13-letter words containing a, d, m, s, t
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- christmas day — Christmas Day is the 25th of December, when Christmas is celebrated.
- christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- commendations — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- compactedness — the state of being compacted
- condemnations — Plural form of condemnation.
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- côtes-d'armor — a department of W France, on the N coast of Brittany. Capital: St Brieuc. Pop: 553 969 (2003 est). Area: 6878 sq km (2656 sq miles)
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste
- customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
- dalton system — a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- de-stigmatize — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
- decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- delimitations — Plural form of delimitation.
- dematerialise — Alternative spelling of dematerialize.
- demilitarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demilitarize.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- demonstrating — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- demonstration — A demonstration is a march or gathering which people take part in to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- demonstrators — a person or thing that demonstrates.
- demonstratory — having the quality of demonstrating
- denominations — Plural form of denomination.
- dermatologies — Plural form of dermatology.
- dermatologist — A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the study of skin and the treatment of skin diseases.
- dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- determinators — determiner (def 1).
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dexamethasone — a type of powerful steroid, used as an anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- diamond state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
- diaphragmitis — inflammation of the diaphragm, phrenitis
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
- dim statement — (programming) (From "dimension") A keyword in most versions of the BASIC programming language that declares the size of an array. E.g. DIM A(100) declares a one-dimensional array with 101 numeric elements (including A(0)). Dim DepartmentNumber As Integer which declares a single (scalar) variable of type Integer.
- dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- disaccustomed — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccustom.