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16-letter words containing om

  • combination room — (at Cambridge University) a common room
  • combination shot — a shot in pool in which the cue ball strikes at least one object ball before contact is made with the ball to be pocketed.
  • combination skin — facial skin that is dry in some areas and greasy in others
  • combined honours — (in British education) a degree course that includes more than one subject
  • combining weight — the atomic weight of an atom or radical divided by its valence.
  • come and get it! — the meal is ready!
  • come from behind — sport: win from a disadvantaged position
  • come full circle — to arrive back at one's starting point
  • come-to-bed eyes — a sexually alluring expression
  • come/bring alive — If a story or description comes alive, it becomes interesting, lively, or realistic. If someone or something brings it alive, they make it seem more interesting, lively, or realistic.
  • comedy of errors — an early comedy (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • command guidance — a method of controlling a missile during flight by transmitting information to it
  • command language — the language used to access a computer system
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commensurateness — The state or quality of being commensurate.
  • commercial break — A commercial break is the interval during a commercial television programme, or between programmes, during which advertisements are shown.
  • commercial paper — a short-term negotiable document, such as a bill of exchange, promissory note, etc, calling for the transference of a specified sum of money at a designated date
  • commercial pilot — an airplane pilot licensed to transport passengers, goods, etc.
  • commission agent — a person who sells goods and services for a fee
  • commission house — a brokerage firm that buys and sells for customers on a commission basis
  • commissionership — The role or office of commissioner.
  • commit to memory — to learn by heart; memorize
  • committee member — a member of a committee
  • committee of one — an individual person designated to function alone as a committee.
  • commodity dollar — the unit of a proposed system of currency, that would have a fluctuating gold value determined at regular intervals on the basis of an official index of the prices of key commodities
  • common knowledge — something widely or generally known
  • common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • common spoonbill — a wading bird of warm regions, Platalea leucorodia, having a long horizontally flattened bill: family Threskiornithidae, order Ciconiiformes
  • common-or-garden — You can use common-or-garden to describe something you think is ordinary and not special in any way.
  • commonplace book — a notebook in which quotations, poems, remarks, etc, that catch the owner's attention are entered
  • commonsensically — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
  • communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
  • communion sunday — any Sunday on which communion is administered.
  • communitarianism — A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities.
  • community action — campaigns undertaken by the people living in a particular place
  • community center — A community center is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
  • community centre — A community centre is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • community church — an independent or denominational church in a particular community.
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • community school — a school offering some nonacademic activities related to life in a particular community and often serving as a community centre
  • community spirit — willingness and desire to participate in activities that promote a community
  • community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
  • commutation-test — the act of substituting one thing for another; substitution; exchange.
  • commutator group — the subgroup of a given group, which consists of all the commutators in the group.
  • companion animal — an animal kept as a pet
  • companion ladder — a ladder that allows sailors to move up and down between the decks of the ship
  • companion volume — a book that complements another on a related subject, usually by the same author
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