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13-letter words containing m, s, t, a, r

  • antireformers — Plural form of antireformer.
  • antiritualism — opposed to ritualism
  • antisubmarine — (of weapons, missiles, etc) designed to combat or destroy submarines
  • antisymmetric — (of a relation) never holding between a pair of arguments x and y when it holds between y and x except when x = y, as "…is no younger than…"
  • antiterrorism — opposed to or acting against terrorism; counterterrorist
  • aperture mask — a perforated metal plate situated behind the faceplate of a color television picture tube and having holes aligned to insure that each of three electron beams strikes only its corresponding red, green, or blue phosphor dot.
  • apogeotropism — negative geotropism, as shown by plant stems
  • archeptolemus — (in the Iliad) the son of Iphitus who served as a charioteer for Hector.
  • aristocratism — the principles of aristocrats
  • arm wrestling — a contest in which two people sit facing each other each with one elbow resting on a table, clasp hands, and each tries to force the other's arm flat onto the table while keeping his own elbow touching the table
  • armistice day — the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I, on Nov 11, 1918, now kept on Remembrance Sunday
  • armstand dive — a dive starting from a handstand at the end of a springboard or a platform with the diver's back to the water.
  • ascertainment — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • astrodynamics — the study of the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space
  • atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • attested form — a linguistic form that can be shown to be in use or in written records
  • australianism — the Australian national character or spirit
  • autoeroticism — the arousal and use of one's own body as a sexual object, as through masturbation
  • autumn crocus — a liliaceous plant, Colchicum autumnale, of Europe and N Africa having pink or purplish autumn flowers
  • avant-gardism — the attitudes, techniques, etc., of the cultural avant-garde.
  • baggagemaster — a person employed, especially by a railroad, bus company, or steamship line, to take charge of passengers' baggage.
  • ballet master — a man who teaches and rehearses the dancers in a ballet company
  • baluster stem — a stem of a drinking glass or the like having a gradual swelling near the top or bottom.
  • band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
  • basement-rock — the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
  • bass trombone — the lower-pitched of the two main types of trombone
  • bastard amber — a color of gelatin commonly used in stage lighting, similar to light amber but having a pinkish cast.
  • beam splitter — a system that divides a beam of light, electrons, etc, into two or more paths
  • biculturalism — the characteristics, or policy, of a two-cultured society
  • binary system — a system involving only two elements, as 0 and 1 or yes and no.
  • bipartisanism — the quality of being bipartisan
  • black mustard — a Eurasian plant, Brassica (or Sinapsis) nigra, with clusters of yellow flowers and pungent seeds from which the condiment mustard is made: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • boston matrix — a two-dimensional matrix, used in planning the business strategy of a large organization, that identifies those business units in the organization that generate cash and those that use it
  • bowman's root — an eastern U.S. plant, Gillenia trifoliata, of the rose family, having terminal clusters of white flowers.
  • brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
  • breast timber — wale1 (def 5).
  • breast-timber — a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip; welt.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
  • cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
  • capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
  • carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
  • casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
  • cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
  • cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
  • centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
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