13-letter words containing m, a, r, e, s, n
- 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
- salmon ladder — a series of steps in a river designed to enable salmon to bypass a dam and move upstream to their breeding grounds
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- 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
- seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
- self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
- semi-darkness — partial darkness
- semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
- semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
- semimenstrual — (esp of tides) occurring twice monthly
- seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
- semipermanent — not quite permanent.
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
- senior airman — a noncommissioned officer ranking between a staff sergeant and airman first class. Abbreviation: SrA.
- senior master — a male teacher in a senior position
- serial number — a number, usually one of a series, assigned for identification: the serial number of an automobile engine.
- serum albumin — Biochemistry. the principal protein of blood plasma, important in osmotic regulation of the blood and transport of metabolites.
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- 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
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
- sierra morena — a mountain range in SW Spain, between the Guadiana and Guadalquivir Rivers. Highest peak: Estrella, 1299 m (4262 ft)
- silver salmon — coho salmon.
- simware, inc. — (company) The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
- 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).
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- snake charmer — an entertainer who seems to charm venomous snakes, usually by music.
- somatosensory — of or relating to sensations that involve parts of the body not associated with the primary sense organs.
- spa treatment — a non-medical procedure to help the health of the body, such as a massage
- 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
- spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- squandermania — an extreme urge for, or level of pleasure obtained by, spending money recklessly
- square number — a number that is the square of another integer, as 1 of 1, 4 of 2, 9 of 3, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- standover man — a person who extorts money by intimidation
- stationmaster — a person in charge of a railroad station; station agent.