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

  • 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?
  • semievergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • semireligious — having a somewhat religious character.
  • semiwater gas — a mixed gas formed by passing steam and air over a carbon source
  • sempstressing — the profession of being a seamstress
  • 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
  • siege economy — an economy in which the export of capital is limited and import controls are imposed
  • sigmoidectomy — surgical removal of the sigmoid colon
  • sigmoidoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope for visual examination of the rectum and sigmoid colon.
  • sigmund freud — Anna, 1895–1982, British psychoanalyst, born in Austria (daughter of Sigmund Freud).
  • signed number — Mathematics. a number preceded by a plus sign (+) to indicate a positive quantity or by a minus sign (−) to indicate a negative quantity.
  • 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 mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
  • single-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
  • single-minded — having or showing a single aim or purpose: a single-minded program.
  • skin magazine — a magazine containing pornographic images
  • slimming diet — a diet with the aim of losing weight
  • 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
  • sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
  • spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
  • 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.
  • strong-minded — having a forceful and independent mind.
  • suggestionism — the art of hypnotic suggestion
  • superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
  • supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
  • supreme being — God.
  • swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
  • 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
  • telecommuting — working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment.
  • telegrammatic — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
  • telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
  • televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
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