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13-letter words containing m, a, y, s

  • chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
  • city chambers — (in Scotland) the municipal building of a city; town hall
  • 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
  • colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • commissionary — Of, relating to, or conferring a commission.
  • companionways — Plural form of companionway.
  • company store — a retail store operated by a company for the convenience of the employees, who are required to buy from the store.
  • complaisantly — (archaic) In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
  • condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
  • consimilarity — the condition of being mutually alike
  • consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
  • costimulatory — Of or pertaining to co-stimulation.
  • costume party — A costume party or costume ball is a party at which the guests try to look like famous people or people from history, from stories, or from particular professions.
  • cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
  • dalton system — a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.
  • damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
  • demonstratory — having the quality of demonstrating
  • denmark vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
  • dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
  • dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
  • dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
  • dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
  • dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
  • discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
  • dissimilarity — unlikeness; difference.
  • dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
  • domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
  • doomsday book — Domesday Book.
  • doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
  • dynamic scope — (language)   In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
  • dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
  • dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
  • earnest money — money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.
  • east malaysia — part of Malaysia, consisting of the states of Sabah and Sarawak, which occupy the N part of the island of Borneo
  • easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
  • economy class — a low-priced type of accommodation for travel, especially on an airplane.
  • embarrassedly — In an embarrassed manner.
  • emphysematous — (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
  • empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
  • epistemically — In a manner that pertains to knowledge.
  • erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
  • false economy — an attempt to save money which actually leads to greater expense
  • family jewels — a man's genitals
  • family values — belief in traditional family unit
  • feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
  • fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
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