0%

13-letter words containing l, a, m, n, c

  • placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
  • plasma screen — A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-placement — the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position.
  • predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
  • provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
  • public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
  • rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
  • ramon y cajal — Santiago [sahn-tyah-gaw] /sɑnˈtyɑ gɔ/ (Show IPA), 1852–1934, Spanish histologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1906.
  • recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
  • recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
  • recriminalize — to make punishable as a crime: To reduce the graffiti on subway cars, he wants to criminalize the selling of spray paint to minors.
  • reminder call — an automated service which you can set up in advance to make a telephone call to you at a fixed time for the purpose of reminding you of something important
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
  • romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
  • romanticality — the state or quality of being romantic
  • sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
  • saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • sansculottism — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • sendmail inc. — (company)   The company, announced in November 1997 and launched in March 1998, created by Eric Allman, the original author of Sendmail. Allman is Chief Technology Officer, Greg Olson is President and CEO. Sendmail Inc. will sell commercial upgrades, service and support to Internet Service Providers and corporations running critical e-mail applications, while still continuing freeware development. Allman said that he devoted the fist six months of the life of Sendmail Inc. to finalising the freeware release. A commercial version was due in summer 1998, at around $1000 per server. The company is expected to reach $40m annual sales within three years. Funding is in the region of $1.25m. Address: Emeryville, California, USA.
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • social column — a column in a newspaper or magazine that details the activities of members of fashionable society
  • social gaming — the playing of online games on social media websites.
  • social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
  • spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
  • supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • sustentaculum — an organ or part that gives support
  • synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
  • taxonomically — the science or technique of classification.
  • telemechanics — the science or practice of operating mechanisms by remote control.
  • thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
  • thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
  • trace element — any element that is required in minute quantities for physiological functioning.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?