13-letter words containing l, i, m, e
- single-minded — having or showing a single aim or purpose: a single-minded program.
- slàinte mhath — a drinking toast; cheers
- slasher movie — a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc
- slimming diet — a diet with the aim of losing weight
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- small calorie — Thermodynamics. calorie (def 1a).
- smooth collie — a breed of short-haired collie with a smooth, thick coat.
- 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
- social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
- solemnization — to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
- somniloquence — sleep-talking
- sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
- spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
- splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- splenectomize — to remove the spleen from
- 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.
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- 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.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
- state militia — (formerly) a force composed of the citizens of a state
- statesmanlike — a person who is experienced in the art of government or versed in the administration of government affairs.
- steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- 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.
- sublime porte — official name of Porte.
- submillimeter — less than a millimeter in size: a submillimeter wave.
- submillimetre — a microscopic division of a millimetre
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- sulfadimidine — an antibacterial sulfa drug used in human and veterinary medicine. It is effective against chlamydia, toxoplasma, and cocidia
- sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
- sulfanilamide — a white, crystalline amide of sulfanilic acid, C 6 H 8 N 2 O 2 S, formerly used in the treatment of bacterial infections: replaced by its derivatives and by antibiotics.
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
- superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
- supermilitant — highly militant
- supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
- supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
- sutter's mill — the location in California, NE of Sacramento, near which gold was discovered in 1848, precipitating the gold rush of 1849.
- sweet william — a pink, Dianthus barbatus, having clusters of small, variously colored flowers.
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
- tail assembly — the tail part of a plane
- 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.
- telecommuting — working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment.
- telefacsimile — facsimile (def 2).
- telegrammatic — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
- telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.