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18-letter words containing r, i, m

  • cerebral dominance — the normal tendency for one half of the brain, usually the left cerebral hemisphere in right-handed people, to exercise more control over certain functions (e.g. handedness and language) than the other
  • certification mark — a mark that certifies the origin, material, quality, mode of manufacture, accuracy, or other characteristic of a product or service: “UL” is a certification mark for appliances meeting the safety standards of Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
  • chambered nautilus — nautilus (def 1).
  • charismatic church — a church that emphasizes communal prayer and the charismatic gifts of speaking in tongues, healing, etc
  • chemical pregnancy — a pregnancy that is confirmed by a pregnancy test but not by clinical signs and terminates before clinical signs can be observed.
  • chinese watermelon — a tropical Asian vine, Benincasa hispida, of the gourd family, having a brown, hairy stem, large, solitary, yellow flowers, and white, melonlike fruit.
  • cholangiocarcinoma — (pathology) Cancer of the bile duct.
  • christian democrat — a member or supporter of a Christian Democratic party
  • christian reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Christian Reformed Church) organized in the U.S. in 1857 by groups that had seceded from the Dutch Reformed Church.
  • christmas shopping — shopping especially for Christmas presents, but also for Christmas food and drink, and all the other things required over the Christmas period.
  • christmas stocking — A Christmas stocking is a long sock which children hang up on Christmas Eve. During the night, parents fill the stocking with small presents.
  • chromatic printing — printing from blocks or types inked with various colours
  • chromatic semitone — the pitch difference between one note and its sharpened or flattened equivalent
  • chromolithographer — One engaged in chromolithography.
  • chromolithographic — Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.
  • chronic alcoholism — long-term alcohol addiction
  • circular dichroism — selective absorption of one of the two possible circular polarizations of light.
  • circulating medium — currency serving as a medium of exchange
  • circulatory system — the system concerned with the transport of blood and lymph, consisting of the heart, blood vessels, lymph vessels, etc
  • circumnavigational — Relating to circumnavigation.
  • citizen journalism — the involvement of non-professionals in reporting news, esp in blogs and other websites
  • classical armenian — the oldest form of the Armenian language according to written sources, in use from the 5th to the 18th century.
  • climbing hydrangea — a woody vine, Hydrangea anomala, of eastern Asia, having shiny, egg-shaped leaves and flat-topped white flower clusters, and climbing by aerial rootlets.
  • clobbering machine — pressure to conform with accepted standards
  • collision diameter — the distance between the centers of two colliding molecules when at their closest point of approach.
  • comb-footed spider — any of numerous spiders constituting the family Theridiidae, having a comblike row of bristles on the tarsi of the hind legs.
  • combination square — an adjustable device for carpenters, used as a try square, miter square, level, etc.
  • combined operation — a military operation carried out jointly by allied forces
  • combustion chamber — an enclosed space in which combustion takes place, such as the space above the piston in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine or the chambers in a gas turbine or rocket engine in which fuel and oxidant burn
  • combustion furnace — a furnace used in the laboratory to carry out elemental analysis of organic compounds
  • come to grips with — If you come to grips with a problem, you consider it seriously, and start taking action to deal with it.
  • come to terms with — If you come to terms with something difficult or unpleasant, you learn to accept and deal with it.
  • commander in chief — Also, Commander in Chief. the supreme commander of the armed forces of a nation or, sometimes, of several allied nations: The president is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force.
  • commander-in-chief — A commander-in-chief is a senior officer who is in charge of all the forces in a particular area.
  • commanding officer — A commanding officer is an officer who is in charge of a military unit.
  • commando operation — a major operation for treatment of cancer of the head and neck, involving removal of many facial structures and subsequent surgical reconstruction
  • commedia dell'arte — a form of popular comedy developed in Italy during the 16th to 18th centuries, with stock characters such as Punchinello, Harlequin, and Columbine, in situations improvised from a plot outline
  • commercial attache — an attaché in an embassy or legation representing the commercial interests of his or her country.
  • commercial college — a college providing tuition in commercial skills, such as shorthand and book-keeping
  • commercial vehicle — a vehicle for carrying goods or (less commonly) passengers
  • common denominator — In mathematics, a common denominator is a number which can be divided exactly by all the denominators in a group of fractions.
  • common wintergreen — a plant (Pyrola minor) of temperate and arctic regions, having rounded leaves and small pink globose flowers: family Pyrolaceae
  • communication cord — a cord or chain in a train which may be pulled by a passenger to stop the train in an emergency
  • community property — the joint ownership of the property of a husband and wife
  • comodoro rivadavia — a city in E Argentina.
  • comparative method — a body of procedures and criteria used by linguists to determine whether and how two or more languages are related and to reconstruct forms of their hypothetical parent language.
  • comparison shopper — an employee of a retail store hired to visit competing stores in order to gather information regarding styles, quality, prices, etc., of merchandise offered by competitors.
  • compartmentalizing — Present participle of compartmentalize.
  • compensation award — an amount of money awarded as compensation in a court case
  • compensation order — (in Britain) the requirement of a court that an offender pay compensation for injury, loss, or damage resulting from an offence, either in preference to or as well as a fine
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