14-letter words containing o, y, a, m
- bubble company — a company whose shares are highly valued and then plummet
- by acclamation — by an overwhelming majority without a ballot
- by appointment — If something can be done by appointment, people can arrange in advance to do it at a particular time.
- by implication — If you say that something is the case by implication, you mean that a statement, event, or situation implies that it is the case.
- cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
- caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
- campeachy wood — wood from the Central American tree Haematoxylon campechianum
- campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
- campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
- cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
- china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
- chlamydospores — Plural form of chlamydospore.
- cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- chromatography — the technique of separating and analysing the components of a mixture of liquids or gases by selective adsorption in, for example, a column of powder (column chromatography) or on a strip of paper (paper chromatography)
- chromodynamics — a theory that describes how gluons and their forces bind quarks together to form protons, neutrons, etc.
- cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
- cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
- circumgyration — the act of rolling, turning, or travelling about
- circumgyratory — characterized by circumgyration
- circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
- circumrotatory — Turning, rolling, or whirling round.
- cisnormativity — (LGBT, neologism) The assumption that all human beings are cisgender, i.e. have a gender identity which matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
- closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
- come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
- come one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
- commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
- commentary box — the place where the commentators on a sporting event sit
- commodity loan — a loan made to producers of commodities, whereby the trader buys commodities on credit and returns the loan after the commodities are sold
- community card — (in certain card games) a card that every player can use to form a hand in combination with the cards that he or she alone has been dealt
- community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
- compactibility — capable of being compacted: compactible rubbish.
- company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compostability — The quality of being compostable.
- compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- conformability — Conformableness.
- contemporarily — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
- cosmogonically — In a cosmogonic manner.
- cosmologically — In a cosmological way.
- countably many — countable
- coxcombicality — the quality of being coxcombical
- cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- crystallomancy — a form of divination using crystals or a crystal ball
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyanocobalamin — a complex red crystalline compound, containing cyanide and cobalt and occurring in liver: lack of it in the tissues leads to pernicious anaemia. Formula: C63H88O14N14PCo