13-letter words containing m, a, r, t, s
- 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.
- sample letter — an example of a particular type of letter intended to show people how to construct their own letter
- samuel slater — Samuel, 1768–1835, U.S. industrialist, born in England.
- 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
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- scatterometer — a radar sensor for measuring the backscatter of light from the ocean's surface
- scimitar foot — any short leg or foot, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an arc tangent to the floor plane.
- 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.
- scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
- seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
- 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.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- 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.
- simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
- 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).
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- smear tactics — actions designed to slander another person or organization in order to damage their reputation
- smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
- snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
- 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
- sociodramatic — a method of group psychotherapy in which each patient assumes and dramatizes a variety of roles, usually focusing on problems and conflicts arising in group situations.
- sodium borate — borax1 .
- somatosensory — of or relating to sensations that involve parts of the body not associated with the primary sense organs.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- spa treatment — a non-medical procedure to help the health of the body, such as a massage
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- sparcsystem 4 — (computer) A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
- spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
- spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- spermatophore — a capsule surrounding a mass of spermatozoa, produced by the male of various animal species and transferred to the female.
- spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
- spermatorrhea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.