14-letter words containing s, m, a
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- creme anglaise — a custardlike cream sauce, often flavored with vanilla, served with fresh fruit, rich chocolate desserts, etc.
- creme d'ananas — a liqueur flavored with pineapple.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- criminalistics — the scientific study of criminal evidence
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
- cross-modality — the ability to integrate information acquired through separate senses.
- cross-platform — (software, hardware) A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- crystal system — any of six, or sometimes seven, classifications of crystals depending on their symmetry. The classes are cubic, tetragonal, hexagonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic. Sometimes an additional system, trigonal, is distinguished, although this is usually included in the hexagonal system
- crystallomancy — a form of divination using crystals or a crystal ball
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- customer's man — registered representative.
- cyclostomatous — having a circular mouth.
- damascus steel — a hard flexible steel with wavy markings caused by forging the metal in strips: used for sword blades
- decimal system — the number system in general use, having a base of ten, in which numbers are expressed by combinations of the ten digits 0 to 9
- decimalisation — Conversion to a decimal system.
- decision-maker — a person who makes decisions
- decisionmaking — Alternative form of decision making.
- decompensating — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- decompensation — the inability of an organ, esp the heart, to maintain its function due to overload caused by a disease
- decontaminates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decontaminate.
- decriminalised — to eliminate criminal penalties for or remove legal restrictions against: to decriminalize marijuana.
- decriminalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decriminalize.
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- demand deposit — a bank deposit from which withdrawals may be made without notice
- dematerialised — Simple past tense and past participle of dematerialise.
- dematerializes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dematerialize.
- demerara sugar — Demerara sugar is a type of brown sugar. It is made from sugar cane that is grown in the West Indies.
- demilitarising — Present participle of demilitarise.
- demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
- demobilisation — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of demobilization.
- demonstratable — Alternative form of demonstrable.
- demonstrations — Plural form of demonstration.
- demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
- demoralisation — Alternative spelling of demoralization.
- denmark strait — a channel between SE Greenland and Iceland, linking the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic
- dermatologists — Plural form of dermatologist.
- dermatomycoses — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- dermatomycosis — a superficial fungal infection of the skin.
- destigmatizing — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
- determinations — Plural form of determination.
- determinatives — Plural form of determinative.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamond-shaped — rhombic
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- diastereomeric — having the properties of or pertaining to a diastereoisomer
- diazonium salt — any of a class of compounds with the general formula ArN:N–M+, where Ar is an aryl group and M is a metal atom; made by the action of nitrous acid on aromatic amines and used in dyeing
- dimensionality — 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.