14-letter words containing t, r, o, m
- cornelis tromp — Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
- cosmochemistry — the study of the chemical composition of the celestial bodies
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- counter jumper — a sales assistant in a shop
- counter-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- counter-gambit — a countermove
- countercharmed — Simple past tense and past participle of countercharm.
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- countereconomy — an economy operating simultaneously with or in opposition to the established economic system.
- counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- countermarched — Simple past tense and past participle of countermarch.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- counterprogram — to schedule (a broadcast on radio or television) to compete with one on another station.
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- covered market — an indoor market
- crimean gothic — a form of the Gothic language that survived in the Crimea after the extinction of Gothic elsewhere in Europe, known only from a list of words and phrases recorded in the 16th century.
- criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
- criminologists — Plural form of criminologist.
- croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
- cross-platform — (software, hardware) A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
- crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- cryptorchidism — a congenital condition in which one or both testicles fail to descend into the scrotum
- crystallomancy — a form of divination using crystals or a crystal ball
- currant tomato — a Peruvian plant, Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium, of the nightshade family, having numerous bell-shaped, yellow flowers and small, currantlike, red fruit.
- customer's man — registered representative.
- customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- cyberterrorism — the illegal use of computers and the internet to achieve some goal
- cytophotometer — an instrument for examining cells by determining the intensity or wavelengths of light transmitted through them.
- cytophotometry — the use of a photometer in order to study the chemical compounds of a cell
- damage control — Damage control is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
- decrementation — The act or process of decrementing.
- democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- demonstrations — Plural form of demonstration.
- demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
- demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
- demoralization — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.
- demythologizer — a person who removes mythical elements from something
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatographia — a common medical condition in which lightly rubbing the skin produces red, often raised, temporary marks
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography