13-letter words containing m, e, a, s, u
- blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
- board measure — a system of units for measuring wood based on the board foot. 1980 board feet equal one standard
- bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
- bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
- 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
- bus mastering — bus master
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- caesium clock — a type of atomic clock that uses the frequency of radiation absorbed in changing the spin of electrons in caesium atoms
- camphoraceous — similar to camphor
- 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
- cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
- cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- 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
- chain measure — measurement of distance using a chain 66 feet (20 meters) long, of which one link equals 7.9 inches (20.1 cm).
- chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
- chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- circumambages — round-about methods
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- circumstances — someone's financial situation
- circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- 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.
- come a stumer — to crash financially
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- contextualism — (in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made.
- cosmeceutical — a cosmetic that has, or is claimed to have, pharmaceutical properties
- costume drama — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- 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.
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- counterstream — a stream (of matter) which travels in the opposite direction
- cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
- cramer's rule — a method involving the determinant of the coefficients, for calculating a unique solution for a given system of linear equations.
- cubic measure — a system of units for the measurement of volumes, based on the cubic inch, the cubic centimetre, etc
- custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste
- customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.