18-letter words that end in sm
- anti-commercialism — the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce.
- anti-scholasticism — narrow adherence to traditional teachings, doctrines, or methods.
- antiferromagnetism — the phenomenon exhibited by substances that resemble paramagnetic substances in the value of their relative permeability but that behave like ferromagnetic substances when their temperature is varied
- chronic alcoholism — long-term alcohol addiction
- circular dichroism — selective absorption of one of the two possible circular polarizations of light.
- citizen journalism — the involvement of non-professionals in reporting news, esp in blogs and other websites
- complementarianism — The doctrine that genders in a society should have complementary roles.
- conceptual realism — the doctrine that universals have real and independent existence.
- consumer terrorism — the practice of introducing dangerous substances to foodstuffs or other consumer products, esp to extort money from the manufacturers
- counterculturalism — The counterculture movement or lifestyle.
- creeping featurism — (jargon) /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ (Or "feature creep") A systematic tendency to load more chrome and features onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed. "The main problem with BSD Unix has always been creeping featurism." More generally, creeping featurism is the tendency for anything to become more complicated because people keep saying "Gee, it would be even better if it had this feature too". The result is usually a patchwork because it grew one ad-hoc step at a time, rather than being planned. Planning is a lot of work, but it's easy to add just one extra little feature to help someone, and then another, and another, .... When creeping featurism gets out of hand, it's like a cancer. Usually this term is used to describe computer programs, but it could also be said of the federal government, the IRS 1040 form, and new cars. A similar phenomenon sometimes afflicts conscious redesigns; see second-system effect. See also creeping elegance.
- cultural pluralism — a condition in which minority groups participate fully in the dominant society, yet maintain their cultural differences.
- deanthropomorphism — the ridding of philosophy or religion of anthropomorphic beliefs and doctrines.
- destruct mechanism — a mechanism that causes the destruction of a rocket or missile when activated
- diastereoisomerism — (chemistry) Any form of stereoisomerism other than enantiomerism.
- entrepreneurialism — The spirit or state of acting in an entrepreneurial manner.
- feeping creaturism — /fee'ping kree"ch*r-izm/ A deliberate spoonerism for creeping featurism, meant to imply that the system or program in question has become a misshapen creature of hacks. This term isn"t really well defined, but it sounds so neat that most hackers have said or heard it. It is probably reinforced by an image of terminals prowling about in the dark making their customary noises.
- hyperaldosteronism — aldosteronism.
- hypoparathyroidism — Diminished concentration of parathyroid hormone in the blood, which causes deficiencies of calcium and phosphorus compounds in the blood and results in muscular spasms.
- inner automorphism — an automorphism that maps an element x into an element of the form axa −1 where a −1 is the inverse of a.
- literary criticism — study and review of literature
- logical positivism — a philosophical movement that stresses the function of philosophy as a method of criticizing and analyzing science and that rejects all transcendental metaphysics, statements of fact being held to be meaningful only if they have verifiable consequences in experience and in statements of logic, mathematics, or philosophy itself, and with such statements of fact deriving their validity from the rules of language.
- national socialism — the principles and practices of the Nazi party in Germany.
- neo-pythagoreanism — a philosophical system, established in Alexandria and Rome in the second century b.c., consisting mainly of revived Pythagorean doctrines with elements of Platonism and Stoicism.
- noninterventionism — A policy of non-intervention.
- nonpreferentialism — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
- objective idealism — a form of idealism asserting that the act of experiencing has a reality combining and transcending the natures of the object experienced and of the mind of the observer.
- outer automorphism — an automorphism that is not an inner automorphism.
- parliamentarianism — advocacy of a parliamentary system of government.
- post-impressionism — a varied development of Impressionism by a group of painters chiefly between 1880 and 1900 stressing formal structure, as with Cézanne and Seurat, or the expressive possibilities of form and color, as with Van Gogh and Gauguin.
- postmillenarianism — postmillennialism.
- pulmonary embolism — the blockage of a pulmonary artery, often by a blood clot, that stops the flow of blood to the lungs and which can result in death if untreated
- radical empiricism — (in the philosophy of William James) the doctrine that the only proper subject matter of philosophy is that which can be defined in terms of experience, and that relations are a part of experience.
- remanent magnetism — magnetization in minerals induced by a former magnetic field and persisting after the field changes.
- residual magnetism — remanence.
- survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
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