13-letter words containing l, a, m, e, s
- commercialise — to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
- commercialism — Commercialism is the practice of making a lot of money from things without caring about their quality.
- 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.
- companionless — Without a companion; friendless, alone.
- compass plane — a plane for smoothing curved surfaces.
- complacencies — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- compressional — relating to compression
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
- 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.
- 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.
- cosmeceutical — a cosmetic that has, or is claimed to have, pharmaceutical properties
- cosmochemical — relating to cosmochemistry
- cosmothetical — cosmothetic
- counterclaims — Plural form of counterclaim.
- crack a smile — to break into a smile
- craftsmanlike — Resembling or characteristic of a craftsman.
- cramer's rule — a method involving the determinant of the coefficients, for calculating a unique solution for a given system of linear equations.
- credentialism — a tendency to value formal qualifications, esp at the expense of competence and experience
- criminalities — Plural form of criminality.
- 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)
- dar es salaam — the chief port of Tanzania, on the Indian Ocean: capital of German East Africa (1891–1916); capital of Tanzania until 1983 when it was officially replaced by Dodoma, though still retaining some functions; university (1963). Pop: 2 683 000 (2005 est)
- decriminalise — Alternative spelling of decriminalize.
- defamiliarise — Alternative spelling of defamiliarize.
- delimitations — Plural form of delimitation.
- demasculinise — Alternative spelling of demasculinize.
- demasculinize — Medicine/Medical. to produce certain male secondary sex characteristics in (a female).
- dematerialise — Alternative spelling of dematerialize.
- demilitarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demilitarize.
- demineralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demineralize.
- 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
- desublimation — (physics) deposition (transformation of gas into solid without an intermediate liquid phase).
- dichlamydeous — (of a flower) having a corolla and calyx
- dilettanteism — The condition of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
- dimensionally — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- 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
- disassembling — Present participle of disassemble.
- disassimilate — to break down (a complex molecule or substance) into simple ones through catabolism
- discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
- disentailment — The action of freeing property from entail.
- disilluminate — to darken