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13-letter words containing s, t, a, n, u

  • brain truster — a member of a brain trust; an important but usually unofficial adviser.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
  • bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
  • burt standishBurt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
  • cafe curtains — short, straight curtains, esp. for covering the lower part of a window, hung from a rod by means of sliding rings
  • calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
  • cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
  • capitulations — Plural form of capitulation.
  • capsulization — The act or process of capsulizing.
  • carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
  • carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
  • carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
  • carotid sinus — specialized nerve end organs producing a slight dilatation of the carotid artery where it branches into the external and internal carotid arteries, responding to changes in blood pressure by mediating changes in the heartbeat rate.
  • cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
  • cartiliginous — Alternative form of cartilaginous.
  • cash discount — a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date
  • casting couch — a couch on which a casting director is said to seduce women seeking a part in a film or play
  • casualisation — (economics) The process by which employment shifts from a preponderance of full-time and permanent or contract positions to higher levels of casual positions.
  • casualization — the altering of working practices so that regular workers are re-employed on a casual or short-term basis
  • cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
  • cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
  • catch the sun — to become slightly sunburnt
  • cauterisation — Alt form cauterization.
  • chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
  • chestnut coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 3/16 to 1 5/8 inch (3 to 4 cm).
  • chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
  • chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
  • cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • circumstances — someone's financial situation
  • citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
  • cns stimulant — A CNS stimulant is any substance that stimulates the central nervous system.
  • coal industry — a branch of commercial enterprise concerned with the discovery and mining of coal
  • colourisation — Alternative spelling of colorization.
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
  • communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
  • communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
  • communicators — Plural form of communicator.
  • communisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of communization.
  • compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
  • conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • 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
  • conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
  • condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
  • confusticated — Simple past tense and past participle of confusticate.
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