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14-letter words containing o, u, e, m

  • cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
  • calumniousness — Calumny.
  • camera obscura — a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a convex lens in an aperture
  • camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • campanulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Campanulaceae, a family of temperate and subtropical plants, including the campanulas, having bell-shaped nodding flowers
  • camphor laurel — an Australian name for the camphor tree, now occurring in the wild in parts of Australia
  • censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
  • check-out time — the time by which one has to check out of a hotel
  • chemoautotroph — an organism that obtains energy through chemoautotrophy
  • cholera morbus — gastroenteritis
  • chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
  • church of rome — the Roman Catholic Church
  • circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
  • clouded magpie — a geometrid moth, Abraxas sylvata, that is paler than the magpie moth
  • columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
  • come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
  • come to nought — If you try to do something but your efforts are not successful, you can say that your efforts come to nought.
  • command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
  • 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.
  • commodiousness — The state or quality of being commodious.
  • common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
  • communion wine — the wine used in the communion service
  • communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
  • community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
  • community home — a home provided by a local authority for children who cannot remain with parents or relatives, or be placed with foster parents
  • community life — the life and activities of a community
  • compass course — the direction of a ship's course based on its compass
  • complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
  • compound meter — any time signature in which the upper figure is a multiple of 3, as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, etc.
  • compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
  • compute server — (computer, parallel)   A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
  • computer crime — crime perpetrated on or requiring the use of computers
  • computer error — an error attributed to the action of a computer
  • computer model — a model of a process or object created on a computer
  • computer virus — virus
  • computer-aided — done or improved by computer
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
  • computerphobic — a computerphobe
  • concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
  • conductometric — relating to the measurement of conductivity
  • conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
  • consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
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