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13-letter words containing r, e, a, m

  • dome fastener — a fastening device consisting of one part with a projecting knob that snaps into a hole on another like part, used esp in closures in clothing
  • domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
  • dragging-beam — (in a hipped roof) a short beam holding the foot of a hip rafter to counteract its thrust.
  • dragon market — any of the emerging markets of the Pacific rim, esp Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines
  • drama student — a student who is training to become an actor
  • drama therapy — a type of psychotherapy encouraging patients to use dramatic techniques to deal with emotional and psychological problems.
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
  • dreamcatchers — Plural form of dreamcatcher.
  • dreamlessness — The state or condition of being dreamless; lack of dreams.
  • dromaeosaurid — A carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of a late Cretaceous family that included deinonychus and the velociraptors. They had a large slashing claw on each hind foot.
  • drum magazine — a receptacle that holds and feeds cartridges to a submachine gun or light machine gun.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • dumb terminal — (hardware)   A type of terminal that consists of a keyboard and a display screen that can be used to enter and transmit data to, or display data from, a computer to which it is connected. A dumb terminal, in contrast to an intelligent terminal, has no independent processing capability or auxiliary storage and thus cannot function as a stand-alone device. The dumbest kind of terminal is a glass tty. The next step up has a minimally addressable cursor but no on-screen editing or other features normally supported by an intelligent terminal. Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
  • dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
  • dysmenorrheal — painful menstruation.
  • dysmenorrhoea — painful menstruation.
  • early-morning — taking place or being presented in the early part of the morning
  • earned income — income from wages, salaries, fees, or the like, accruing from labor or services performed by the earner.
  • earnest money — money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract.
  • east germanic — a branch of the Germanic languages no longer extant, comprising Gothic and probably others of which there are no written records. Abbreviation: EGmc.
  • east timorese — of or relating to East Timor or its inhabitants
  • easter monday — the day after Easter, observed as a holiday in some places.
  • eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
  • edmund andros — Sir Edmund, 1637–1714, British governor in the American colonies, 1686–89, 1692–98.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • elasmobranchs — Plural form of elasmobranch.
  • electrodermal — Of or relating to measurement of the electrical conductivity of the skin, especially as an indicator of someone’s emotional responses.
  • electromagnet — A soft metal core made into a magnet by the passage of electric current through a coil surrounding it.
  • electron beam — a beam or stream of electrons emitted by a single source that move in the same direction and at the same speed
  • elgin marbles — a group of 5th-century bc Greek sculptures originally decorating the Parthenon in Athens, brought to England by Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), and now at the British Museum
  • embarrassable — Capable of being embarrassed.
  • embarrassedly — In an embarrassed manner.
  • embarrassment — A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
  • embracingness — the quality of something that embraces
  • embranchments — Plural form of embranchment.
  • embranglement — Embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled.
  • embryological — Of or pertaining to embryology.
  • embryonically — In an embryonic way.
  • emergency tax — the tax a person pays on their income when it is not yet clear what tax band they should be assigned to
  • emigrationist — a person who promotes emigration
  • empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
  • empty quarter — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
  • empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
  • empyreumatize — to infect or spoil with empyreuma
  • emtricitabine — A nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor for the treatment of HIV infection.
  • enantiodromia — (psychiatry, according to Carl Jung) The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.
  • enantiodromic — relating to enantiodromia
  • enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
  • enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
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