13-letter words containing m, a, r, i, t, n
- reaction time — the interval between stimulation and response.
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reaffirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- reappointment — a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement: We made an appointment to meet again.
- recombination — any of several processes by which genetic material of different origins becomes combined. It most commonly occurs between two sets of parental chromosomes during production of germ cells
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- recontaminate — to contaminate (an area, person, hands, etc) again
- recrimination — the act of recriminating, or countercharging: Hope gave way to recrimination with both sides claiming the moral high ground.
- reexamination — further study or inspection
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- reformulation — to formulate again.
- regimentation — the act of regimenting or the state of being regimented.
- 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.
- remonstration — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- 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.
- rhadamanthine — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
- rhythmization — the act or process of rhythmizing something
- riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
- 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
- romanticality — the state or quality of being romantic
- romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- 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.
- sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
- sanitarianism — the study of sanitation
- 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.
- semimenstrual — (esp of tides) occurring twice monthly
- semipermanent — not quite permanent.
- semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
- senior master — a male teacher in a senior position
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- 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).
- snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- 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.
- sportsmanship — the character, practice, or skill of a sportsman.
- 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.
- standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.