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13-letter words containing r, e, s, t, m

  • praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
  • pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • premonishment — a forewarning
  • presettlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
  • presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
  • pretermission — to let pass without notice; disregard.
  • primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
  • primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
  • primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
  • prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
  • prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
  • privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
  • problem state — IBM jargon for user mode, the opposite of "supervisor state". On IBM System 360, 370 and 390 mainframes privileged instructions may only be executed in "supervisor state". Application programs request the operating system to perform these operations by using the Supervisor Call (SVC) instruction.
  • prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
  • protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
  • protest march — public demonstration
  • protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
  • psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
  • quartermaster — Military. an officer charged with providing quarters, clothing, fuel, transportation, etc., for a body of troops.
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
  • re-assessment — the act of assessing; appraisal; evaluation.
  • re-enlistment — the act or state of being re-enlisted into the armed forces
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
  • recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
  • recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
  • reconsignment — a consigning again.
  • redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • register mark — any of several marks incorporated onto printing plates to assist in the accurate positioning of images during printing
  • reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • reinstatement — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
  • released time — time or a period allotted to a teacher apart from normal duties for a special activity, as personal research.
  • remeasurement — the process of measuring again
  • reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
  • remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
  • remonstration — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • remonstratory — characterized by protest or expostulation
  • remote access — Remote access is a system which allows you to gain access to a particular computer or network using a separate computer.
  • remote sensor — any instrument, such as a radar device or camera, that scans the earth or another planet from space in order to collect data about some aspect of it
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