12-letter words containing m, i, n, a, r
- chimneyboard — a partition or a cover to shut off a fireplace
- christianism — the beliefs and practices of Christians.
- circumbinary — (astronomy) Of, pertaining to, or having an orbit around a binary star.
- circumjacent — surrounding; lying around
- circumnutate — to rotate slightly on a central axis
- circumstance — The circumstances of a particular situation are the conditions which affect what happens.
- city manager — (in the US) an administrator hired by a municipal council to manage its affairs
- clay mineral — any of a group of minerals consisting of hydrated aluminium silicates: the major constituents of clays
- clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- cochairwoman — a woman who cochairs an organization
- coir matting — a floor covering or packing material made of coir
- columnarized — columnar (def 3).
- commanderies — the office or rank of a commander.
- commentarial — a series of comments, explanations, or annotations: a commentary on the Bible; news followed by a commentary.
- commentariat — the journalists and broadcasters who analyse and comment on current affairs
- commentaries — Plural form of commentary.
- common ratio — geometric ratio.
- communicator — a person who communicates, especially one skilled at conveying information, ideas, or policy to the public.
- compartition — (obsolete) The act of dividing into parts or compartments.
- compaternity — the relationship between the godparents of a child or between the godparents and the child's parents.
- comportation — (obsolete) The act of bringing together.
- compurgation — (formerly) a method of trial whereby a defendant might be acquitted if a sufficient number of persons swore to his innocence
- concremation — the cremation of multiple things or people at the same time, esp suttee
- confirmation — the act of confirming
- confirmative — serving to confirm; corroborative.
- confirmatory — confirming or tending to confirm
- conformality — (mathematics) The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
- conformation — the general shape or outline of an object; configuration
- conformative — (nonstandard) Tending to conform; conforming.
- conservatism — Conservatism is a political philosophy which believes that if changes need to be made to society, they should be made gradually. You can also refer to the political beliefs of a conservative party in a particular country as Conservatism.
- contaminator — to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.: to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- conterminant — enclosed within a common boundary
- conterminate — conterminous
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
- counterimage — a corresponding image
- craftmanship — Alternative form of craftsmanship.
- craniometric — the science of measuring skulls, chiefly to determine their characteristic relationship to sex, body type, or genetic population.
- craniotomies — Plural form of craniotomy.
- cremationist — a person who advocates cremation instead of burial of the dead.
- criminal law — the body of law dealing with the constitution of offences and the punishment of offenders
- criminalized — Simple past tense and past participle of criminalize.
- criminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of criminalize.
- criminalness — (rare, dated) The state or quality of being criminal.
- criminations — Plural form of crimination.
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- cryptogamian — of or relating to cryptogams
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cuprammonium — an ion of copper oxide used (in solution) in the manufacture of rayon and other man-made fibres
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.