16-letter words containing m, s, i, e, u
- combined honours — (in British education) a degree course that includes more than one subject
- commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
- commission house — a brokerage firm that buys and sells for customers on a commission basis
- communicableness — The state or quality of being communicable.
- commutation-test — the act of substituting one thing for another; substitution; exchange.
- complicitousness — (rare, possibly nonstandard) Complicity.
- composite number — a positive integer that can be factorized into two or more other positive integers
- computer science — the study of computers and their application
- computer studies — a course of study devoted to using and programming computers
- consequentialism — the doctrine that an action is right or wrong according as its consequences are good or bad
- consumer society — You can use consumer society to refer to a society where people think that spending money on goods and services is very important.
- consumption weed — groundsel tree.
- continuous miner — continuous cutter.
- contumaciousness — The property of being contumacious.
- contumeliousness — The state or quality of being contumelious.
- cosmetic surgery — Cosmetic surgery is surgery done to make a person look more attractive.
- costume designer — a person who designs costumes for plays and films
- counterterrorism — Counterterrorism consists of activities that are intended to prevent terrorist acts or to get rid of terrorist groups.
- criminal justice — the system of law enforcement, involving police, lawyers, courts, and corrections, used for all stages of criminal proceedings and punishment.
- curmudgeonliness — The state or condition of being curmudgeonly.
- customer profile — a description or analysis of a typical or ideal customer for one's business
- customer service — Customer service refers to the way that companies behave towards their customers, for example how well they treat them.
- delirium tremens — a severe psychotic condition occurring in some persons with chronic alcoholism, characterized by delirium, tremor, anxiety, and vivid hallucinations
- demolition squad — a group of demolishers
- demutualizations — Plural form of demutualization.
- dimension lumber — building lumber cut to standard or specified sizes.
- dimethyl sulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- distance modulus — a measure of the distance, r, of a celestial object too far away to show measurable parallax. It is given by m–M = 5 log(r/10), where m is its apparent magnitude (corrected for interstellar absorption) and M is its absolute magnitude
- distinguishments — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- distributed term — a term applying equally to every member of the class it designates, as doctors in no doctors are overworked
- drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
- duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
- duplessis-mornay — Philippe [fee-leep] /fiˈlip/ (Show IPA), Mornay, Philippe de.
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
- elburz mountains — a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)
- electronic music — music: synthesized
- embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
- exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
- exhaust manifold — An exhaust manifold is a heat-resistant tube that connects an engine to an exhaust pipe.
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- feminine caesura — a caesura occurring immediately after an unstressed or short syllable.
- first-time buyer — someone who is buying his or her first house
- four-dimensional — of a space having points, or a set having elements, which require four coordinates for their unique determination.
- four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
- fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
- fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
- fullness of time — the proper or destined time.
- fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
- gallium arsenide — a crystalline and highly toxic semiconductor, GaAs, used in light-emitting diodes, lasers, and electronic devices.