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13-letter words that end in m

  • dress uniform — U.S. Air Force. a uniform consisting of the coat and trousers of the service uniform, with a white shirt and black bow tie, worn for formal occasions.
  • dressing room — a room for use in getting dressed, especially one for performers backstage in a theater, television studio, etc.
  • drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • ease the helm — to relieve the pressure on the rudder of a vessel, esp by bringing the bow into the wind
  • ecumenicalism — the doctrines and practices of the ecumenical movement.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • electromerism — a type of tautomerism in which the isomers (electromers) differ in the distribution of charge in their molecules
  • electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed
  • encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
  • encyclopedism — Comprehensive learning or knowledge.
  • end of medium — (character)   (EM) ASCII character 25.
  • epigrammatism — The use of epigrams; epigrammatical character.
  • equestrianism — The skill or sport of horse riding . As an Olympic sport it is divided into three disciplines: show jumping, dressage, and the three-day event (combining show jumping, dressage, and cross-country riding).
  • ethnocentrism — The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
  • ethnophaulism — An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided. For example,
  • eurocommunism — the policies, doctrines, and practices of Communist Parties in Western Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, esp those rejecting democratic centralism and favouring nonalignment with the Soviet Union and China
  • exhibitionism — Extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself.
  • 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.
  • exploratorium — A museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on manner.
  • expressionism — A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
  • fast telegram — a type of domestic telegram sent at full rate with a minimum charge for 10 words or less and accepted for immediate delivery.
  • feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • feeder stream — a tributary that feeds into a larger river, canal, etc
  • female condom — a type of condom used by women and inserted into the vagina
  • ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
  • ferrochromium — a ferroalloy containing up to 70 percent chromium.
  • ferrotitanium — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent titanium.
  • ferrovanadium — a ferroalloy containing up to 55 percent vanadium.
  • 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.
  • feuilletonism — The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
  • filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
  • filing system — file system
  • fill-out form — (programming)   A type of user interface used, for example, on the web, to organise a set of questions or options for the user so that it resembles a traditional paper form that is filled out. Typical query types are: fill-in-the-blank (text), menu of options, select zero or more, or select exactly one ("radio buttons"). Most web browsers support fill-out forms. Overview.
  • fish geranium — zonal geranium.
  • fleet air arm — the aviation branch of the Royal Navy
  • floral emblem — a flower or plant serving as the emblem of a city, state, nation, etc.
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • 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
  • fractionalism — the state of being separate or inharmonious
  • french system — a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.
  • fringilliform — resembling a finch
  • function room — a room designated for official or formal social gatherings or ceremonies
  • functionalism — (usually initial capital letter) Chiefly Architecture, Furniture. a design movement evolved from several previous movements or schools in Europe in the early 20th century, advocating the design of buildings, furnishings, etc., as direct fulfillments of material requirements, as for shelter, repose, or the serving of food, with the construction, materials, and purpose clearly expressed or at least not denied, and with aesthetic effect derived chiefly from proportions and finish, purely decorative effects being excluded or greatly subordinated. the doctrines and practices associated with this movement. Compare rationalism (def 4).
  • gallop rhythm — an abnormal heart rhythm characterized by three clear sounds in each beat, resembling the sound of a horse's gallop.
  • garden balsam — a fleshy annual garden impatiens (Impatiens balsamina) with roselike white, lavender, yellow, pink, or red blossoms borne along the main stem in leaf axils
  • generationism — the belief that some generations are superior to others
  • geocentricism — the belief that the earth lies at the centre of the universe
  • 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
  • glacier cream — a barrier cream, esp against ultraviolet radiation, used when climbing above the snow line
  • grain sorghum — any of several varieties of sorghum, as durra or milo, having starchy seeds, grown for grain and forage.
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