13-letter words containing m, e, n, s
- question time — a time set aside in a session during which members of a parliament may question a minister or ministers regarding state affairs.
- quindicessima — (music) Two octaves higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up two octaves. Abbreviation: 15ma.
- quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
- quinquenniums — Plural form of quinquennium.
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
- random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
- random-access — direct-access.
- re-assessment — the act of assessing; appraisal; evaluation.
- re-enlistment — the act or state of being re-enlisted into the armed forces
- re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
- recompression — the act or process of compressing something again
- reconsignment — a consigning again.
- redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- 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.
- reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
- reindeer moss — any of several lichens of the genus Cladonia, especially the gray, many-branched C. rangiferina, of arctic and subarctic regions, eaten by reindeer and caribou.
- reinstatement — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
- remeasurement — the process of measuring again
- reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
- remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
- remonstration — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remonstratory — characterized by protest or expostulation
- remote sensor — any instrument, such as a radar device or camera, that scans the earth or another planet from space in order to collect data about some aspect of it
- replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- representamen — (in semiotics) a sign or signifier, whether physical or otherwise, which points to an object
- representment — an act of representing or an instance thereof
- republicanism — republican government.
- response time — Psychology. the time consumed in making a response.
- restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
- resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- retransmitted — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
- roman letters — a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
- 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.
- rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
- royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
- sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety