13-letter words containing r, e, t, i, m
- maternity pay — the pay a woman receives from her work during her absence immediately before and after childbirth
- matrilineally — In matrilineal fashion.
- matripotestal — of or relating to the authority exercised by a mother or a mother's blood relatives.
- matthew paris — Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
- me generation — the generation, originally in the 1970s, characterized by self-absorption; in the 1980s, characterized by material greed
- mean-spirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- measurability — capable of being measured.
- mediterranean — Mediterranean Sea.
- medium quarto — a size of book, about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 4to.
- meistersinger — Also, mastersinger. a member of one of the guilds, chiefly of workingmen, established during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in the principal cities of Germany, for the cultivation of poetry and music.
- melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
- melodramatist — A writer of melodramas.
- melodramatize — to make melodramatic.
- memorabiliast — a person who collects mementos or souvenirs, as postcards or playbills.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- mental strain — a state of worry and tension caused by a situation
- mephobarbital — The drug methylphenobarbital.
- mercerisation — A process of treating cotton with sodium hydroxide in order to make it more lustrous.
- mercerization — to treat (cotton yarns or fabric) with caustic alkali under tension, in order to increase strength, luster, and affinity for dye.
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
- meritocracies — Plural form of meritocracy.
- meritoriously — deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service.
- mesi protocol — (processor) Modified, Exclusive, Shared, Invalid. A cache coherency protocol where each cache line is marked with one of the four states. The MESI protocol is used by the Pentium processor.
- mesmerization — to hypnotize.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- messerschmitt — any of several types of fighter aircraft extensively used by the German air force in World War II, especially the ME-109.
- metacercariae — the encysted larva of a trematode, usually found in or on an aquatic intermediate host.
- metacercarial — relating to, involving, or caused by a metacercaria or metacercariae
- metachromasia — A characteristic change in the colour of staining carried out in biological tissues, exhibited by certain aniline dyes when they bind to particular substances present in these tissues, called chromotropes.
- metachromatic — change of color, especially that due to variation in the temperature of a body.
- metagrobolize — to mystify or puzzle
- metaheuristic — An experimental heuristic method for solving a general class of computational problems by combining user procedures in the hope of obtaining a more efficient or robust procedure.
- metalcrafting — metalworking.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- metallurgical — the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.
- metallurgists — Plural form of metallurgist.
- metamaterials — Plural form of metamaterial.
- metamerically — In a metameric manner.
- metamorphosis — Biology. a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the adult butterfly. Compare complete metamorphosis.
- metamorphotic — Of or relating to metamorphosis.
- metanarrative — A narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge; a grand story that is self-legitimizing.
- metanephridia — Plural form of metanephridium.
- metaphoricity — The power of a metaphor.
- meteorologist — the science dealing with the atmosphere and its phenomena, including weather and climate.
- metering pump — A metering pump is a device used to pump precise amounts of liquids over a period of time.
- meths drinker — a person who drinks methylated spirits
- metric martyr — a shopkeeper or trader willing to be prosecuted for continuing to use only imperial measures as a protest against the perceived imposition of metric measures by the European Union
- metric system — a decimal system of weights and measures, adopted first in France but now widespread, universally used in science, mandatory for use for all purposes in a large number of countries, and favored for use in most (as in the U.S.). The basic units are the meter (39.37 inches) for length and the gram (15.432 grains) for mass or weight. Derived units are the liter (0.908 U.S. dry quart, or 1.0567 U.S. liquid quart) for capacity, being the volume of 1000 grams of water under specified conditions; the are (119.6 square yards) for area, being the area of a square 10 meters on a side; and the stere (35.315 cubic feet) for volume, being the volume of a cube 1 meter on a side, the term “stere,” however, usually being used only in measuring firewood. Names for units larger and smaller than these are formed from the above names by the use of the following prefixes: kilo-, 1000; hecto-, 100; deka-, 10; deci-, 0.1; centi-, 0.01; milli-, 0.001. To these are often added: tera-, one trillion; giga-, one billion; mega-, one million. With the addition of basic physical units it is now officially known by the French name Le Système International d'Unités (abbreviation SI, ) or in English as the International System of Units.
- metrical mile — (in track and swimming) a race of 1500 meters, nearly equivalent to a mile.