13-letter words containing r, e, m, a
- gravity meter — gravimeter (def 2).
- gray eminence — a person who wields unofficial power, especially through another person and often surreptitiously or privately.
- grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
- great grimsby — seaport in Humberside, NE England, at the mouth of the Humber estuary: county district pop. 91,000
- green machine — A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth). Comes from the olive-drab "uniform" paint used for military equipment.
- gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
- grimes graves — an area of Neolithic flint mines in Suffolk, England, comprising more than 300 mine shafts and galleries.
- growth market — a rapidly expanding market
- gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
- gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
- hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
- haemarthrosis — Alternative form of hemarthrosis.
- haemodialyzer — a piece of equipment used in haemodialysis to screen the blood to remove unwanted substances
- haemorrhaging — Present participle of haemorrhage.
- half measures — inadequate measures or actions
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- hall of famer — a person who has been accepted into a Hall of Fame.
- halobacterium — Any of various extremophiles, of genus Halobacterium, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
- harbor master — an official who supervises operations in a harbor area and administers its rules.
- harbourmaster — (British, Canada, nautical) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
- harmonic mean — the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers.
- harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.
- harvest mouse — an Old World field mouse, Micromys minutus, that builds a spherical nest among the stems of grains and other plants.
- hatemongering — The behaviour of a hatemonger; the spreading of hatred.
- he's your man — he's the person needed (for a particular task, role, job, etc)
- headmistressy — typical of the duties and behaviour of a headmistress
- heart massage — rhythmic manual compression of the sternum or heart to restore normal heartbeat, as after cardiac arrest.
- heart monitor — a machine that registers the activity of the heart
- heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
- heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
- heart-warming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- hellgrammites — Plural form of hellgrammite (Alternative spelling of hellgramites).
- hemacytometer — hemocytometer.
- hematothermal — warm-blooded; homoiothermal.
- hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
- herbal remedy — a medical treatment made with herbs
- hereditaments — Plural form of hereditament.
- hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- hermaphrodite — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
- hermaphrodyte — (archaic) alternative spelling of hermaphrodite.
- hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
- hermosa beach — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- heterogametes — Plural form of heterogamete.
- heterogametic — (of a species or individual organism) having two unlike gametes.
- heterothermal — having a different or varying temperature
- hierogrammate — a writer of hierograms
- histaminergic — releasing histamine