11-letter words containing s, i, m, o, n
- astronomize — to practise or study astronomy or engage in astronomical matters
- atomisation — Alternative spelling of atomization.
- atomtronics — (physics) The design, manufacture and study of analogs of electronics using atoms (especially Bose-Einstein condensates) at low temperature.
- attorneyism — the slyness and cleverness associated with attorneys
- biodynamics — the branch of biology that deals with the energy production and activities of organisms
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bohemianism — unconventional behaviour or appearance, esp of an artist
- bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- calamondins — Plural form of calamondin.
- canis major — a constellation in the S hemisphere close to Orion, containing Sirius, the brightest star in the sky
- canis minor — a small constellation in the N hemisphere close to Orion, containing the first magnitude star Procyon
- carnivorism — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
- cash income — income received in the form of cash during a specified period, esp that of rural and farming households
- centrosomic — Relating to the centrosome.
- ceremonials — Plural form of ceremonial.
- ceremonious — especially or excessively polite or formal
- chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
- champignons — Plural form of champignon.
- championess — a female champion
- chironomids — Plural form of chironomid.
- chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
- chrismation — a rite of initiation involving anointing with chrism and taking place at the same time as baptism
- christendom — All the Christian people and countries in the world can be referred to as Christendom.
- cinemagoers — Plural form of cinemagoer.
- cinemascope — an anamorphic process of wide-screen film projection in which an image of approximately twice the usual width is squeezed into a 35mm frame and then screened by a projector having complementary lenses
- clinometers — Plural form of clinometer.
- coenobitism — the practice of coenobites
- cognitivism — the meta-ethical thesis that moral judgments state facts and so are either true or false
- colonialism — Colonialism is the practice by which a powerful country directly controls less powerful countries and uses their resources to increase its own power and wealth.
- columnistic — belonging or relating to a columnist
- combinators — Plural form of combinator.
- combustions — Plural form of combustion.
- comediennes — Plural form of comedienne.
- comicalness — The state or quality of being comical.
- commissions — Plural form of commission.
- commitments — the act of committing.
- common lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs., Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Yale, MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped. Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp. It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS, an extended LOOP macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames. Implementations include AKCL, CCL, CLiCC, CLISP, CLX, CMU Common Lisp, DCL, KCL, MCL and WCL. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
- communalise — Alternative form of communalize.
- communalism — a system or theory of government in which the state is seen as a loose federation of self-governing communities
- communalist — An advocate of communalism.
- communiques — Misspelling of communiqués.
- communistic — of, characteristic of, or relating to communism
- communities — Plural form of community.
- comparisons — Plural form of comparison.
- compassings — contrivances or schemes
- compendious — containing or stating the essentials of a subject in a concise form; succinct
- compendiums — Plural form of compendium.
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- complaisant — If you are complaisant, you are willing to accept what other people are doing without complaining.