14-letter words containing r, o, m
- common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
- common soldier — a noncommissioned member of an army as opposed to a commissioned officer
- communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
- communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
- 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
- compact camera — a simple 35 mm snapshot camera not having interchangeable lenses or through-the-lens focusing but sometimes having automatic focusing, exposure, and winding
- companion star — companion1 (def 6).
- company doctor — a businessperson or accountant who specializes in turning ailing companies into profitable enterprises
- comparableness — The state or quality of being comparable; comparability.
- compass course — the direction of a ship's course based on its compass
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- complementizer — a word or morpheme that serves to introduce a complement clause or a reduced form of such a clause, as that in I wish that he would leave
- complete graph — A graph which has a link between every pair of nodes. A complete bipartite graph can be partitioned into two subsets of nodes such that each node is joined to every node in the other subset.
- complex number — any number of the form a + ib, where a and b are real numbers and i = √–1
- complexometric — as in complexometric indicator, an ionochromic dye that undergoes a definite colour change in presence of specific metal ions
- composing room — the room in a printing establishment in which type is set
- compound meter — any time signature in which the upper figure is a multiple of 3, as 6/8, 9/8, 12/8, etc.
- compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
- compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
- comprehendable — Misspelling of comprehensible.
- comprehendible — comprehensible
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- comprehensions — Plural form of comprehension.
- comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
- compressed air — air at a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure: used esp as a source of power for machines
- compromisation — The act of compromising.
- compromisingly — In a compromising manner.
- 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
- concertmasters — Plural form of concertmaster.
- concrete mixer — a device used for mixing cement, sand, gravel, or other substances to make concrete; it has a rotating drum in which the concrete is mixed
- concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
- conductometric — relating to the measurement of conductivity
- confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
- confirmational — providing proof or supporting evidence
- conformability — Conformableness.
- conformational — manner of formation; structure; form, as of a physical entity.
- conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
- conglomerating — Present participle of conglomerate.
- conglomeration — A conglomeration of things is a group of many different things, gathered together.
- conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate