14-letter words containing a, c, r, o, m, i
- counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
- countermanding — Present participle of countermand.
- coup de maitre — a masterstroke; stroke of genius
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- crepe marocain — a crepe fabric made of silk, wool, or rayon, or a combination of these fibers, and distinguished by a strong rib effect, used in the manufacture of dresses and women's suits; a heavy Canton crepe.
- 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.
- criminological — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
- 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-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
- cyanobacterium — (biology) Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria, once known as blue-green algae.
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decontaminator — A device that decontaminates.
- decrementation — The act or process of decrementing.
- democratically — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- dermatoglyphic — relating to skin markings (such as fingerprints) or the study thereof
- dermatographic — relating to dermatography
- dermatological — the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases.
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
- dichromic acid — an unstable dibasic oxidizing acid known only in solution and in the form of dichromate salts. Formula: H2Cr2O7
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- diffractometer — an instrument that is used to study atomic crystal structure by measuring the angles at which x-rays, neutrons, or electrons are diffracted by matter.
- diffractometry — The elucidation of the structures of crystalline materials by the use of X-ray diffraction.
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- discrimination — an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.
- discriminators — Plural form of discriminator.
- discriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- domestic rates — a type of taxation system used to fund local government
- draconic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- dramatic irony — irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
- dynamoelectric — of or concerned with the interconversion of mechanical and electrical energy
- echocardiogram — a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
- econometrician — Someone who studies economies with a view to mathematics.
- ectrodactylism — the congenital absence of part or all of one or more fingers or toes.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- electrodynamic — (physics) that involves the movement of electric charges.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- enharmonically — (music) Adjectival form of enharmonic.
- ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.