13-letter words containing m, e, i, g
- piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
- plasma engine — an engine that generates thrust by reaction to the emission of a jet of plasma
- playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- polemological — the analysis of human conflict and war, particularly international war.
- polygamophile — a person who approves of or countenances polygamy, especially as practiced by others.
- post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- practice game — any informal game (of sports, chess, etc) played as preparation for a real game
- pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- primitive gut — archenteron.
- primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- progressivism — the principles and practices of progressives.
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- queue-jumping — If you accuse someone of queue-jumping, you mean that they are trying to get to the front of a queue or waiting list unfairly.
- quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
- radiotelegram — a message transmitted by radiotelegraphy.
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- reconsignment — a consigning again.
- reggio emilia — a city in N Italy.
- regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
- 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
- remythologize — to mythologize anew, to make a new mythological system out of (an existing one)
- retromingency — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
- riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
- river red gum — a large Australian red gum tree, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, growing along river banks
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- 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
- second coming — the coming of Christ on Judgment Day.
- sedimentology — the study of sedimentary rocks.
- segmentalized — separated into parts, sections, elements, classes, etc.; compartmentalized: a segmentalized society.
- self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- self-limiting — limiting oneself or itself: a self-limiting authority.