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13-letter words containing m, e, r, l

  • stormy petrel — the British storm petrel, Hydrobates pelagicus, of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean.
  • stratum title — a system of registered ownership of space in multistorey buildings, to be equivalent to the ownership of the land of a single-storey building
  • striped maple — a maple, Acer pensylvanicum, of northeastern North America, having white-striped bark.
  • sublime porte — official name of Porte.
  • submillimeter — less than a millimeter in size: a submillimeter wave.
  • submillimetre — a microscopic division of a millimetre
  • subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
  • sulfamerazine — a sulfa drug, C11H12N4O2S, a methyl derivative of sulfadiazine that is more rapidly absorbed
  • summer school — study programs offered by a school, college, or university during the summer to those who wish to obtain their degrees more quickly, who must make up credits, or who wish to supplement their education.
  • sumo wrestler — Japanese wrestling sportsman
  • supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
  • supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
  • superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
  • supermilitant — highly militant
  • supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
  • supersalesman — an extremely skillful and effective salesperson.
  • supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
  • supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
  • supratemporal — situated above the upper part of the temporal bone or region.
  • sutter's mill — the location in California, NE of Sacramento, near which gold was discovered in 1848, precipitating the gold rush of 1849.
  • symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • syringomyelia — a disease of the spinal cord in which the nerve tissue is replaced by a cavity filled with fluid.
  • table manners — etiquette when eating
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tandem roller — a type of road roller in which the front and back wheels consist of rollers of about the same diameter
  • telegrammatic — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
  • telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
  • telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
  • temerariously — in an audacious manner
  • temperamental — having or exhibiting a strongly marked, individual temperament.
  • temple orange — a hybrid fruit, Citrus nobilis, that is a cross between the sweet orange and the tangerine.
  • temporal bone — either of a pair of thick compound bones forming the part of the skull that encases the inner ear.
  • temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
  • temporal lobe — the lateral lobe of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the occipital lobe.
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • terbium metal — any of a subgroup of rare-earth metals, of which the cerium and yttrium metals comprise the other two subgroups.
  • terminal post — A terminal post is the terminal on a battery to which the battery lead is attached.
  • terminatively — in a finalizing manner
  • the long term — the time some years ahead, (as opposed to the immediate future)
  • the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
  • theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
  • thermal baths — warm water spa
  • thermal noise — a wide spectrum of electromagnetic noise appearing in electronic circuits and devices as a result of the temperature-dependent random motions of electrons and other charge carriers.
  • thermal paper — heat-sensitive paper that is impregnated with a chemical; it is used in thermal printers
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermoelement — a device made up of a heating mechanism and a thermocouple and used to measure small currents
  • thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
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