14-letter words containing s, u, m, a, t
- common assault — an action that causes a person to fear that he or she is in danger of violent attack
- communications — the ways in which human beings communicate
- 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.
- cosmeceuticals — Plural form of cosmeceutical.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cotemporaneous — contemporaneous
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- countermeasure — A countermeasure is an action that you take in order to weaken the effect of another action or a situation, or to make it harmless.
- court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
- 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
- dehumanisation — Alternative spelling of dehumanization.
- diamantiferous — (usually of geographical regions) producing or bearing diamonds
- 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.”.
- discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- 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
- dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
- dumbarton oaks — an estate in the District of Columbia: site of conferences held to discuss proposals for creation of the United Nations, August–October, 1944.
- dutchman's log — a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
- 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.
- encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
- estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
- excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
- extemporaneous — Spoken or done without preparation.
- 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
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- 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.
- futures market — a market in which futures contracts in commodities are traded.
- garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- glamourisation — Alternative spelling of glamorization.
- granulomatosis — any disease characterized by the formation of numerous granulomas.
- gypsum plaster — plaster made primarily of gypsum.
- haematophagous — (of certain animals) feeding on blood