12-letter words containing r, e, m, a, i, g
- pre-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
- premarketing — before the development of a market
- premigration — occurring before migration
- primogenital — relating to primogeniture
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- quadragesima — the first Sunday in Lent.
- race meeting — A race meeting is an occasion when a series of horse races are held at the same place, often during a period of several days.
- race norming — the process of statistically adjusting the scores of minority job applicants on job-qualification tests by rating each test-taker's score against the results of others in his or her racial or ethnic group.
- racing homer — a kind of homing pigeon used for racing
- re-alignment — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
- reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
- reading room — a room set aside for reading, as in a library or club.
- reassignment — something assigned, as a particular task or duty: She completed the assignment and went on to other jobs.
- reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- reprimanding — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- rhyming game — a game played using rhyme
- ring machine — a Linotype used primarily for making corrections.
- risk manager — A risk manager is a person who works in risk management.
- risk-manager — the technique or profession of assessing, minimizing, and preventing accidental loss to a business, as through the use of insurance, safety measures, etc.
- running mate — a candidate for an office linked with another and more important office, as for the vice-presidency.
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- semi-organic — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- semiglobular — possessing the form of half a globe; hemispheric.
- seringapatam — a town in S Karnataka, in S India, former capital of Mysore state: taken by the British 1799.
- service game — a game in which a particular tennis player is the one who serves
- simple sugar — monosaccharide.
- single cream — dairy product: thin or light cream
- smoking area — a designated area in which smoking is permitted
- spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
- steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
- steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
- stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
- streamlining — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
- terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
- thermalgesia — pain caused by heat.
- tiger market — any of the four most important markets on the Pacific rim after Japan: Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan
- time sharing — to use or occupy by time-sharing.
- time-sharing — time-sharing (def 2).
- tragi-comedy — A tragi-comedy is a play or other written work that is both sad and amusing.
- transmigrate — to move or pass from one place to another.
- tree diagram — Mathematics, Linguistics. a diagram in which lines branch out from a central point or stem without forming any closed loops.
- undermanning — the condition of not having enough employees to function properly
- undermeaning — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- ungerminated — to begin to grow or develop.
- unglamorized — not glamorized
- unguentarium — a vessel for holding an unguent
- venn diagram — a diagram that uses circles to represent sets and their relationships.
- virgin metal — primary metal.