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13-letter words containing s, e, m, i, c

  • displacements — Plural form of displacement.
  • 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.
  • domestic fowl — a chicken.
  • domesticating — Present participle of domesticate.
  • domestication — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
  • ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.
  • elastic limit — the greatest stress that can be applied to a material without causing permanent deformation
  • electromerism — a type of tautomerism in which the isomers (electromers) differ in the distribution of charge in their molecules
  • emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
  • embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
  • empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
  • encomiastical — Alternative form of encomiastic.
  • encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
  • endosmometric — relating to the measurement of endosmotic action
  • endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
  • epistemically — In a manner that pertains to knowledge.
  • ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
  • eudaemonistic — Of or pertaining to eudaemonism.
  • euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
  • eurocommunism — the policies, doctrines, and practices of Communist Parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, esp those rejecting democratic centralism and favouring nonalignment with the Soviet Union and China
  • ex-serviceman — An ex-serviceman is a man who used to be in a country's army, navy, or air force.
  • excimer laser — a type of gas laser that emits powerful pulses of ultraviolet radiation used in weapons, industrial, or medical research: this radiation is emitted as the short-lived excimers, dimeric molecules that can only exist when a component is energized into an excited state, return to their ground states
  • feinschmecker — gourmet.
  • film sequence — a short piece of film or extract from a film, depicting a specific action or event
  • firmer chisel — a narrow-bladed chisel for paring and mortising, driven by hand pressure or with a mallet.
  • first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • force a smile — to make oneself smile
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • galactosaemia — Alternative spelling of galactosemia.
  • galactosaemic — of, relating to, or affected by galactosaemia
  • galactosamine — an amino sugar that is a major component of glycolipids and chondroitin.
  • gastrectomies — Plural form of gastrectomy.
  • gastrocnemius — the largest muscle in the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot, raises the heel, and assists in bending the knee.
  • geo-economics — the study or application of the influence of geography on domestic and international economics.
  • geocentricism — the belief that the earth lies at the centre of the universe
  • geodesic dome — a light, domelike structure developed by R. Buckminster Fuller to combine the properties of the tetrahedron and the sphere and consisting essentially of a grid of compression or tension members lying upon or parallel to great circles running in three directions in any given area, the typical form being the projection upon a sphere of an icosahedron, the triangular faces of which are filled with a symmetrical triangular, hexagonal, or quadrangular grid.
  • geometricians — Plural form of geometrician.
  • glamis castle — a castle near Glamis in Angus, Scotland: ancestral seat of the Lyons family, forebears of Elizabeth, the Queen Mother; famous for its legend of a secret chamber
  • glossectomies — Plural form of glossectomy.
  • gynaecomastia — abnormal overdevelopment of the breasts in a man
  • gynomonoecism — the condition of having female flowers and also flowers that have a pistil and stamen on the same plant
  • haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
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