13-letter words containing o, m, n, i, s, c
- 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.
- consumptivity — consumptiveness
- contemplatist — a contemplator
- contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
- contextualism — (in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made.
- contortionism — the practice of contorting, esp as a performance
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrarianism — Beliefs and practices of a contrarian.
- cosmic string — a one-dimensional defect in space-time postulated in certain theories of cosmology to exist in the universe as a consequence of the big bang
- cosmopolitans — Plural form of cosmopolitan.
- costimulation — Alternative spelling of co-stimulation.
- coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- country music — a type of 20th-century popular music based on White folk music of the southeastern US
- cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
- criminologist — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
- criminousness — the quality or state of being criminous
- cross-examine — When a lawyer cross-examines someone during a trial or hearing, he or she questions them about the evidence that they have already given.
- customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
- customisation — Alternative spelling of customization.
- customization — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customs union — an association of nations which promotes free trade within the union and establishes common tariffs on trade with nonmember nations
- decision time — a time at which an important decision must be taken
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- decommissions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decommission.
- decomposition — Decomposition is the process of decay that takes place when a living thing changes chemically after dying.
- decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
- decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- densitometric — Of or pertaining to densitometry.
- dichotomising — Present participle of dichotomise.
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- discomforting — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- discommission — (transitive) To deprive of a commission or trust.
- disconfirming — Not confirming.
- disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
- discordianism — (recreation) /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion, Church of the SubGenius, and ha ha only serious.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
- domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.