13-letter words containing m, i, g, r, a, t
- parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- pivot grammar — a loose grammar said to govern two-word utterances by children
- plagiotropism — plagiotropic tendency or growth.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- practice game — any informal game (of sports, chess, etc) played as preparation for a real game
- pragmatically — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- profit margin — the percentage that profit constitutes of total sales.
- profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- radiotelegram — a message transmitted by radiotelegraphy.
- regimentation — the act of regimenting or the state of being regimented.
- regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
- register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
- rhythm guitar — a guitar used to provide rhythm, particularly during a musical ensemble
- riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
- romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety
- 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.
- semiwater gas — a mixed gas formed by passing steam and air over a carbon source
- 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).
- spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- standing army — a permanently organized military force maintained by a nation.
- standing room — space in which to stand, as in a theater, stadium, or the like.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- storm warning — a showing of storm signals.
- straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
- tangata māori — someone of Māori origin
- telegrammatic — a message or communication sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
- telemarketing — selling or advertising by telephone.
- thaumaturgist — a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
- the hermitage — an art museum in St Petersburg, originally a palace built by Catherine the Great
- thermostating — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
- timothy grass — a coarse grass, Phleum pratense, having cylindrical spikes, used as fodder.
- trading stamp — a stamp with a certain value given as a premium by a retailer to a customer, specified quantities of these stamps being exchangeable for various articles.
- training camp — A training camp for soldiers or sports players is an organized period of training at a particular place.
- tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
- transmisogyny — discrimination or prejudice against transgender women.
- trash farming — cultivation by leaving stubble, etc, on the surface of the soil to serve as a mulch
- troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
- ungrammatical — grammatically incorrect or awkward; not conforming to the rules or principles of grammar or accepted usage: an ungrammatical sentence.
- unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
- vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
- virtual image — an optical image formed by the apparent divergence of rays from a point, rather than their actual divergence from a point