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14-letter words containing t, o, r, m, e

  • 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.
  • chemotherapist — One who administers chemotherapy.
  • child molester — someone who sexually violates a child, esp someone legally convicted of this
  • chlorochromate — (inorganic chemistry) The univalent anion CrClO3-, or any salt containing this anion.
  • cholecystogram — the production of x-ray photographs of the gallbladder following administration of a radiopaque substance that is secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
  • cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
  • chrestomathies — Plural form of chrestomathy.
  • christmas rose — an evergreen ranunculaceous plant, Helleborus niger, of S Europe and W Asia, with white or pinkish winter-blooming flowers
  • chromatophores — Plural form of chromatophore.
  • chrome leather — leather tanned with chrome.
  • chromium steel — a very hard alloy steel containing chromium
  • chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
  • chronometrical — a timepiece or timing device with a special mechanism for ensuring and adjusting its accuracy, for use in determining longitude at sea or for any purpose where very exact measurement of time is required.
  • cinametography — Misspelling of cinematography.
  • cinematography — Cinematography is the technique of making films for the cinema.
  • circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
  • circumspection — Circumspection is cautious behaviour and a refusal to take risks.
  • clitoridectomy — the surgical removal of the clitoris: a form of female circumcision, esp practised as a religious or ethnic rite
  • co-trimoxazole — an antibiotic consisting of a mixture of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole (a sulfa drug): used esp to treat infections of the urinary tract and lungs (as in AIDS)
  • colt distemper — distemper1 (def 1b).
  • combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
  • come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
  • come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
  • come on strong — If someone comes on strong, they make their intentions or feelings clear in an excessive or aggressive way.
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • comfort letter — an informal statement assuring the financial soundness or backing of a company.
  • commemorations — Plural form of commemoration.
  • 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.
  • commentary box — the place where the commentators on a sporting event sit
  • commentatorial — relating to commentators or the creation of commentaries
  • commercial art — graphic art for commercial uses such as advertising, packaging, etc
  • commiserations — Plural form of commiseration.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • complexometric — as in complexometric indicator, an ionochromic dye that undergoes a definite colour change in presence of specific metal ions
  • 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.
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