14-letter words containing s, e, m, i, c
- campaign chest — money collected and set aside for use in a campaign, especially a political one; a campaign fund.
- caramelisation — (chiefly British) alternative spelling of caramelization.
- cardiac muscle — a specialized form of striated muscle occurring in the hearts of vertebrates.
- castrametation — the art of designing and laying out an encampment
- catcher's mitt — the glove worn by the catcher to protect the hands
- catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
- censure motion — a motion in a deliberative body to censure someone
- centenarianism — the situation or condition of being a centenarian
- centripetalism — the movement of things towards a centre
- cephalometrics — The measurement and analysis of the craniofacial area, especially as an aid to dental or orthodontic procedures.
- cervical smear — a smear of cellular material taken from the neck (cervix) of the uterus for detection of cancer
- chemical abuse — the habitual use of a mood-altering drug, alcoholic beverage, etc.
- 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.
- chemosynthesis — the formation of organic material by certain bacteria using energy derived from simple chemical reactions
- chemosynthetic — That utilizes chemosynthesis.
- chemotherapies — Plural form of chemotherapy.
- chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
- chest-thumping — the act or practice of boasting.
- child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
- chimney breast — A chimney breast is the part of a wall in a room which is built out round a chimney.
- 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.
- chinese empire — China as ruled by the emperors until the establishment of the republic in 1911–12
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- chrestomathies — Plural form of chrestomathy.
- christian name — Some people refer to their first names as their Christian names.
- christmas cake — A Christmas cake is a special cake that is eaten at Christmas in Britain and some other countries.
- christmas fern — an evergreen fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, having dense clusters of stiff fronds growing from a central rootstock.
- christmas rose — an evergreen ranunculaceous plant, Helleborus niger, of S Europe and W Asia, with white or pinkish winter-blooming flowers
- christmas seal — a decorative stamp sold by some charitable organizations during the Christmas season to raise money.
- christmas time — the period around Christmas
- christmas tree — A Christmas tree is a fir tree, or an artificial tree that looks like a fir tree, which people put in their houses at Christmas and decorate with coloured lights and ornaments.
- christmasberry — toyon.
- chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
- chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
- ciliary muscle — the smooth muscle in the ciliary body, the action of which affects the accommodation of the eye.
- cinnamon sedge — an angler's name for a small caddis fly, Limnephilus lunatus, having pale hind wings, that frequents sluggish water
- cinnamon stone — essonite
- circumbendibus — a circumlocution
- circumferences — Plural form of circumference.
- circumscissile — (of the dry dehiscent fruits of certain plants) opening completely by a transverse split
- circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
- circumspective — given to or marked by circumspection; watchful; cautious: His behavior was circumspective.
- cleistothecium — (in certain ascomycetous fungi) a closed, globose ascocarp from which the ascospores are released only by its rupture or decay.
- cleptomaniacs' — kleptomania.
- clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
- closed primary — a primary in which only members of a particular party may vote
- colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
- coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
- combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.