13-letter words containing s, l, u, m
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- cns stimulant — A CNS stimulant is any substance that stimulates the central nervous system.
- 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.
- colloquialism — A colloquialism is a colloquial word or phrase.
- 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
- commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- 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.
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- 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
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- 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.
- 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
- cosmeceutical — a cosmetic that has, or is claimed to have, pharmaceutical properties
- costimulation — Alternative spelling of co-stimulation.
- costimulatory — Of or pertaining to co-stimulation.
- coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
- coulomb's law — the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- cramer's rule — a method involving the determinant of the coefficients, for calculating a unique solution for a given system of linear equations.
- crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
- cumulus cloud — a bulbous or billowing white or dark grey cloud associated with rising air currents
- custom-tailor — to modify to fit a specific use or need; tailor-make.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dichotomously — divided or dividing into two parts.
- disilluminate — to darken
- dissimilitude — unlikeness; difference; dissimilarity.
- dissimulating — Present participle of dissimulate.
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- documentalist — a specialist in documentation; a person working strictly with information and record-keeping.
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
- drug smuggler — trafficker in illegal substances