13-letter words containing l, a, m, e, s
- basement flat — a flat below the ground floor of a building
- basic plumage — the plumage assumed by an adult bird at its complete, usually annual, molt.
- beaked salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beaked-salmon — sandfish (def 2).
- beam splitter — a system that divides a beam of light, electrons, etc, into two or more paths
- berkeleianism — the philosophical system of George Berkeley, holding that objects exist only when perceived, that God's perception sustains the universe, and that there is no independent substratum or substance in which these perceptions inhere
- biased sample — a statistical sample in which the items selected share some property which influences their distribution
- bimetallistic — relating to bimetallism
- black measles — a severe form of measles characterized by dark eruptions caused by bleeding under the skin
- black skimmer — a black and white New World skimmer, Rynchops nigra, having a bill with a reddish-orange base.
- blameableness — the quality of being blameable
- 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.
- blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
- blepharospasm — spasm of the muscle of the eyelids, causing the eyes to shut tightly, either as a response to painful stimuli or occurring as a form of dystonia
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
- 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.
- 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
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
- chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
- cholesteatoma — A destructive and expanding keratinizing squamous epithelium in the middle ear and/or mastoid process.
- cholesteremia — cholesterolemia.
- circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
- claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- class meaning — the meaning of a grammatical category or a form class, common to all forms showing the category or to all members of the form class, as in the meaning of number common to all Latin nouns or the meaning of singular common to all Latin singular noun and verb forms.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
- close company — a company under the control of its directors or fewer than five independent participants
- close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
- coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
- coalesced sum — (theory) (Or "smash sum") In domain theory, the coalesced sum of domains A and B, A (+) B, contains all the non-bottom elements of both domains, tagged to show which part of the sum they come from, and a new bottom element. D (+) E = { bottom(D(+)E) } U { (0,d) | d in D, d /= bottom(D) } U { (1,e) | e in E, e /= bottom(E) } The bottoms of the constituent domains are coalesced into a single bottom in the sum. This may be generalised to any number of domains. The ordering is bottom(D(+)E) <= v For all v in D(+)E (i,v1) <= (j,v2) iff i = j & v1 <= v2 "<=" is usually written as LaTeX \sqsubseteq and "(+)" as LaTeX \oplus - a "+" in a circle.
- coleman stove — a portable kerosene camp stove
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensalisms — a companion at table.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commercialese — business jargon