13-letter words containing m, e, s, n
- saint matthew — a tax collector of Capernaum called by Christ to be one of the 12 apostles (Matthew 9:9–13; 10:3). Feast day: Sept 21 or Nov 16
- saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
- saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8
- saint-émilion — a dry claret wine from the parish of St.-Émilion in the Bordeaux region of France.
- sales manager — leader of a sales team
- sales meeting — briefing of sales representatives
- salmon ladder — a series of steps in a river designed to enable salmon to bypass a dam and move upstream to their breeding grounds
- salmonellosis — food poisoning caused by consumption of food contaminated with bacteria of the genus Salmonella, characterized by the sudden onset of abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- sand bluestem — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes.
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
- 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.
- screen memory — a childhood memory, perhaps recalled falsely, that screens out a more distressing recollection.
- seafaring man — a sailor
- second coming — the coming of Christ on Judgment Day.
- second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
- sedimentation — the deposition or accumulation of sediment.
- sedimentology — the study of sedimentary rocks.
- seed merchant — someone that collects, packages and sells seeds
- segmentalized — separated into parts, sections, elements, classes, etc.; compartmentalized: a segmentalized society.
- selenium cell — a photovoltaic cell consisting of a thin strip of selenium placed between two metal electrodes.
- selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
- self-assuming — taking too much for granted; presumptuous.
- self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
- self-immunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
- self-judgment — the act or fact of judging oneself.
- self-limiting — limiting oneself or itself: a self-limiting authority.
- self-luminous — radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
- 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?
- semi-autonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
- semi-darkness — partial darkness
- semi-finalist — A semi-finalist is a player, athlete, or team that is competing in a semi-final.
- semi-nomadism — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
- semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
- semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
- semiconscious — half-conscious; not fully conscious.
- semidominance — incomplete dominance.
- semievergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
- semifurnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
- semimenstrual — (esp of tides) occurring twice monthly
- seminal fluid — the fluid component of semen, excluding the sperm.
- seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
- semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- semipalmation — the state of being semipalmate