14-letter words containing s, u, i, m, a
- communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
- communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
- contractualism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
- contumaciously — stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
- corpuscularism — (philosophy) Ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
- cosmeceuticals — Plural form of cosmeceutical.
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- diamondiferous — containing or yielding diamonds for mining.
- 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
- disambiguating — Present participle of disambiguate.
- disambiguation — to remove the ambiguity from; make unambiguous: In order to disambiguate the sentence “She lectured on the famous passenger ship,” you'll have to write either “lectured on board” or “lectured about.”.
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
- excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
- fabius maximus — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.
- foraminiferous — Having small openings, or foramina.
- framing square — a steel square usually having on its faces various tables and scales useful to the carpenter.
- fundamentalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts, especially within American Protestantism and Islam.
- fundamentalist — an adherent of fundamentalism, a religious movement characterized by a strict belief in the literal interpretation of religious texts: radical fundamentalists.
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- gaussian image — the point in an optical system with spherical aberration at which the paraxial rays meet.
- glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
- group dynamics — (used with a plural verb) the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances.
- harmoniousness — The characteristic of being harmonious.
- harz mountains — mountain range in central Germany, extending from Lower Saxony to the Elbe River
- health tourism — tourist travel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment or improving health or fitness: The spiraling cost of healthcare has contributed to the growth of medical tourism. Also called health tourism.
- hemimetabolous — incomplete metamorphosis.
- hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body