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14-letter words containing s, u, m

  • commissurotomy — the incision of a band of commissures, especially of mitral fibers, to correct mitral stenosis.
  • commodiousness — The state or quality of being commodious.
  • common assault — an action that causes a person to fear that he or she is in danger of violent attack
  • common measure — the usual stanza form of a ballad, consisting of four iambic lines rhyming a b c b or a b a b
  • communications — the ways in which human beings communicate
  • communism peak — a peak of the Pamir mountains, in NE Tajikistan. 24,590 feet (7495 meters).
  • communitarians — Plural form of communitarian.
  • compass course — the direction of a ship's course based on its compass
  • compound sugar — any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.
  • compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
  • compusult ltd. — A computer consulting firm (in Newfoundland, Canada?) that provides a public access Unix.
  • compute server — (computer, parallel)   A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
  • computer virus — virus
  • concrete music — music consisting of an electronically modified montage of tape-recorded sounds
  • constructivism — a movement in abstract art evolved in Russia after World War I, primarily by Naum Gabo, which explored the use of movement and machine-age materials in sculpture and had considerable influence on modern art and architecture
  • consumer goods — Consumer goods are items bought by people for their own use, rather than by businesses. Compare capital goods.
  • consumer group — an organization that campaigns for the rights of consumers
  • contemptuously — showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful.
  • conterminously — having a common boundary; bordering; contiguous.
  • 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.
  • contumeliously — insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.
  • corpuscularism — (philosophy) Ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
  • 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
  • croquembouches — Plural form of croquembouche.
  • cross-compound — (of a compound engine or turbine) having the high-pressure and low-pressure units side by side.
  • cross-multiply — to remove fractions from an equation by multiplying each side by the common multiple of the denominators of the fractions of both sides.
  • cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
  • cruise missile — A cruise missile is a missile which carries a nuclear warhead and which is guided by a computer.
  • crunch numbers — to crush with the teeth; chew with a crushing noise.
  • cumbersomeness — The state of being cumbersome.
  • cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
  • customer's man — registered representative.
  • customs broker — a person whose job is to assist businesses in clearing imported or exported goods through customs
  • cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
  • 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.
  • demerara sugar — Demerara sugar is a type of brown sugar. It is made from sugar cane that is grown in the West Indies.
  • demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
  • deuteromycetes — any fungus of the class Fungi Imperfecti.
  • 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
  • diminutiveness — The state or quality of being diminutive.
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