13-letter words containing m, e, s, r
- preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
- premonishment — a forewarning
- presettlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- presubmission — an act or instance of submitting.
- presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- pretermission — to let pass without notice; disregard.
- primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- problem state — IBM jargon for user mode, the opposite of "supervisor state". On IBM System 360, 370 and 390 mainframes privileged instructions may only be executed in "supervisor state". Application programs request the operating system to perform these operations by using the Supervisor Call (SVC) instruction.
- problem-solve — find solutions
- progressivism — the principles and practices of progressives.
- prolegomenous — prefatory; preliminary; introductory.
- promised land — Heaven.
- prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
- protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- protest march — public demonstration
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
- quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
- quartermaster — Military. an officer charged with providing quarters, clothing, fuel, transportation, etc., for a body of troops.
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- 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.
- raspberry jam — jam made using raspberries
- raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
- 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.
- réaumur scale — René Antoine Ferchault de [ruh-ney ahn-twan fer-shoh duh] /rəˈneɪ ɑ̃ˈtwan fɛrˈʃoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.
- recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
- recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
- recompression — the act or process of compressing something again
- reconsignment — a consigning again.
- red sea bream — either of two fish of the family Sparidae, Pagrus major and Pagellus bogaraveo. Pagrus major is a popular food fish in Japan, Taiwan and Spain
- redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned