14-letter words containing r, e, c, u, m
- 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.
- common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
- community care — help available to persons living in their own homes, rather than services provided in residential institutions
- 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.
- 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.
- consumer group — an organization that campaigns for the rights of consumers
- contact number — a person's telephone number
- contemperature — the action of mixing together harmoniously or proportionately
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- counter jumper — a sales assistant in a shop
- counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- countereconomy — an economy operating simultaneously with or in opposition to the established economic system.
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- cream-coloured — cream in colour
- crimen injuria — an action that injures the dignity of another person, esp use of racially offensive language
- croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
- croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cruise missile — A cruise missile is a missile which carries a nuclear warhead and which is guided by a computer.
- crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
- culture medium — a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown
- cumberland gap — pass in the Cumberland Plateau, at the juncture of the Va., Ky., & Tenn. borders: c. 1,700 ft (518 m) high
- cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.