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13-letter words containing a, u, t, o, m

  • badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
  • bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
  • bioaccumulate — (of substances, esp toxins) to build up within the tissues of organisms
  • boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • 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.
  • carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
  • cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
  • 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-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
  • caution money — a sum of money deposited as security for good conduct, against possible debts, etc
  • chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
  • chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
  • circumorbital — (anatomy) Around the eye.
  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
  • come a stumer — to crash financially
  • commaundement — Obsolete spelling of commandment.
  • comme il faut — correct or correctly
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
  • communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
  • communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
  • communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
  • communicating — making or having a direct connection from one room to another
  • communication — Communications are the systems and processes that are used to communicate or broadcast information, especially by means of electricity or radio waves.
  • communicative — Someone who is communicative talks to people, for example about their feelings, and tells people things.
  • communicators — Plural form of communicator.
  • communicatory — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • communisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of communization.
  • communitarian — a member of a communist community
  • communization — The act or process of communizing.
  • commutability — The quality of being commutable.
  • commutatively — of or relating to commutation, exchange, substitution, or interchange.
  • commutativity — the property of being commutative
  • compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
  • computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
  • computational — Computational means using computers.
  • computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
  • concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
  • conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
  • condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
  • connumeration — the act of counting together
  • consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
  • contextualism — (in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made.
  • cosmeceutical — a cosmetic that has, or is claimed to have, pharmaceutical properties
  • costimulation — Alternative spelling of co-stimulation.
  • costimulatory — Of or pertaining to co-stimulation.
  • costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
  • costume party — A costume party or costume ball is a party at which the guests try to look like famous people or people from history, from stories, or from particular professions.
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