13-letter words containing m, u, n, t
- bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
- beleaguerment — a blockade or siege
- bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
- boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
- bottom-unique — In domain theory, a function f is bottom-unique if f x = bottom <=> x = bottom A bottom-unique function is also strict.
- bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
- bus mastering — bus master
- butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
- callithumpian — relating to or resembling a callithump
- cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
- carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
- carpetmuncher — Alternative form of carpet muncher.
- cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- catechumenate — Ecclesiastical. a person under instruction in the rudiments of Christianity, as in the early church; a neophyte.
- caution money — a sum of money deposited as security for good conduct, against possible debts, etc
- cement slurry — Cement slurry is a mixture of Portland cement, water, and additives.
- cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
- cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
- chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- circumambient — surrounding
- circumduction — the action of turning anything on its axis
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- circumstances — someone's financial situation
- circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- cns stimulant — A CNS stimulant is any substance that stimulates the central nervous system.
- coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
- column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
- commaundement — Obsolete spelling of commandment.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
- commented out — comment out
- communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
- communicating — making or having a direct connection from one room to another
- communication — Communications are the systems and processes that are used to communicate or broadcast information, especially by means of electricity or radio waves.
- communicative — Someone who is communicative talks to people, for example about their feelings, and tells people things.
- communicators — Plural form of communicator.
- communicatory — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- communisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of communization.
- communitarian — a member of a communist community
- communization — The act or process of communizing.
- commuter line — a railway line that mainly serves commuters