13-letter words containing t, e, m, l, s
- 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
- come to blows — to fight
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- commercialist — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
- commonalities — Plural form of commonality.
- commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- completedness — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completer set — a set of supplementary pieces that completes a set of dishes, as creamer, sugar bowl, platter, gravy boat, and vegetable dish.
- completionist — (in a video game) a player who attempts to complete every challenge and earn every achievement or trophy: I’m not really a completionist, so I skipped the side missions and focused on the main story quests.
- comstock lode — an extensive gold and silver vein in W Nevada, near Virginia City
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conglomerates — anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements.
- consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- contemplatist — a contemplator
- contemplators — Plural form of contemplator.
- contextualism — (in motion-picture criticism) the theory that all incidents in a film must be viewed in the social, political, and cultural context with which the film concerns itself and in which it was made.
- corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
- cosmeceutical — a cosmetic that has, or is claimed to have, pharmaceutical properties
- cosmetologist — a person skilled or trained in the use of cosmetics and beauty treatments
- cosmothetical — cosmothetic
- coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- dalton system — a method of progressive education whereby students contract to carry through on their own responsibility the year's work as divided up into monthly assignments.
- dame's violet — a Eurasian hairy perennial plant, Hesperis matronalis, cultivated in gardens for its mauve or white fragrant flowers: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- declinometers — Plural form of declinometer.
- delimitations — Plural form of delimitation.
- dematerialise — Alternative spelling of dematerialize.
- demilitarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demilitarize.
- demolitionist — an act or instance of demolishing.
- demythologise — to divest of mythological or legendary attributes or forms, as in order to permit clearer appraisal and understanding: to demythologize the music dramas of Richard Wagner for modern listeners.
- dermatologies — Plural form of dermatology.
- dermatologist — A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the study of skin and the treatment of skin diseases.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- dermoskeleton — (anatomy) An exoskeleton.
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
- dirty realism — a style of writing, originating in the US in the 1980s, which depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life
- disassimilate — to break down (a complex molecule or substance) into simple ones through catabolism
- disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- disenrollment — to dismiss or cause to become removed from a program of training, care, etc.: The academy disenrolled a dozen cadets.
- disentailment — The action of freeing property from entail.
- disilluminate — to darken
- dismantlement — to deprive or strip of apparatus, furniture, equipment, defenses, etc.: to dismantle a ship; to dismantle a fortress.