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13-letter words containing s, y, m

  • disconformity — Geology. the surface of a division between parallel rock strata, indicating interruption of sedimentation: a type of unconformity.
  • discriminably — So as to be discriminable; distinguishably.
  • disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
  • dissimilarity — unlikeness; difference.
  • dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
  • dissymmetries — Plural form of dissymmetry.
  • dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
  • domesday book — a record of a survey of the lands of England made by order of William the Conqueror about 1086, giving ownership, extent, value, etc., of the properties.
  • doomsday book — Domesday Book.
  • doomsday cult — A doomsday cult is a religious cult whose members believe that the world is about to end.
  • down syndrome — Down syndrome is a disorder that some people are born with. People who have Down syndrome have physical differences, such as shorter stature, and learning difficulties.
  • dynamic scope — (language)   In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
  • dynamogenesis — the output of raised activity of the nervous system
  • dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • dysmenorrheic — Of, pertaining to, or experiencing dysmenorrhea.
  • dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
  • dysmorphology — The study of genetic defects, especially congenital malformations.
  • earnest money — money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.
  • east malaysia — part of Malaysia, consisting of the states of Sabah and Sarawak, which occupy the N part of the island of Borneo
  • easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
  • economy class — a low-priced type of accommodation for travel, especially on an airplane.
  • ectosymbionts — Plural form of ectosymbiont.
  • embarrassedly — In an embarrassed manner.
  • emotionlessly — Without emotion.
  • emphysematous — (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
  • empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
  • encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
  • endosymbiosis — Symbiosis in which one of the symbiotic organisms lives inside the other.
  • endosymbiotic — Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
  • epidermolysis — Loosening of the epidermis, with extensive blistering of the skin and mucous membranes, occurring either after injury, or as a spontaneous and potentially dangerous condition, particularly in children.
  • epistemically — In a manner that pertains to knowledge.
  • erythematosus — (pathology) An eruption of red lesions.
  • expert system — (artificial intelligence)   A computer program that contains a knowledge base and a set of algorithms or rules that infer new facts from knowledge and from incoming data. An expert system is an artificial intelligence application that uses a knowledge base of human expertise to aid in solving problems. The degree of problem solving is based on the quality of the data and rules obtained from the human expert. Expert systems are designed to perform at a human expert level. In practice, they will perform both well below and well above that of an individual expert. The expert system derives its answers by running the knowledge base through an inference engine, a software program that interacts with the user and processes the results from the rules and data in the knowledge base. Expert systems are used in applications such as medical diagnosis, equipment repair, investment analysis, financial, estate and insurance planning, route scheduling for delivery vehicles, contract bidding, counseling for self-service customers, production control and training.
  • false economy — an attempt to save money which actually leads to greater expense
  • family jewels — a man's genitals
  • family values — belief in traditional family unit
  • feudal system — the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.
  • filing system — file system
  • film industry — all the companies, studios, people etc involved in making commercial films collectively
  • fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
  • formal system — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
  • games library — a type of library for video games where games (usually downloaded via the internet) can be paid for per use rather than be bought at full price
  • giorgi system — a system of units based on the metre, kilogram, second, and ampere, in which the magnetic constant has the value 4π × 10–7 henries per metre. It was used as a basis for SI units
  • go swimmingly — If you say that something is going swimmingly, you mean that everything is happening in a satisfactory way, without any problems.
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
  • grey-thompson — Tanni (Carys Davina) Baroness. born 1969, Welsh wheelchair athlete; won eleven gold medals for Britain in wheelchair racing in the Paralympic Games (1988–2004); a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2010
  • gross anatomy — the branch of anatomy that deals with structures that can be seen with the naked eye.
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