13-letter words containing m, y, c, e
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- racial memory — feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.
- recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
- recovery room — a room near the operating or delivery room of a hospital, equipped with specific apparatus and staffed by specially trained personnel for emergencies, used for the recovery from anesthesia of a postoperative or obstetrical patient before being brought to a hospital room or ward.
- recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
- reflectometry — the study or science of reflectometer usage and design
- refractometry — an instrument for determining the refractive index of a substance.
- reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
- retromingency — urinating backward because of bodily configuration: The lion is a retromingent animal.
- royal academy — a society founded in 1768 by George III of England for the establishment of a school of design and the holding of an annual exhibition of the works of living artists.
- saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
- saccharometry — the process of determining the quantity of sugar in a solution
- saccharomyces — a fungus of the genus Saccharomyces, esp the yeast plant
- sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
- schizomycetes — any of numerous microorganisms of the subkingdom (or phylum) Schizophyta, kingdom Monera, comprising the bacteria.
- school system — state education
- 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.
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- 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-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- semisynthetic — derived synthetically from one or more substances of natural origin.
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
- siege economy — an economy in which the export of capital is limited and import controls are imposed
- sigmoidectomy — surgical removal of the sigmoid colon
- sparcsystem 4 — (computer) A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
- specimen copy — a copy of a document regarded as typical of that type of document
- spectinomycin — an antibiotic drug, C 1 4 H 2 4 N 2 O 7 , produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces spectabilis, used in the treatment of susceptible gonorrhea.
- static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
- swamp cypress — bald cypress.
- symbolic code — a program code unrelated to the hardware of a particular computer and requiring conversion to the code used by the computer before the program can be used.
- symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
- sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- syndesmectomy — excision of part of a ligament.
- systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
- the archenemy — the devil
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thyroidectomy — excision of all or a part of the thyroid gland.
- tiger economy — an economy that maintains a high growth rate, originally referring to the relatively small economies of South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in East Asia.
- token economy — a method of encouraging desirable behavior, especially in a hospital setting, by offering rewards of token money that can be exchanged for special food, access to television, and other bonuses.
- tonsillectomy — the operation of excising or removing one or both tonsils.
- topochemistry — the study of reactions that only occur at specific regions in a system
- tummy muscles — the muscles of the stomach