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

  • tall meadow rue — a meadow rue, Thalictrum polygamum.
  • tamarisk gerbil — gerbil (def 2).
  • tarsometatarsal — the large bone in the lower leg of a bird with which the toe bones articulate, formed by the fusion of tarsal and metatarsal bones.
  • tarsometatarsus — the large bone in the lower leg of a bird with which the toe bones articulate, formed by the fusion of tarsal and metatarsal bones.
  • teamsters union — the unofficial name of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.
  • temerariousness — the state or condition of being audacious
  • temperamentally — having or exhibiting a strongly marked, individual temperament.
  • teratocarcinoma — a monstrous malignant tumour typically found in the testes
  • terminal market — an organized market in a city into which large quantities of agricultural produce, livestock, etc., are shipped for distribution and sale.
  • terminator seed — a seed that produces sterile plants, used in some genetically modified crops so that a new supply of seeds has to be bought every year
  • tetramethyllead — a colorless liquid, (CH 3) 4 Pb, insoluble in water, slightly soluble in alcohol and benzene, used as an antiknock agent in gasoline.
  • tetrasporangium — a sporangium containing four asexual spores.
  • the affirmative — the side in a debate that supports the proposition
  • the amen corner — the part of a church, usually to one side of the pulpit, occupied by people who lead the responsive amens during the service
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the grim reaper — death
  • the motor trade — the business of selling and buying cars and other road vehicles
  • the other woman — married man's female lover
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • the reformation — the 16th-cent. religious movement that aimed at reforming the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in establishing the Protestant churches
  • the santa maria — the flagship of Columbus on his first voyage to America (1492)
  • the small hours — If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  • the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
  • the square mile — the area in central London in which the United Kingdom's major financial business is transacted
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the-ambassadors — a novel (1903) by Henry James.
  • theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
  • theatrical film — a film made for exhibition in theaters, as distinguished from one made for television.
  • theory of games — game theory.
  • thermal barrier — the high temperatures produced by the friction between a supersonic object and the earth's atmosphere that limit the speed of an airplane or rocket.
  • thermal blanket — a specially warm blanket
  • thermal equator — an imaginary line round the earth running through the point on each meridian with the highest average temperature. It lies mainly to the north because of the larger landmasses and therefore greater summer heating
  • thermal imaging — Thermal imaging is the use of special equipment that can detect the heat produced by people or things and use it to produce images of them.
  • thermal neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermal printer — a printer that produces output by selectively heating a heat-sensitive paper (thermal paper) in patterns corresponding to the characters to be produced.
  • thermal reactor — a nuclear reactor in which most of the fission is caused by thermal neutrons
  • thermanesthesia — loss of ability to feel cold or heat; loss of the sense or feeling of temperature.
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • thermobarometer — Also called hypsometer. an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, and sometimes altitude, from its effect upon the boiling point of a liquid.
  • thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
  • thermoremanence — the state or quality of being thermoremanent
  • third amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing that the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes would be prohibited in peacetime and allowed only by prescribed law during wartime.
  • tidal benchmark — a benchmark used as a reference for tidal observations.
  • timber merchant — a merchant that deals in wood for use as a building material
  • time after time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • time immemorial — Also called time out of mind. time in the distant past beyond memory or record: Those carvings have been there from time immemorial.
  • tirso de molina — Luis [loo-ees] /luˈis/ (Show IPA), 1535–1600, Spanish Jesuit theologian.
  • to bear in mind — If you tell someone to bear something in mind or to keep something in mind, you are reminding or warning them about something important which they should remember.
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