13-letter words containing a, m, e, s
- criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
- cross-examine — When a lawyer cross-examines someone during a trial or hearing, he or she questions them about the evidence that they have already given.
- cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
- custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste
- customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- customer care — the work of looking after customers and ensuring their satisfaction with one's business and its goods or services
- 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.
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- 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.
- damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
- damaged goods — a person considered to be less than perfect psychologically, as a result of a traumatic experience
- 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)
- damson cheese — thick damson jam
- danse macabre — dance of death
- dar es salaam — the chief port of Tanzania, on the Indian Ocean: capital of German East Africa (1891–1916); capital of Tanzania until 1983 when it was officially replaced by Dodoma, though still retaining some functions; university (1963). Pop: 2 683 000 (2005 est)
- de-stigmatize — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- 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.
- decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
- deemphasizing — Present participle of deemphasize.
- defamiliarise — Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
- delimitations — Plural form of delimitation.
- demandingness — the quality of being demanding
- demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- dematerialise — Alternative spelling of dematerialize.
- demilitarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demilitarize.
- demimondaines — Plural form of demimondaine.
- demineralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demineralize.
- 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
- denmark vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
- 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
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- 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
- diadem spider — a common Eurasian spider, Araneus diadematus, that constructs orb webs: family Argiopidae