11-letter words containing u, m
- circumflect — to emphasize with a circumflex accent
- circumfused — Simple past tense and past participle of circumfuse.
- circumfuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumfuse.
- circumlunar — around or revolving around the moon
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- circumsolar — surrounding or rotating around the sun
- circumspect — If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
- circumvents — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumvent.
- circumvolve — to (cause to) turn around
- cirrocumuli — Plural form of cirrocumulus.
- clamorously — full of, marked by, or of the nature of clamor.
- clinandrium — a cavity in the upper part of the column of an orchid flower that contains the anthers
- clostridium — any anaerobic typically rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Clostridium, occurring mainly in soil, but also in the intestines of humans and animals: family Bacillaceae. The genus includes the species causing botulism and tetanus
- club member — a person who is a member of a club
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- coat armour — a coat of arms
- coati-mundi — coati
- cochlearium — In Ancient Rome, a small spoon with a long tapering handle.
- code number — a number used to identify something
- colloquiums — Plural form of colloquium.
- collunarium — a solution for application in the nose; nose drops.
- collutorium — collutory.
- colour film — a film for use in cameras that produces coloured pictures
- colubriform — shaped like or resembling a member of the Colubridae family of snakes
- columbarium — a vault having niches for funeral urns
- columbiform — Having the form of a dove or pigeon.
- column inch — a unit of measurement for advertising space, one inch deep and one column wide
- columnarity — the fact or quality of being columnar
- columniated — having columns or arranged in columns
- columniform — Having the form of a column.
- columnistic — belonging or relating to a columnist
- combat duty — active service
- combustible — A combustible material or gas catches fire and burns easily.
- combustibly — In a combustible manner.
- combustions — Plural form of combustion.
- combustious — turbulent
- come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- come out in — If you come out in spots, you become covered with them.
- come out of — costs: be subtracted
- come up for — When someone or something comes up for consideration or action of some kind, the time arrives when they have to be considered or dealt with.
- comedy club — a club where stand-up comedians perform
- comeuppance — If you say that someone has got their comeuppance, you approve of the fact that they have been punished or have suffered for something wrong that they have done.
- comma fault — the use of a comma, rather than a semicolon, colon, or period, to separate related main clauses in the absence of a coordinating conjunction: often considered to be incorrect or undesirable, especially in formal writing.
- comment out — (programming) To surround a section of code with comment delimiters or to prefix every line in the section with a comment marker. This prevents it from being compiled or interpreted. It is often done to temporarily disable the code, e.g. during debugging or when the code is redundant or obsolete, but is being left in the source to make the intent of the active code clearer. The word "comment" is sometimes replaced with whatever syntax is used to mark comments in the language in question, e.g. "hash out" (shell script, Perl), "REM out" (BASIC), etc. Compare condition out.
- comminuting — Present participle of comminute.
- comminution — The action of reducing a material, an ore, to minute particles or fragments.
- commissural — Of or pertaining to a commissure.
- commissures — Plural form of commissure.
- common gull — a type of gull, Larus canus
- common noun — A common noun is a noun such as 'tree', 'water', or 'beauty' that is not the name of one particular person or thing. Compare proper noun.