13-letter words containing m, i, s, c, l
- circumspatial — Of or pertaining to the surrounding space.
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
- claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
- class meaning — the meaning of a grammatical category or a form class, common to all forms showing the category or to all members of the form class, as in the meaning of number common to all Latin nouns or the meaning of singular common to all Latin singular noun and verb forms.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- cleomenes iii — died 219? b.c.; king of Sparta (235?-220? b.c.); sought to institute sweeping social reforms
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- climatologist — A climatologist is someone who studies climates.
- climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- closed-minded — having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person.
- cns stimulant — A CNS stimulant is any substance that stimulates the central nervous system.
- colloquialism — A colloquialism is a colloquial word or phrase.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- commensalisms — a companion at table.
- commercialese — business jargon
- commercialise — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commercialism — Commercialism is the practice of making a lot of money from things without caring about their quality.
- commercialist — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
- commonalities — Plural form of commonality.
- communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- companionless — Without a companion; friendless, alone.
- compatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibilist — (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- complacencies — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- complaisantly — (archaic) In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
- completionist — (in a video game) a player who attempts to complete every challenge and earn every achievement or trophy: I’m not really a completionist, so I skipped the side missions and focused on the main story quests.
- complications — Plural form of complication.
- compositional — Compositional refers to the way composers and artists use their skills or techniques in their work.
- compressional — relating to compression
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- 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
- consimilarity — the condition of being mutually alike
- consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- contemplatist — a contemplator
- 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
- cosmetologist — a person skilled or trained in the use of cosmetics and beauty treatments
- cosmochemical — relating to cosmochemistry
- cosmopolitans — Plural form of cosmopolitan.
- cosmopolitics — world politics