13-letter words containing s, a, n, m, i, c
- 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
- concomitances — Plural form of concomitance.
- condemnations — Plural form of condemnation.
- confirmations — Plural form of confirmation.
- conformations — Plural form of conformation.
- consimilarity — the condition of being mutually alike
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- contemplatist — a contemplator
- 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.
- contrabandism — the practice of trading contraband goods
- contrarianism — Beliefs and practices of a contrarian.
- cosmopolitans — Plural form of cosmopolitan.
- costimulation — Alternative spelling of co-stimulation.
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- cousin-german — the child of one's aunt or uncle
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- craftsmanship — Craftsmanship is the skill that someone uses when they make beautiful things with their hands.
- crape jasmine — a shrub, Tabernaemontana divaricata, native to India, having white flowers that are fragrant at night.
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- criminalising — Present participle of criminalise.
- criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
- 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.
- decisionmaker — One who makes decisions.
- decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
- demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- disaffirmance — to deny; contradict.
- 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.
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
- discriminants — Plural form of discriminant.
- discriminated — Simple past tense and past participle of discriminate.
- discriminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discriminate.
- discriminator — a person or thing that discriminates.
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- 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.
- east germanic — a branch of the Germanic languages no longer extant, comprising Gothic and probably others of which there are no written records. Abbreviation: EGmc.
- ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.