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13-letter words containing m, u, s

  • antismuggling — acting to prevent or reduce smuggling
  • antisubmarine — (of weapons, missiles, etc) designed to combat or destroy submarines
  • 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.
  • aqueous humor — a watery fluid in the space between the cornea and the lens of the eye
  • archeptolemus — (in the Iliad) the son of Iphitus who served as a charioteer for Hector.
  • as much again — twice as much
  • assumptionist — Augustinian of the Assumption.
  • asti spumante — a sweet, sparkling Italian white wine with a muscat flavor.
  • asylum seeker — An asylum seeker is a person who is trying to get asylum in a foreign country.
  • augmentations — Plural form of augmentation.
  • auguste comte — (Isidore) Auguste (Marie François) [ee-zee-dawr oh-gyst ma-ree frahn-swa] /i ziˈdɔr oʊˈgüst maˈri frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), 1798–1857, French founder of the philosophical system of positivism.
  • aum shinrikyo — a syncretistic Japanese cult combining elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, founded by Shoko Asahara in 1986; responsible for a number of murders and in particular a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995
  • australianism — the Australian national character or spirit
  • autodidactism — Alternative form of autodidacticism.
  • autoeroticism — the arousal and use of one's own body as a sexual object, as through masturbation
  • automechanism — an automatic mechanical system or component, especially a device that operates automatically under predetermined conditions.
  • autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
  • autumn crocus — a liliaceous plant, Colchicum autumnale, of Europe and N Africa having pink or purplish autumn flowers
  • balsam spruce — either of two North American coniferous trees of the genus Picea, P. pungens (the blue spruce) or P. engelmanni
  • balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
  • 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
  • basic plumage — the plumage assumed by an adult bird at its complete, usually annual, molt.
  • bedaux system — a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.
  • bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
  • benjamin-bush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
  • bermuda grass — a widely distributed grass, Cynodon dactylon, with wiry creeping rootstocks and several purplish spikes of flowers arising from a single point: used for lawns, pasturage, binding sand dunes, etc
  • biculturalism — the characteristics, or policy, of a two-cultured society
  • bildungsroman — a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development
  • bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
  • black muslims — (esp in the US) a political and religious movement of Black people who adopt the religious practices of Islam and seek to establish a new Black nation
  • 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)
  • blasphemously — uttering, containing, or exhibiting blasphemy; irreverent; profane.
  • board measure — a system of units for measuring wood based on the board foot. 1980 board feet equal one standard
  • boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
  • bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • built-up mast — a wooden mast formed of several shaped, longitudinal pieces joined together.
  • bumblebeefish — any of several gobies of the genus Brachygobius, inhabiting waters of the Malay Archipelago and having brown and yellow bands on the body that resemble the markings of a bumblebee.
  • 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.
  • bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
  • burmese glass — an American art glass of the late 19th century, ranging from greenish-yellow to pink.
  • burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
  • butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
  • caesium clock — a type of atomic clock that uses the frequency of radiation absorbed in changing the spin of electrons in caesium atoms
  • camphoraceous — similar to camphor
  • campus police — police officers, security guards or students employed by a college or university to patrol the campus and to protect students, staff, and visitors
  • cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
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