13-letter words containing s, m, e, l, i
- cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- cholesteremia — cholesterolemia.
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- circumstellar — surrounding, or revolving around, a star
- claims farmer — a middleman who encourages people to make compensation claims and who then sells these claims on to a lawyer
- 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.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- cleomenes iii — died 219? b.c.; king of Sparta (235?-220? b.c.); sought to institute sweeping social reforms
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- climbing rose — any of various roses that ascend and cover a trellis, arbor, etc., chiefly by twining about the supports.
- clishmaclaver — idle talk; gossip
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- 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.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- commensalisms — a companion at table.
- commercialese — business jargon
- commercialise — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commercialism — Commercialism is the practice of making a lot of money from things without caring about their quality.
- commercialist — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
- commonalities — Plural form of commonality.
- 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.
- 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.
- compressional — relating to compression
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- 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
- consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
- 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.
- cosmeceutical — a cosmetic that has, or is claimed to have, pharmaceutical properties
- cosmetologist — a person skilled or trained in the use of cosmetics and beauty treatments
- cosmochemical — relating to cosmochemistry
- cosmothetical — cosmothetic
- coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- crack a smile — to break into a smile
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
- defamiliarise — Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
- delimitations — Plural form of delimitation.