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

  • 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.
  • sedimentology — the study of sedimentary rocks.
  • segmentalized — separated into parts, sections, elements, classes, etc.; compartmentalized: a segmentalized society.
  • 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.
  • sempstressing — the profession of being a seamstress
  • 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-masted — (of a boat) having a single mast
  • 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).
  • spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • 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.
  • strong-minded — having a forceful and independent mind.
  • suggestionism — the art of hypnotic suggestion
  • supplementing — something added to complete a thing, supply a deficiency, or reinforce or extend a whole.
  • 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.
  • telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
  • televangelism — Christian preaching on TV
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • thermogenesis — the production of heat, especially in an animal body by physiological processes.
  • thermosetting — pertaining to a type of plastic, as the urea resins, that sets when heated and cannot be remolded.
  • 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.
  • thinking time — time to think
  • tiger economy — an economy that maintains a high growth rate, originally referring to the relatively small economies of South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in East Asia.
  • timing device — a device that can be set to detonate a bomb at a particular time
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
  • tumorigenesis — the production or development of tumors.
  • unimaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
  • unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
  • unremittingly — not slackening or abating; incessant: unremitting noise; unremitting attention.
  • unstigmatized — to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.
  • untremblingly — not tremblingly; in an untrembling manner; without trembling
  • vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
  • visiting team — sports team playing away from home ground
  • watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
  • weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
  • whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
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