13-letter words containing a, i, r, e, m
- share premium — the excess of the amount actually subscribed for an issue of corporate capital over its par value
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sidereal time — time measured by the diurnal motion of stars. A sidereal day is about four minutes shorter than a solar day, with hours, minutes, and seconds all proportionally shorter.
- sierra morena — a mountain range in SW Spain, between the Guadiana and Guadalquivir Rivers. Highest peak: Estrella, 1299 m (4262 ft)
- silver salmon — coho salmon.
- simware, inc. — (company) The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
- single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- small calorie — Thermodynamics. calorie (def 1a).
- smear tactics — actions designed to slander another person or organization in order to damage their reputation
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- sodium borate — borax1 .
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
- spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.
- splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- squandermania — an extreme urge for, or level of pleasure obtained by, spending money recklessly
- square matrix — a matrix in which the number of rows is equal to the number of columns.
- stain remover — a substance designed for removing stains or dirty marks, as from clothes, carpets, etc
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- standard time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
- static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
- stationmaster — a person in charge of a railroad station; station agent.
- steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
- steamer chair — deck chair.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
- stratum title — a system of registered ownership of space in multistorey buildings, to be equivalent to the ownership of the land of a single-storey building
- striped maple — a maple, Acer pensylvanicum, of northeastern North America, having white-striped bark.
- submarine pen — a bunker that prevents submarines from bombs
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
- superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
- superdominant — submediant.
- superhumanize — to make superhuman, or represent as such
- supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
- supermilitant — highly militant
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- superromantic — exceptionally romantic
- swimmer's ear — an inflammation of the outer ear occurring in persons who swim for long periods or fail to dry the ears.
- symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.