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

  • antirheumatic — acting against rheumatism
  • antisubmarine — (of weapons, missiles, etc) designed to combat or destroy submarines
  • antisymmetric — (of a relation) never holding between a pair of arguments x and y when it holds between y and x except when x = y, as "…is no younger than…"
  • antiterrorism — opposed to or acting against terrorism; counterterrorist
  • apogeotropism — negative geotropism, as shown by plant stems
  • apoplectiform — of or resembling apoplexy or stroke.
  • apparent time — Astronomy. local time measured by the hour angle of the sun.
  • apportionment — the act of apportioning
  • approximately — close to; around; roughly or in the region of
  • approximative — (of a method, description, etc.) giving only an approximation to something.
  • arab-american — a citizen or resident of the U.S. of Arab birth or descent.
  • arabian camel — a domesticated camel, Camelus dromedarius, having one hump on its back and used as a beast of burden in the hot deserts of N Africa and SW Asia
  • araeometrical — relating to araeometry
  • archaeometric — relating to archaeometry
  • archaic smile — a conventional representation of the mouth characterized by slightly upturned corners of the lips, found especially on Greek sculpture produced prior to the 5th century b.c.
  • archimandrite — the head of a monastery or a group of monasteries
  • argumentation — Argumentation is the process of arguing in an organized or logical way, for example in philosophy.
  • argumentative — Someone who is argumentative is always ready to disagree or start quarrelling with other people.
  • arithmetician — a person skilled in arithmetic
  • arm wrestling — a contest in which two people sit facing each other each with one elbow resting on a table, clasp hands, and each tries to force the other's arm flat onto the table while keeping his own elbow touching the table
  • armamentarium — the items that comprise the material and equipment used by a physician in his professional practice
  • armistice day — the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I, on Nov 11, 1918, now kept on Remembrance Sunday
  • armstand dive — a dive starting from a handstand at the end of a springboard or a platform with the diver's back to the water.
  • ascertainment — to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine: to ascertain the facts.
  • atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • atomic energy — nuclear energy
  • atomic number — the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of an element
  • atomic theory — any theory in which matter is regarded as consisting of atoms, esp that proposed by John Dalton postulating that elements are composed of atoms that can combine in definite proportions to form compounds
  • audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
  • autoeroticism — the arousal and use of one's own body as a sexual object, as through masturbation
  • azurmalachite — a blue-green ornamental stone consisting of a mixture of azurite and malachite.
  • baby primrose — a tender primrose, Primula forbesii, native to China and Burma, having white, hairy leaves and rose- or lilac-colored flowers with a yellow center.
  • balmer series — a series of lines in the hydrogen spectrum, discovered by Johann Jakob Balmer (1825–98) in 1885
  • balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
  • bank examiner — a public official appointed under U.S. state or federal laws to inspect and audit the operations and accounts of banks in the examiner's jurisdiction.
  • barium yellow — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • barrier cream — a cream used to protect the skin, esp the hands, from dirt and from the action of oils or solvents
  • bartholomew i — (Dimitrios Archontonis) born 1940, Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church since 1991.
  • battering ram — A battering ram is a long heavy piece of wood that is used to knock down the locked doors of buildings.
  • battering-ram — an ancient military device with a heavy horizontal ram for battering down walls, gates, etc.
  • beam splitter — a system that divides a beam of light, electrons, etc, into two or more paths
  • bedroom suite — a set of furniture, including such things as a bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers, cabinet, etc
  • bedtime drink — a drink before bed, often made with milk
  • bedtime story — a story read or told to a child at bedtime
  • bergamot mint — an aromatic herb, Mentha piperita citrata, having a lemonlike odor when crushed.
  • berkeleianism — the philosophical system of George Berkeley, holding that objects exist only when perceived, that God's perception sustains the universe, and that there is no independent substratum or substance in which these perceptions inhere
  • bermuda onion — a large white or yellow onion with a mild flavor, grown in Texas, California, etc.
  • bible-thumper — an enthusiastic or aggressive exponent of the Bible
  • bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
  • bimolecularly — in a bimolecular fashion
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