13-letter words containing m, e, s, t, o
- 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.
- costume piece — any theatrical production, film, television presentation, etc, in which the performers wear the costumes of a former age
- coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
- côtes-d'armor — a department of W France, on the N coast of Brittany. Capital: St Brieuc. Pop: 553 969 (2003 est). Area: 6878 sq km (2656 sq miles)
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- counterstream — a stream (of matter) which travels in the opposite direction
- crescent moon — the moon seen as a crescent when waxing or waning
- customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- customer care — the work of looking after customers and ensuring their satisfaction with one's business and its goods or services
- customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- cytochemistry — the chemistry of living cells
- 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.
- dame's rocket — a Eurasian plant, Hesperis matronalis, of the mustard family, having loose clusters of four-petalled purple or white fragrant flowers.
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- decision time — a time at which an important decision must be taken
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
- decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decomposition — Decomposition is the process of decay that takes place when a living thing changes chemically after dying.
- delimitations — Plural form of delimitation.
- demeritorious — a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency: If you receive four demerits during a term, you will be expelled from school.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- demolitionist — an act or instance of demolishing.
- demonstrating — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- demonstration — A demonstration is a march or gathering which people take part in to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- demonstrative — Someone who is demonstrative shows affection freely and openly.
- demonstrators — a person or thing that demonstrates.
- demonstratory — having the quality of demonstrating
- demythologise — to divest of mythological or legendary attributes or forms, as in order to permit clearer appraisal and understanding: to demythologize the music dramas of Richard Wagner for modern listeners.
- denominations — Plural form of denomination.
- denouncements — Plural form of denouncement.
- densitometers — Plural form of densitometer.
- densitometric — Of or pertaining to densitometry.
- deposit money — checks, letters of credit, etc., that circulate and are payable on demand.
- depressomotor — retarding motor activity
- dermatologies — Plural form of dermatology.
- dermatologist — A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the study of skin and the treatment of skin diseases.
- dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- dermoskeleton — (anatomy) An exoskeleton.
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- determinators — determiner (def 1).
- deuteronomist — one of the writers of Deuteronomy
- deuterostomes — Plural form of deuterostome.
- dexamethasone — a type of powerful steroid, used as an anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- diamond state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
- diathermanous — the property of transmitting heat as electromagnetic radiation.