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14-letter words containing r, o, m

  • breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
  • brickor mortis — a period of difficult times in the housing industry, where house prices and sales of properties are falling and credit for new purchases is difficult to obtain
  • bring onstream — To bring onstream a plant, mine, oilfield, etc. is to start production there.
  • bring sth home — To bring something home to someone means to make them understand how important or serious it is.
  • bring to terms — to reduce to submission; force to agree
  • broad-spectrum — effective against a wide variety of diseases or microorganisms
  • broom cupboard — a small cupboard or closet for storing brooms, mops, etc
  • brown stem rot — a disease of soybeans, characterized by brown discoloration and decay of internal tissues of the stem and leaf, caused by a fungus, Cephalosporium gregatum.
  • browntail moth — kind of moth
  • butterfly bomb — Military. a small, aerial, antipersonnel bomb with two folding wings that revolve, slowing the rate of descent and arming the fuze.
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cairngormstone — (mineral, rare) A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, found especially in the mountains of w Cairngorm in Scotland.
  • calendar month — A calendar month is one of the twelve months of the year.
  • 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.
  • camelopardalis — a N constellation between Ursa Major and Cassiopeia; the Giraffe
  • 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
  • camillo cavour — Camillo Benso di [kah-meel-law ben-saw dee] /kɑˈmil lɔ ˈbɛn sɔ di/ (Show IPA), 1810–61, Italian statesman: leader in the unification of Italy.
  • camp counselor — activities supervisor
  • camphor laurel — an Australian name for the camphor tree, now occurring in the wild in parts of Australia
  • camphoric acid — a whitish crystallizable substance derived from the oxidization of camphor, used in solution in medicine as an antiseptic. Formula: C10H16O4
  • campylobacters — Plural form of campylobacter.
  • campylotropous — (of an ovule) curved so that the micropyle and funiculus almost touch
  • caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
  • caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
  • caramelization — the conversion of sugar into caramel, caused by heating
  • carcinomatosis — a condition characterized by widespread dissemination of carcinomas or by a carcinoma that affects a large area
  • carcinosarcoma — a malignant tumour composed of carcinoma and sarcoma
  • cardiomyopathy — a disease of the heart muscle usually caused by a biochemical defect or a toxin such as alcohol
  • carpenter moth — any of various large moths of the family Cossidae, the larvae of which bore beneath and cause damage to tree bark
  • carpet bombing — Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft, with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area.
  • case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
  • castrametation — the art of designing and laying out an encampment
  • celto-germanic — having the characteristics of both the Celtic and Germanic peoples.
  • censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
  • center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
  • central moment — a moment about the center of a distribution, usually the mean.
  • centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
  • cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
  • ceremonial tea — a Japanese green tea made from choice shade-grown leaves that are cured by a steaming, drying, and powdering process: used in chanoyu.
  • champagne cork — a cork used in a champagne bottle
  • chemical toner — toner (def 4).
  • chemical-toner — a person or thing that tones.
  • chemoautotroph — an organism that obtains energy through chemoautotrophy
  • chemoreception — the response of a chemoreceptor to chemical stimuli
  • chemoreceptive — responsive to chemical stimuli
  • chemoreceptors — Plural form of chemoreceptor.
  • chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
  • chemosterilize — to sterilize (insects or other animals) with a chemosterilant.
  • chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
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