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13-letter words containing o, a, r, s, m

  • prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
  • 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.
  • program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
  • proposal form — a form filled out by a person applying for insurance
  • prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
  • protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
  • protest march — public demonstration
  • protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
  • provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
  • quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • radio compass — a radio receiver with a directional antenna for determining the bearing of the receiver from a radio transmitter.
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
  • 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.
  • ray tomlinson — (person)   An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
  • reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
  • redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • 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.
  • remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
  • remonstration — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • remonstratory — characterized by protest or expostulation
  • remote access — Remote access is a system which allows you to gain access to a particular computer or network using a separate computer.
  • restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
  • ribosomal rna — a type of RNA, distinguished by its length and abundance, functioning in protein synthesis as a component of ribosomes. Abbreviation: rRNA.
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • roman letters — a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
  • romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
  • rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
  • rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
  • royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
  • saccharometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of sugar in a solution, as by determining the specific gravity of the solution.
  • saccharometry — the process of determining the quantity of sugar in a solution
  • saccharomyces — a fungus of the genus Saccharomyces, esp the yeast plant
  • sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
  • sacher-masoch — Leopold von [ley-oh-pohlt fuh n] /ˈleɪ oʊˌpoʊlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1836–95, Austrian novelist.
  • sacred bamboo — nandina.
  • salmon ladder — a series of steps in a river designed to enable salmon to bypass a dam and move upstream to their breeding grounds
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
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