13-letter words containing s, t, o, m, e
- autoschediasm — anything done with little forethought or preparation
- baal shem tov — original name Israel ben Eliezer ?1700–60, Jewish religious leader, teacher, and healer in Poland: founder of modern Hasidism
- baal-shem-tov — (Israel ben Eliezer"Besht") c1700–60, Ukrainian teacher and religious leader: founder of the Hasidic movement of Judaism.
- basement-rock — the undifferentiated assemblage of rock (basement rock) underlying the oldest stratified rocks in any region: usually crystalline, metamorphosed, and mostly, but not necessarily, Precambrian in age.
- basidiomycete — any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota (formerly class Basidiomycetes), in which the spores are produced in basidia. The group includes boletes, puffballs, smuts, and rusts
- bass trombone — the lower-pitched of the two main types of trombone
- bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
- bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
- bessel method — a method of ascertaining position by the use of a map showing prominent features of the terrain and enabling one to sight through them to obtain a fix.
- bestsellerdom — the state or accomplishment of being a bestseller
- betamethasone — a synthetic analogue of a glucocorticoid, C 22 H 29 FO 5 , used in various forms in the treatment of inflammation, allergies, and tumors, and for replacement therapy in adrenal insufficiency.
- bio-terrorism — the use of living organisms and their toxic products to kill or incapacitate, esp as a political weapon
- biosystematic — relating to biosystematics
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- bottomset bed — fine sediment deposited at the front of a growing delta
- bromo-seltzer — a compound containing a bromide, sodium bicarbonate, etc., used for relief from headaches and upset stomachs, and as a sedative
- 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.
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- casement door — a door having glass panes throughout or nearly throughout its length.
- cash customer — a purchaser who pays cash rather than by check, credit card, or charge account.
- 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
- centrosomally — In a centrosomal way.
- ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- chase mortise — a mortise having one inclined narrow side.
- cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
- chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
- cholesteatoma — A destructive and expanding keratinizing squamous epithelium in the middle ear and/or mastoid process.
- cholesteremia — cholesterolemia.
- chrestomathic — (of teaching or learning) That has a practical use.
- chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
- chromesthesia — (neurology, psychology) sound-to-color synaesthesia.
- circumlocutes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumlocute.
- cleistogamous — having small, unopened, self-pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- clistothecium — cleistothecium.
- close to home — affecting sb personally
- close-mouthed — Someone who is close-mouthed about something does not say much about it.
- closed system — a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it.
- coleman stove — a portable kerosene camp stove
- combativeness — The state of being combative.
- come a stumer — to crash financially
- come to blows — to fight
- come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
- come to terms — to reach acceptance or agreement
- come up short — disappoint
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- commencements — Plural form of commencement.
- commendations — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.