13-letter words containing i, m, a, r, e, t
- riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
- ritual murder — a human sacrifice made to appease a deity.
- romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- saccharimeter — an optical instrument for determining the strength of sugar solutions by measuring the rotation of the plane of polarized light they produce.
- saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety
- saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
- 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.
- semi-abstract — pertaining to or designating a style of painting or sculpture in which the subject remains recognizable although the forms are highly stylized in a manner derived from abstract art.
- semi-parasite — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semimenstrual — (esp of tides) occurring twice monthly
- semiparasitic — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
- semipermanent — not quite permanent.
- semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
- semiwater gas — a mixed gas formed by passing steam and air over a carbon source
- senior master — a male teacher in a senior position
- septempartite — separated into seven sections.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- 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.
- 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
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
- superdominant — submediant.