13-letter words containing m, a, n, s, r
- preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- promised land — Heaven.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
- random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
- random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
- random-access — direct-access.
- ray tomlinson — (person) An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
- re-assessment — the act of assessing; appraisal; evaluation.
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- 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.
- reinstatement — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
- remeasurement — the process of measuring again
- remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
- remonstration — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remonstratory — characterized by protest or expostulation
- representamen — (in semiotics) a sign or signifier, whether physical or otherwise, which points to an object
- republicanism — republican government.
- restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
- resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- retransmitted — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
- rhyming slang — a form of slang in which a rhyming word or phrase is substituted for the word intended, as Kate and Sidney for steak and kidney or khaki rocks for army socks.
- ribosomal rna — a type of RNA, distinguished by its length and abundance, functioning in protein synthesis as a component of ribosomes. Abbreviation: rRNA.
- riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
- roman letters — a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
- romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- 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 marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
- sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- 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.
- sales manager — leader of a sales team