13-letter words containing m, i, s, r, e, c
- schwärmerisch — excessively or extremely enthusiastic
- sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect
- scleromalacia — a thinning of the sclera (the eyeball's outer covering) which can occur as a result of rheumatoid arthritis
- 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.
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
- security firm — a firm which provides guards for buildings, and other security services and personnel
- seismic array — a system of linked seismographs arranged in a regular geometric pattern to increase sensitivity to earthquake detection
- semi-abstract — pertaining to or designating a style of painting or sculpture in which the subject remains recognizable although the forms are highly stylized in a manner derived from abstract art.
- semi-circular — Something that is semi-circular has the shape of half a circle.
- semi-precious — Semi-precious stones are stones such as turquoises and amethysts that are used in jewellery but are less valuable than precious stones such as diamonds and rubies.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semicarbazide — an organic nitrogen compound derived from urea
- 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.
- semiempirical — partly empirical
- semiparasitic — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- sensitometric — of or relating to sensitometry
- sex chromatin — Barr body.
- shaving cream — a preparation, as of soap and free fatty acid, that is lathered and applied to the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving.
- simware, inc. — (company) The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
- small calorie — Thermodynamics. calorie (def 1a).
- smear tactics — actions designed to slander another person or organization in order to damage their reputation
- 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
- sociocentrism — oriented toward or focused on one's own social group.
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
- steamer chair — deck chair.
- stem christie — a turn made by stemming one ski and then bringing the other parallel to it during the turn.
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
- superromantic — exceptionally romantic
- symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- theatricalism — conduct suggesting theatrical actions or mannerisms, especially of an extravagant or exhibitionist sort.
- thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thermospheric — pertaining to the thermosphere
- thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
- topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
- transcriptome — a collection of all the messenger RNA in a particular cell
- transmittance — Physics. the ratio of the radiant flux transmitted through and emerging from a body to the total flux incident on it: equivalent to one minus the absorptance.
- unceremonious — discourteously abrupt; hasty; rude: He made an unceremonious departure in the middle of my speech.
- uncircumcised — not circumcised.
- uncircumspect — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.