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13-letter words containing s, e, l, o, m

  • cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
  • cleomenes iii — died 219? b.c.; king of Sparta (235?-220? b.c.); sought to institute sweeping social reforms
  • cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
  • climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
  • clistothecium — cleistothecium.
  • close company — a company under the control of its directors or fewer than five independent participants
  • close harmony — a type of singing in which all the parts except the bass lie close together and are confined to the compass of a tenth
  • close to home — affecting sb personally
  • close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
  • closed system — a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it.
  • closed-minded — having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person.
  • coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
  • coalesced sum — (theory)   (Or "smash sum") In domain theory, the coalesced sum of domains A and B, A (+) B, contains all the non-bottom elements of both domains, tagged to show which part of the sum they come from, and a new bottom element. D (+) E = { bottom(D(+)E) } U { (0,d) | d in D, d /= bottom(D) } U { (1,e) | e in E, e /= bottom(E) } The bottoms of the constituent domains are coalesced into a single bottom in the sum. This may be generalised to any number of domains. The ordering is bottom(D(+)E) <= v For all v in D(+)E (i,v1) <= (j,v2) iff i = j & v1 <= v2 "<=" is usually written as LaTeX \sqsubseteq and "(+)" as LaTeX \oplus - a "+" in a circle.
  • coleman stove — a portable kerosene camp stove
  • colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
  • column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
  • come to blows — to fight
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
  • commensalisms — a companion at table.
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • commercialese — business jargon
  • commercialise — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
  • commercialism — Commercialism is the practice of making a lot of money from things without caring about their quality.
  • commercialist — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
  • commonalities — Plural form of commonality.
  • commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
  • communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
  • companionless — Without a companion; friendless, alone.
  • compass plane — a plane for smoothing curved surfaces.
  • compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
  • complacencies — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
  • completedness — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
  • completer set — a set of supplementary pieces that completes a set of dishes, as creamer, sugar bowl, platter, gravy boat, and vegetable dish.
  • completionist — (in a video game) a player who attempts to complete every challenge and earn every achievement or trophy: I’m not really a completionist, so I skipped the side missions and focused on the main story quests.
  • complexedness — complexity
  • compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
  • compressional — relating to compression
  • compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
  • comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
  • comstock lode — an extensive gold and silver vein in W Nevada, near Virginia City
  • 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
  • conglomerates — anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements.
  • consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
  • consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
  • contemplatist — a contemplator
  • contemplators — Plural form of 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.
  • corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
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