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13-letter words containing e, s, t, i, m

  • antimechanist — opposed to mechanistic philosophy
  • antimodernism — modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
  • antimodernist — opposed to modernism
  • antireformers — Plural form of antireformer.
  • antisepticism — the treatment of sepsis using antiseptics
  • antisubmarine — (of weapons, missiles, etc) designed to combat or destroy submarines
  • antisymmetric — (of a relation) never holding between a pair of arguments x and y when it holds between y and x except when x = y, as "…is no younger than…"
  • antiterrorism — opposed to or acting against terrorism; counterterrorist
  • apogeotropism — negative geotropism, as shown by plant stems
  • apologeticism — An instance of the use of apologetics.
  • apothegmatise — to speak in apothegms
  • arm wrestling — a contest in which two people sit facing each other each with one elbow resting on a table, clasp hands, and each tries to force the other's arm flat onto the table while keeping his own elbow touching the table
  • armistice day — the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I, on Nov 11, 1918, now kept on Remembrance Sunday
  • armstand dive — a dive starting from a handstand at the end of a springboard or a platform with the diver's back to the water.
  • ascertainment — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • aschelminthes — a major grouping (formerly a phylum) of small-to-microscopic pseudocoelomate organisms, as the rotifers, nematodes, and gastrotriches, all of which are now classified as separate phyla.
  • assembly time — the time required for a computer to translate symbolic computer language into machine-language instructions.
  • asti spumante — a sweet, sparkling Italian white wine with a muscat flavor.
  • astonishments — Plural form of astonishment.
  • atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • augmentations — Plural form of augmentation.
  • autoeroticism — the arousal and use of one's own body as a sexual object, as through masturbation
  • automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
  • autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
  • bantamweights — Plural form of bantamweight.
  • basidiomycete — any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts
  • beam splitter — a system that divides a beam of light, electrons, etc, into two or more paths
  • bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
  • bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
  • belief system — The belief system of a person or society is the set of beliefs that they have about what is right and wrong and what is true and false.
  • benjamin westBenjamin, 1738–1820, U.S. painter, in England after 1763.
  • between times — at intervals, as between other events or actions
  • bimetallistic — relating to bimetallism
  • binary system — a system involving only two elements, as 0 and 1 or yes and no.
  • bio-terrorism — the use of living organisms and their toxic products to kill or incapacitate, esp as a political weapon
  • biosystematic — relating to biosystematics
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • blandishments — Blandishments are pleasant things that someone says to another person in order to persuade them to do something.
  • 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.
  • bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
  • cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
  • camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
  • capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
  • cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • 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
  • chase mortise — a mortise having one inclined narrow side.
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