12-letter words containing m, a, r, s, c
- cryptomnesia — the reappearance of a suppressed or forgotten memory which is mistaken for a new experience
- cryptomonads — Plural form of cryptomonad.
- crystal form — a symmetrical set of planes in space, associated with a crystal, having the same symmetry as the crystal class
- crystal meth — crystal methamphetamine, a concentrated and highly potent form of methamphetamine with dangerous side effects
- curanderismo — the use of folk medicine, especially as practiced by a curandero.
- curtailments — Plural form of curtailment.
- cyma reversa — a cyma whose convex part projects beyond the concave part.
- decemvirates — Plural form of decemvirate.
- decentralism — A policy of favouring decentralization.
- demarcations — Plural form of demarcation.
- democratised — Simple past tense and past participle of democratise.
- democratiser — one who democratises
- democratizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of democratize.
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- dichromatism — the quality or condition of being dichromatic
- discriminant — a relatively simple expression that determines some of the properties, as the nature of the roots, of a given equation or function.
- discriminate — to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs rather than according to actual merit; show partiality: The new law discriminates against foreigners. He discriminates in favor of his relatives.
- district man — a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.
- dominatrices — Plural form of dominatrixThe 'Concise Oxford English Dictionary' [Eleventh Edition].
- drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
- dutch master — one of a number of renowned and influential Dutch painters
- ecotarianism — the principle or practice of avoiding eating any foods whose production or transportation are considered ecologically damaging
- elasmobranch — A cartilaginous fish of a group that comprises the sharks, rays, and skates.
- emancipators — Plural form of emancipator.
- embrocations — Plural form of embrocation.
- encumbrances — Plural form of encumbrance.
- epicureanism — An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
- extramusical — outside the field or scope of music
- fibrosarcoma — a sarcoma derived from fibroblast cells, often able to generate collagen.
- forasmuch as — since
- formal cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- from scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- gastric mill — a gizzard in decapod crustaceans, as lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, having an arrangement of teeth and small bones for grinding food and bristles for filtering small particles.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- gastronomics — the cooking style typical of a region or country
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- grammaticise — to make grammatical
- grammaticism — a point or principle of grammar.
- great schism — a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
- greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
- gymnocarpous — (of a fungus or lichen) having the apothecium open and attached to the surface of the thallus.
- harum-scarum — reckless; rash; irresponsible: He had a harum-scarum youth.
- hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
- hidrocystoma — An adenoma of the sweat glands.
- hypersarcoma — a growth of proud or fungous flesh
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry