13-letter words containing r, i, e, m, a
- blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
- board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
- boomerang kid — a young adult who, after having lived on his or her own for a time, returns to live in the parental home, usually due to financial problems caused by unemployment or the high cost of living independently
- borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
- brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
- brahminy kite — a common kite, Haliastur indus, of southern Asia and the southwest Pacific islands, having reddish-brown plumage with a white head and breast.
- brain-damaged — Someone who is brain-damaged has suffered brain damage.
- brazing metal — a nonferrous metal, as copper, zinc, or nickel, or an alloy, as hard solder, used for brazing together pieces of metal.
- breast timber — wale1 (def 5).
- breast-timber — a streak, stripe, or ridge produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip; welt.
- broad-brimmed — (of a hat) having a broad brim
- bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
- bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
- bus mastering — bus master
- cabinet maker — A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
- cabinet-maker — a person who makes fine furniture and other woodwork.
- cabinetmakers — Plural form of cabinetmaker.
- cadmium green — a pigment used in painting, consisting of a mixture of hydrated oxide of chromium with cadmium sulfide, and characterized by its strong green color and slow drying rate.
- caesaropapism — the theory that the state should have authority over the church in ecclesiastical matters; Erastianism
- camel cricket — cave cricket.
- camera lucida — an instrument attached to a microscope, etc to enable an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface to facilitate the sketching of the image
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- candid camera — a small camera that may be used to take informal photographs of people, usually without their knowledge
- cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
- capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
- carbamazepine — an anticonvulsant drug used in the management of epilepsy
- cardiomegalia — abnormal enlargement of the heart.
- cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
- categorematic — (of a word) able to stand alone as a term or subject
- cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
- cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
- ceramic oxide — a compound of oxygen with nonorganic material: recently discovered to act as a high-temperature superconductor
- ceremonialism — A fondness for ceremony, especially in religion; ritualism.
- ceremonialist — of, relating to, or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual: a ceremonial occasion.
- cerium metals — the metals lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, and samarium, forming a sub-group of the lanthanides
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- chain measure — measurement of distance using a chain 66 feet (20 meters) long, of which one link equals 7.9 inches (20.1 cm).
- chamber music — Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments.
- chase mortise — a mortise having one inclined narrow side.
- cheiromantist — A chiromancer.
- chemosurgical — of or relating to chemosurgery
- chimneybreast — the wall or walls that surround the base of a chimney or fireplace
- cholesteremia — cholesterolemia.
- chrematistics — Study of wealth.
- chrestomathic — (of teaching or learning) That has a practical use.
- christmas eve — Christmas Eve is the 24th of December, the day before Christmas Day.
- christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
- christmastime — the Christmas season, traditionally from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day or to Epiphany (Jan. 6)
- chromaticness — the attribute of colour that involves both hue and saturation
- chromatophile — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.