13-letter words that end in ism
- occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
- organotropism — Physiology. the attraction of microorganisms or chemical substances to particular organs or tissues of the body.
- ornamentalism — the desire or tendency to feature ornament in the design of buildings, interiors, furnishings, etc.
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
- panaesthetism — the belief that consciousness may be present in all matter
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- paramagnetism — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- parasitoidism — the feeding by certain insect larvae on host tissues such that the host remains alive until larval development is complete and then usually dies.
- particularism — exclusive attention or devotion to one's own particular interests, party, etc.
- pathomorphism — abnormal morphology.
- pedestrianism — the exercise or practice of walking.
- pentatonicism — the use of a five-tone scale.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- peripheralism — the explanation of psychological events emphasizing peripheral human functions, as those of skeletal muscles or the sex organs, rather than cognition or other processes of the central nervous system.
- perspectivism — the doctrine that reality is known only in terms of the perspectives of it seen by individuals or groups at particular moments.
- phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
- phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- philhellenism — a friend or supporter of the Greeks.
- photochromism — the reversible transformation of something's colour due to exposure to electromagnetic radiation such as sunlight
- plagiotropism — plagiotropic tendency or growth.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- polynomialism — a polynomial naming system
- polysyllabism — a polysyllabic style or the use of multisyllabic words
- polysyllogism — an argument made up of a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each being a premise of the one following, until the last one.
- post-feminism — a way of thinking that develops, or reacts to or against previous feminist ideology
- postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
- praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
- progressivism — the principles and practices of progressives.
- protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- republicanism — republican government.
- retributivism — a policy or theory of criminal justice that advocates the punishment of criminals in retribution for the harm they have inflicted.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- sadomasochism — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
- sanitarianism — the study of sanitation
- sansculottism — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
- scholasticism — (sometimes initial capital letter) the system of theological and philosophical teaching predominant in the Middle Ages, based chiefly upon the authority of the church fathers and of Aristotle and his commentators.
- scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
- selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
- semi-nomadism — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- short-termism — If you accuse people of short-termism, you mean that they make decisions that produce benefits now or soon, rather than making better decisions that will produce benefits in the future.
- sociocentrism — oriented toward or focused on one's own social group.