13-letter words containing d, e, r, m, a
- romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
- rond de jambe — a circular movement of the leg.
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
- royal academy — a society founded in 1768 by George III of England for the establishment of a school of design and the holding of an annual exhibition of the works of living artists.
- rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- sacred bamboo — nandina.
- salmon ladder — a series of steps in a river designed to enable salmon to bypass a dam and move upstream to their breeding grounds
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
- self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
- self-pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
- semi-darkness — partial darkness
- semicarbazide — an organic nitrogen compound derived from urea
- semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
- semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
- serum disease — a generalized allergic reaction to a foreign serum or drug, characterized by fever, skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and painful joints.
- shear modulus — The shear modulus of a material is how stiff or rigid it is. It is equal to the shear stress divided by the shear strain.
- shoulder arms — to bring the rifle vertically close to the right side with the muzzle uppermost and held at the trigger guard
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- 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.
- sodium borate — borax1 .
- spreader beam — a crosspiece for spacing the chains or cables hanging from the boom of a crane.
- squandermania — an extreme urge for, or level of pleasure obtained by, spending money recklessly
- 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.
- standover man — a person who extorts money by intimidation
- striped maple — a maple, Acer pensylvanicum, of northeastern North America, having white-striped bark.
- stuffed derma — kishke.
- subdepartment — a distinct part of anything arranged in divisions; a division of a complex whole or organized system.
- superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
- superdominant — submediant.
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- tandem roller — a type of road roller in which the front and back wheels consist of rollers of about the same diameter
- tetradynamous — having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
- the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
- the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thermostatted — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- thiocarbamide — thiourea.
- third baseman — the player whose position is third base.
- thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
- timber-framed — framed by exposed timbers
- timed-release — sustained-release.
- tinker's damn — the least value or merit; nothing or anything at all: It's not worth a tinker's damn.
- tom and jerry — a hot drink made of rum and water or milk, beaten eggs, spices, and sugar.
- trade embargo — a government order imposing a trade barrier
- trade mission — commercial business trip