurosis — battle fatigue.
- combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
- combustion tube — a tube of heat-resistant glass, silica, or ceramic, in which a substance can be reduced, as in a combustion furnace
- come up against — If you come up against a problem or difficulty, you are faced with it and have to deal with it.
- come up smiling — to recover cheerfully from misfortune
- common multiple — an integer or polynomial that is a multiple of each integer or polynomial in a group
- communal aerial — a television or radio receiving aerial from which received signals are distributed by cable to several outlets
- communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
- communicational — relating to or characterized by communication
- communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- communion cloth — corporal3 .
- communion plate — a flat plate held under the chin of a communicant in order to catch any fragments of the consecrated Host
- communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
- communist china — China, People's Republic of.
- communist party — (in non-Communist countries) a political party advocating Communism
- communistically — In a communistic manner.
- community chest — a fund raised by voluntary contribution for local welfare activities
- compendiousness — The state or quality of being compendious.
- compound animal — any animal, such as most hydroids, corals, and bryozoans, composed of a number of individuals produced by budding from a single parent and usually so fused together that no demarcation is clearly distinguishable
- compound engine — a steam engine in which the steam is expanded in more than one stage, first in a high-pressure cylinder and then in one or more low-pressure cylinders
- computationally — from a computational point of view
- computer dating — the use of computers by dating agencies to match their clients
- computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
- computerisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of computerization.
- computerization — to control, perform, process, or store (a system, operation, or information) by means of or in an electronic computer or computers.
- conductiometric — conductometric
- 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.
- 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.
- contrast medium — a radiopaque substance, such as barium sulphate, used to increase the contrast of an image in radiography
- corynebacterium — any of various bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium, including various animal and plant pathogens and animal parasites
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- cum grano salis — with a grain of salt; not too literally