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13-letter words containing a, l, m, e, r

  • direct-mailer — a person or firm engaged in direct-mail advertising.
  • 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
  • discriminable — capable of being discriminated or distinguished.
  • documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
  • domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
  • dreamlessness — The state or condition of being dreamless; lack of dreams.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • early-morning — taking place or being presented in the early part of the morning
  • elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
  • electrodermal — Of or relating to measurement of the electrical conductivity of the skin, especially as an indicator of someone’s emotional responses.
  • electromagnet — A soft metal core made into a magnet by the passage of electric current through a coil surrounding it.
  • electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed
  • elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
  • embarrassable — Capable of being embarrassed.
  • embarrassedly — In an embarrassed manner.
  • embranglement — Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled.
  • embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
  • embryonically — In an embryonic way.
  • empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
  • encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
  • enumerability — The condition of being enumerable.
  • environmental — Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition.
  • ephemeralness — The quality of being ephemeral or transitory.
  • equimolecular — (chemistry) Containing the same number of molecules (of two or more compounds).
  • ergonomically — In an ergonomic manner.
  • examinatorial — of or having to do with an examiner or examination
  • excimer laser — a type of gas laser that emits powerful pulses of ultraviolet radiation used in weapons, industrial, or medical research: this radiation is emitted as the short-lived excimers, dimeric molecules that can only exist when a component is energized into an excited state, return to their ground states
  • exemplariness — The state or condition of being exemplary, serving as a shining example.
  • exploratorium — A museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on manner.
  • extemporarily — In an extemporary manner.
  • extra-marital — An extra-marital affair is a sexual relationship between a married person and another person who is not their husband or wife.
  • extrafamilial — Outside a family.
  • extralimitary — outside the limits or borders of an area
  • extrametrical — exceeding the number of syllables normally used in a given metre
  • false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
  • familiarities — Plural form of familiarity.
  • family circle — the closely related members of a family as a group.
  • family credit — (formerly, in Britain) a means-tested allowance paid to low-earning families with one or more dependent children and one or both parents in work: replaced by Working Families' Tax Credit in 1999
  • family friend — intimate acquaintance of one's family
  • farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
  • farm-to-table — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • farmer's lung — a lung disorder caused by inhalation of moldy hay dust, marked by shortness of breath, dry cough, and weight loss.
  • 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.
  • female thread — a helical groove in a cylindrical hole formed by a tap or lathe tool
  • ferroaluminum — a ferroalloy containing up to 80 percent aluminum.
  • field marshal — an officer of the highest military rank in the British and certain other armies, and of the second highest rank in the French army.
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
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