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13-letter words containing a, s, m

  • boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
  • bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
  • boston matrix — a two-dimensional matrix, used in planning the business strategy of a large organization, that identifies those business units in the organization that generate cash and those that use it
  • bowman's root — an eastern U.S. plant, Gillenia trifoliata, of the rose family, having terminal clusters of white flowers.
  • brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
  • breast timber — wale1 (def 5).
  • breast-timber — a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip; welt.
  • brinksmanship — the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, especially by creating diplomatic crises.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • built-up mast — a wooden mast formed of several shaped, longitudinal pieces joined together.
  • bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
  • bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
  • burmese glass — an American art glass of the late 19th century, ranging from greenish-yellow to pink.
  • burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
  • cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
  • caesaropapism — the theory that the state should have authority over the church in ecclesiastical matters; Erastianism
  • caesium clock — a type of atomic clock that uses the frequency of radiation absorbed in changing the spin of electrons in caesium atoms
  • call sb names — If someone calls you names, they insult you by saying unpleasant things to you or about you.
  • cambyses (ii) — died 522 b.c.; king of Persia (529-522): son of Cyrus the Great
  • camerapersons — Plural form of cameraperson.
  • campanologist — the principles or art of making bells, bell ringing, etc.
  • camphoraceous — similar to camphor
  • camping stool — a stool which is suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up
  • camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
  • campus police — police officers, security guards or students employed by a college or university to patrol the campus and to protect students, staff, and visitors
  • canada balsam — a yellow transparent resin obtained from the balsam fir. Because its refractive index is similar to that of glass, it is used as an adhesive in optical devices and as a mounting medium for microscope specimens
  • cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
  • capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
  • carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
  • casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
  • cashew family — the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.
  • cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
  • cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • cat's pajamas — someone or something wonderful or remarkable.
  • 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
  • catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
  • centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
  • ceremonialism — A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism.
  • ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
  • cerium metals — the metals lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, and samarium, forming a sub-group of the lanthanides
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • chain measure — measurement of distance using a chain 66 feet (20 meters) long, of which one link equals 7.9 inches (20.1 cm).
  • chairmanships — Plural form of chairmanship.
  • chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
  • championships — Plural form of championship.
  • chapman stick — an electronically amplified musical instrument with ten or twelve strings and a fretted neck, which is played by striking the strings against the frets with the fingers
  • chase mortise — a mortise having one inclined narrow side.
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