13-letter words containing u, n, m, s
- brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
- bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
- burnham scale — the salary scale for teachers in English state schools, which is revised periodically
- bus mastering — bus master
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
- cantus firmus — an existing melody used as the basis for a new polyphonic composition
- carcinomatous — a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer.
- cat and mouse — Also called cat and rat. a children's game in which players in a circle keep a player from moving into or out of the circle and permit a second player to move into or out of the circle to escape the pursuing first player.
- cat-and-mouse — denoting a fight or contest in which participants attempt to confuse or deceive each other in a cruel or teasing way, esp before a final act of cruelty or unkindness
- cement slurry — Cement slurry is a mixture of Portland cement, water, and additives.
- ceremoniously — If someone does something ceremoniously, they do it in an extremely formal way.
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- cerumenolysis — (medicine) The process of softening cerumen (earwax) for removal.
- chain measure — measurement of distance using a chain 66 feet (20 meters) long, of which one link equals 7.9 inches (20.1 cm).
- chestnut clam — Astarte (def 2).
- chondromatous — a benign cartilaginous tumor or growth.
- chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
- churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
- cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
- circumcisions — Plural form of circumcision.
- circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
- circumstances — someone's financial situation
- clamorousness — The state or quality of being clamorous.
- cns stimulant — A CNS stimulant is any substance that stimulates the central nervous system.
- column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
- commensurable — having a common factor
- commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
- commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
- commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
- communalistic — Pertaining to communalism.
- communalities — the state or condition of being communal.
- communicators — Plural form of communicator.
- communisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of communization.
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- 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
- condylomatous — Relating to condyloma.
- consimilitude — the quality of resembling or of being mutually alike
- consumability — able or meant to be consumed, as by eating, drinking, or using: consumable goods.
- consumer unit — A consumer unit is a particular type of distribution board that controls and distributes electrical energy, especially in domestic premises.
- consumeristic — characterized by consumerism
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- consumptivity — consumptiveness
- 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.
- costimulation — Alternative spelling of co-stimulation.
- coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.