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13-letter words containing m, u, s, c

  • documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
  • doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
  • eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
  • ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.
  • encumbrancers — Plural form of encumbrancer.
  • eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
  • euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
  • eurocommunism — the policies, doctrines, and practices of Communist Parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, esp those rejecting democratic centralism and favouring nonalignment with the Soviet Union and China
  • fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
  • film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
  • fluorochromes — Plural form of fluorochrome.
  • formicivorous — ant-eating.
  • formularistic — relating to formularization
  • fractocumulus — low ragged slightly bulbous cloud, often appearing below nimbostratus clouds during rain
  • frumentaceous — of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain.
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
  • glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
  • gossip column — newspaper: celebrity news article
  • graminicolous — (esp of parasitic fungi) living on grass
  • hemicellulose — any of a group of gummy polysaccharides, intermediate in complexity between sugar and cellulose, that hydrolyze to monosaccharides more readily than cellulose.
  • home counties — The Home Counties are the counties which surround London.
  • host computer — the main computer in a network: controls or performs certain functions for other computers.
  • immunochemist — A chemist whose speciality is immunochemistry.
  • impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
  • impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
  • impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
  • imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
  • inclusion map — a map of a set to itself in which each element of a given subset of the set is mapped to itself.
  • incombustible — not combustible; incapable of being burned; fireproof.
  • income source — something that provides a regular supply of money, such as employment, investments, a pension etc
  • inner sanctum — sanctum (def 2).
  • intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
  • intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
  • jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
  • jus canonicum — canon law.
  • lapsus calami — a slip of the pen.
  • lectisternium — (in ancient Rome) a religious rite in which the images of the gods were placed upon couches around a table, upon which was set a feast
  • line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
  • lumberjackets — Plural form of lumberjacket.
  • macías nguema — a former name of Bioko.
  • macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
  • macrovascular — Of or pertaining to the larger blood vessels.
  • madeira sauce — a savoury sauce made with Madeira wine and served with meat
  • magnoliaceous — belonging to the plant family Magnoliaceae.
  • magnus effect — the thrust on a cylinder rotating about its axis while in motion in a fluid, the thrust being perpendicular to the relative motion of the cylinder in the fluid.
  • main sequence — a narrow band in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram in which 90 percent of all observed stars are plotted.
  • make-up class — a course of teaching in the application of make-up
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