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

  • septempartite — separated into seven sections.
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • short-termism — If you accuse people of short-termism, you mean that they make decisions that produce benefits now or soon, rather than making better decisions that will produce benefits in the future.
  • sidereal time — time measured by the diurnal motion of stars. A sidereal day is about four minutes shorter than a solar day, with hours, minutes, and seconds all proportionally shorter.
  • silver-y moth — a brownish noctuid moth, Plusia gamma, having a light Y-shaped marking on each forewing; it migrates in large flocks
  • single market — a market consisting of a number of nations, esp those of the European Union, in which goods, capital, and currencies can move freely across borders without tariffs or restrictions
  • single mother — a mother who brings up a child or children alone, without a partner.
  • skew symmetry — symmetry of top left with bottom right, and top right with bottom left
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • smear tactics — actions designed to slander another person or organization in order to damage their reputation
  • smooth-talker — a person who gets another person to do their bidding by using a slick, gently persuasive, practised, or competent manner
  • social market — an economic system in which industry and commerce are run by private enterprise within limits set by the government to ensure equality of opportunity and social and environmental responsibility
  • sociocentrism — oriented toward or focused on one's own social group.
  • sodium borate — borax1 .
  • somatosensory — of or relating to sensations that involve parts of the body not associated with the primary sense organs.
  • somersetshire — a county in SW England. 1335 sq. mi. (3455 sq. km).
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • spa treatment — a non-medical procedure to help the health of the body, such as a massage
  • space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
  • sparcsystem 4 — (computer)   A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
  • spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
  • spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • spermatophore — a capsule surrounding a mass of spermatozoa, produced by the male of various animal species and transferred to the female.
  • spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
  • spermatorrhea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
  • spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
  • spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • sprint medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards, the second and third members run 220 yards each, and the fourth member runs 880 yards.
  • square matrix — a matrix in which the number of rows is equal to the number of columns.
  • stage manager — a person responsible for the technical details of a theatrical production, assisting the director during rehearsal, supervising the lighting, costuming, setting, prompting, etc., and assuming full responsibility for the stage during a performance of a play.
  • stain remover — a substance designed for removing stains or dirty marks, as from clothes, carpets, etc
  • stalagmometer — an instrument for determining the number of drops, or the weight of each drop, in a given volume of liquid.
  • stalagmometry — measurement of drops of liquid using a staktometer
  • staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
  • standard time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
  • standover man — a person who extorts money by intimidation
  • starter motor — A starter motor is an electric motor for starting an engine.
  • state chamber — a room for public ceremonies and celebrations.
  • static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
  • stationmaster — a person in charge of a railroad station; station agent.
  • steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
  • steamer chair — deck chair.
  • steamer trunk — a rectangular traveling trunk low enough to slide under a bunk on a ship.
  • stem christie — a turn made by stemming one ski and then bringing the other parallel to it during the turn.
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