14-letter words containing m, e, n, s, t
- compassionated — Simple past tense and past participle of compassionate.
- compatibleness — The state or quality of being compatible.
- compensability — eligibility for compensation
- compensational — the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
- concertmasters — Plural form of concertmaster.
- concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
- conservativism — Alternative form of conservatism.
- contemplations — Plural form of contemplation.
- contemplatives — Plural form of contemplative.
- contemporaries — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
- contemporising — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contemptuously — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
- conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
- continentalism — an attitude, expression, etc., characteristic of a continent, especially of Europe.
- control system — a system that senses, switches, or regulates another system
- contumeliously — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
- cookie monster — (recreation) (From the children's TV program "Sesame Street") Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10, ITS, Multics and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. See also wabbit.
- cooling system — a system which cools something such as a building or engine
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- cornelis tromp — Cornelis [kawr-ney-lis] /kɔrˈneɪ lɪs/ (Show IPA), 1629–91, and his father, Maarten Harpertszoon [mahr-tuh n hahr-puh rt-sohn] /ˈmɑr tən ˈhɑr pərtˌsoʊn/ (Show IPA) 1597–1653, Dutch admirals.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- customer's man — registered representative.
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decompensation — the inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
- decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- demand deposit — a bank deposit from which withdrawals may be made without notice
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demolitionists — Plural form of demolitionist.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- demonstrations — Plural form of demonstration.
- demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
- demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
- denmark strait — a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
- destigmatizing — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- determinations — Plural form of determination.
- determinatives — Plural form of determinative.
- determinedness — The state or quality of being determined.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- dimensionality — 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.
- diminutiveness — The state or quality of being diminutive.
- diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
- disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
- disarrangement — Upset of the normal order.