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13-letter words containing m, e, g, a, i

  • 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.
  • register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
  • riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
  • rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • sales meeting — briefing of sales representatives
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • 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
  • segmentalized — separated into parts, sections, elements, classes, etc.; compartmentalized: a segmentalized society.
  • self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
  • self-managing — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • semiwater gas — a mixed gas formed by passing steam and air over a carbon source
  • sexagesimally — into sixtieths
  • 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
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • 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
  • single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
  • single-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
  • skin magazine — a magazine containing pornographic images
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • specimen page — a page regarded as typical of pages of its type, esp one produced by a typesetter or designer to show an example of the typesetting for a book
  • speech making — act of addressing the public formally
  • 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
  • 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.
  • staff meeting — company gathering of employees
  • stamen blight — a disease of blackberries, characterized by a gray, powdery mass of spores covering the anthers, caused by a fungus, Hapalosphaeria deformans.
  • steam heating — a heating system utilizing steam circulated through radiators and pipes.
  • sterculia gum — karaya gum.
  • stoppage time — In soccer and some other sports, stoppage time is the period of time that is added to the end of a game because play was stopped during the game as a result of, for example, injuries to players.
  • straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
  • superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • team teaching — a system whereby two or more teachers pool their skills, knowledge, etc, to teach combined classes
  • telegrammatic — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
  • telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
  • televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
  • the hermitage — an art museum in St Petersburg, originally a palace built by Catherine the Great
  • thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tzom gedaliah — a Jewish fast day observed on the third day of the month of Tishri in memory of the treacherous murder of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.
  • ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
  • under-meaning — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
  • unimaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
  • unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
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