13-letter words containing m, u, t, s
- biculturalism — the characteristics, or policy, of a two-cultured society
- bird dismount — Hecht1 (def 1).
- 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)
- boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- built-up mast — a wooden mast formed of several shaped, longitudinal pieces joined together.
- 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.
- bus mastering — bus master
- butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
- 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.
- cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
- 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
- cement slurry — Cement slurry is a mixture of Portland cement, water, and additives.
- cerium metals — the metals lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, and samarium, forming a sub-group of the lanthanides
- 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.
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- circumspatial — Of or pertaining to the surrounding space.
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- circumstances — someone's financial situation
- circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- cns stimulant — A CNS stimulant is any substance that stimulates the central nervous system.
- come a stumer — to crash financially
- come up short — disappoint
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
- communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- communicators — Plural form of communicator.
- communisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of communization.
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- consumer unit — A consumer unit is a particular type of distribution board that controls and distributes electrical energy, especially in domestic premises.
- consumeristic — characterized by consumerism
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.