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13-letter words containing e, t, y, m

  • spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
  • spoils system — the system or practice in which public offices with their emoluments and advantages are at the disposal of the victorious party for its own purposes.
  • sprint medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards, the second and third members run 220 yards each, and the fourth member runs 880 yards.
  • stalagmometry — measurement of drops of liquid using a staktometer
  • static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
  • stereo system — a system for recording, reproducing, or broadcasting sound using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels in order to give a spatial effect to the sound
  • stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
  • stormy petrel — the British storm petrel, Hydrobates pelagicus, of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean.
  • stuffed dummy — someone who says or does nothing and is generally inanimate and characterless
  • subemployment — insufficient employment in the labor force of a country, area, or industry, including unemployment and underemployment.
  • supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
  • supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
  • supersymmetry — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
  • supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
  • sweet alyssum — a garden plant, Lobularia maritima, of the mustard family, having narrow leaves and small, white or violet flowers.
  • symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • sympiesometer — a barometer using a gas, rather than a vacuum, to measure pressure
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • syndesmectomy — excision of part of a ligament.
  • systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
  • systematology — the science of systems or their formation.
  • systemization — systematize.
  • t-stop system — a system of stops calibrated by T numbers.
  • tail assembly — the tail part of a plane
  • take by storm — be a sudden success
  • take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
  • takeaway meal — a meal which is ordered and made in a restaurant and is then taken away to be eaten at home or elsewhere
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • teasel family — the plant family Dipsacaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having opposite or whorled leaves, dense flower heads surrounded by an involucre, and small, dry fruit, and including the scabious and teasel.
  • temerariously — in an audacious manner
  • tempestuously — characterized by or subject to tempests: the tempestuous ocean.
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • terminatively — in a finalizing manner
  • tetradynamous — having four long and two short stamens, as a cruciferous flower.
  • the archenemy — the devil
  • the heavy mob — a group of heavies or enforcers
  • the himalayas — a vast mountain system in S Asia, extending 2400 km (1500 miles) from Kashmir (west) to Assam (east), between the valleys of the Rivers Indus and Brahmaputra: covers most of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the S edge of Tibet; the highest range in the world, with several peaks over 7500 m (25 000 ft). Highest peak: Mount Everest, 8848 m (29 028 ft)
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thermotherapy — treatment of disease by means of moist or dry heat.
  • thremmatology — the science of breeding or propagating animals and plants under domestication.
  • thyroidectomy — excision of all or a part of the thyroid gland.
  • tiger economy — an economy that maintains a high growth rate, originally referring to the relatively small economies of South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in East Asia.
  • time is money — don't waste time
  • token economy — a method of encouraging desirable behavior, especially in a hospital setting, by offering rewards of token money that can be exchanged for special food, access to television, and other bonuses.
  • token payment — a small payment binding an agreement or acknowledging a debt.
  • tom and jerry — a hot drink made of rum and water or milk, beaten eggs, spices, and sugar.
  • tompot blenny — a variety of blenny (Parablennius gattorugine), with tentacles over its eyes
  • tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.
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