13-letter words containing s, i, m, l, n
- cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
- class meaning — the meaning of a grammatical category or a form class, common to all forms showing the category or to all members of the form class, as in the meaning of number common to all Latin nouns or the meaning of singular common to all Latin singular noun and verb forms.
- cleomenes iii — died 219? b.c.; king of Sparta (235?-220? b.c.); sought to institute sweeping social reforms
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- climbing fish — an Asian labyrinth fish, Anabas testudineus, that resembles a perch and can travel over land on its spiny gill covers and pectoral fins
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- 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.
- cns stimulant — A CNS stimulant is any substance that stimulates the central nervous system.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- commensalisms — a companion at table.
- commonalities — Plural form of commonality.
- communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- companionless — Without a companion; friendless, alone.
- 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.
- complaisantly — (archaic) In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
- 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.
- complications — Plural form of complication.
- compositional — Compositional refers to the way composers and artists use their skills or techniques in their work.
- compressional — relating to compression
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- 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
- consimilarity — the condition of being mutually alike
- 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.
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- 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.
- 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.
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- 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.
- criminologist — the study of crime and criminals: a branch of sociology.
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
- delimitations — Plural form of delimitation.
- demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- demineralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demineralize.
- demolitionist — an act or instance of demolishing.
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
- dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dimensionless — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.