13-letter words containing c, a, u, s
- lace-up shoes — shoes which are fastened with laces
- lactobacillus — any long, slender, rod-shaped, anaerobic bacterium of the genus Lactobacillus, that produces large amounts of lactic acid in the fermentation of carbohydrates, especially in milk.
- lapsus calami — a slip of the pen.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
- linguistician — linguist (def 1).
- liquefacients — Plural form of liquefacient.
- liquefactions — Plural form of liquefaction.
- lucrativeness — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
- lunar caustic — silver nitrate, AgNO 3 , especially in a sticklike mold, used to cauterize tissues.
- lunar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- macías nguema — a former name of Bioko.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- macrovascular — Of or pertaining to the larger blood vessels.
- madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
- magnoliaceous — belonging to the plant family Magnoliaceae.
- magnus effect — the thrust on a cylinder rotating about its axis while in motion in a fluid, the thrust being perpendicular to the relative motion of the cylinder in the fluid.
- main sequence — a narrow band in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram in which 90 percent of all observed stars are plotted.
- make-up class — a course of teaching in the application of make-up
- maliciousness — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- manicure case — a case for holding small tools designed to care for the fingernails
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- manufacturers — Plural form of manufacturer.
- marcus garvey — Marcus (Moziah) [moh-zahy-uh] /moʊˈzaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1887–1940, Jamaican black-rights activist in the U.S. (1916–27): advocated emigration of black Americans to Africa.
- mariculturist — One who engages in mariculture.
- masculineness — The state or condition of being masculine.
- masculinities — Plural form of masculinity.
- mass spectrum — a spectrum of charged particles, arranged in order of mass or mass-to-charge ratios.
- massachusetts — a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 8257 sq. mi. (21,385 sq. km). Capital: Boston. Abbreviation: MA (for use with zip code), Mass.
- mayor's court — a city court presided over by a mayor.
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- megastructure — a very large, usually high-rise building or a complex of such buildings used for many purposes, as for apartments, offices, stores, theaters, and athletic facilities.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
- mercurialness — Quality of being mercurial; mercuriality.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- mesocephalous — Alternative form of mesocephalic.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metaheuristic — An experimental heuristic method for solving a general class of computational problems by combining user procedures in the hope of obtaining a more efficient or robust procedure.
- microaneurysm — An extremely small aneurysm.
- microcapsules — Plural form of microcapsule.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.