10-letter words containing m, e, r, i, a
- road movie — film in which story follows a journey
- roman mile — a unit of length used by the ancient Romans, equivalent to about 1620 yards (1480 meters).
- roman ride — a method of horseback riding in which a person stands astride a pair of horses.
- ropemaking — the act, skill, or process of fabricating rope.
- rosemaling — decorative work of Norwegian folk origin consisting of painted or carved floral designs, as on furniture or woodwork.
- rosemaries — a female given name.
- rudimental — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- rue family — the plant family Rutaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple or compound aromatic leaves, fragrant flowers, and fruit in a variety of forms, and including the citruses, the gas plant, Hercules'-club, and rue.
- ruminative — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
- run a mile — If you say that someone would run a mile when faced with a particular situation, you mean that they would be very frightened or unwilling to deal with it.
- saehrimnir — a boar that is roasted and served up every night in Valhalla and grows whole by morning.
- sail maker — someone whose occupation is to make and repair sails for boats
- samarskite — a velvet-black mineral, a complex columbate-tantalate of uranium, cerium, etc., occurring in masses: a minor source of uranium, thorium, and rare-earth oxides.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- seaborgium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Sg; atomic number: 106.
- seaquarium — an area of salt water where sea animals are kept so people can look at them
- secularism — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
- seismogram — a record made by a seismograph.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- semestrial — (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
- semiformal — partly formal; containing some formal elements: a semiformal occasion; semiformal attire.
- seminarian — a student in a theological seminary.
- semiquaver — a sixteenth note.
- semisacred — partly or somewhat sacred; sacred to a limited degree; having some characteristics of the sacred
- semiyearly — semiannual (def 1).
- separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
- sidestream — (of cigarette smoke) inhaled by passive smokers
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- slammerkin — a woman's loose dress
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds.
- smaragdite — a green, foliated member of the amphibole group.
- smartdrive — (storage, product) A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache.
- smattering — slight or superficial knowledge; smattering.
- spare time — leisure hours
- spermaceti — a pearly white, waxy, translucent solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale: used chiefly in cosmetics and candles, and as an emollient.
- spermarium — the sperm gland
- spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi
- spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- stadimeter — an instrument for determining the distance between an observer and an object of known height by measurement of the angle subtended by the object.
- steam iron — an electric iron with a water chamber, which emits steam onto the fabric or garment being ironed.
- steiermark — German name of Styria.
- streamline — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- streamling — a small stream
- streamside — the land on the sides of a stream.
- stromateid — any of numerous small marine fishes of the family Stromateidae, having a laterally compressed body and an expanded muscular esophagus, often lined with teeth.