13-letter words containing e, m, r, g, n
- pre-agreement — the act of agreeing or of coming to a mutual arrangement.
- pre-emergence — of or relating to the period prior to emergence of something
- pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- progovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- prolegomenous — prefatory; preliminary; introductory.
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- re-engagement — the reinstatement of an employee
- re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- rearrangement — an act of arranging; state of being arranged.
- reconsignment — a consigning again.
- regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
- regimentation — the act of regimenting or the state of being regimented.
- regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
- retromingency — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
- riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
- roentgenogram — a photograph made with x-rays.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- rumour-monger — If you call someone a rumour-monger, you disapprove of the fact that they spread rumours.
- run the gamut — The gamut of something is the complete range of things of that kind, or a wide variety of things of that kind.
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety
- sales manager — leader of a sales team
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
- seafaring man — a sailor
- semievergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
- semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
- sempstressing — the profession of being a seamstress
- 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
- sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
- signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
- 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
- single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- 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
- stage manager — a person responsible for the technical details of a theatrical production, assisting the director during rehearsal, supervising the lighting, costuming, setting, prompting, etc., and assuming full responsibility for the stage during a performance of a play.
- store manager — sb who runs a shop
- strong-minded — having a forceful and independent mind.
- subgovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.