13-letter words containing m, e, t, r, a, l
- samuel slater — Samuel, 1768–1835, U.S. industrialist, born in England.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semimenstrual — (esp of tides) occurring twice monthly
- sidereal time — time measured by the diurnal motion of stars. A sidereal day is about four minutes shorter than a solar day, with hours, minutes, and seconds all proportionally shorter.
- single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
- social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
- spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
- splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- stalagmometer — an instrument for determining the number of drops, or the weight of each drop, in a given volume of liquid.
- stalagmometry — measurement of drops of liquid using a staktometer
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stone bramble — a herbaceous Eurasian rosaceous plant, Rubus saxatilis, of stony places, having white flowers and berry-like scarlet fruits (drupelets)
- 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.
- superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
- supermilitant — highly militant
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- supratemporal — situated above the upper part of the temporal bone or region.
- symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.