10-letter words containing r, i, e, m
- separatism — a person who separates, withdraws, or secedes, as from an established church.
- seriocomic — partly serious and partly comic: a seriocomic play.
- serve time — be in prison
- serviceman — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- servicemen — a member of the armed forces of a country.
- sestertium — a money of account of ancient Rome, equal to 1000 sesterces.
- shimmering — a quivering or vibrating motion or image as produced by reflecting faint light or heat waves.
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- shirtmaker — a person who makes shirts.
- short time — a period or schedule during which the number of working hours is reduced: The recession has put most of the manufacturing plants on short time.
- shrimp net — a net for catching shrimps
- shrimplike — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- sidestream — (of cigarette smoke) inhaled by passive smokers
- simferopol — a city in S Ukraine, on the S Crimean Peninsula.
- simmer dim — the night-long twilight found in the Northern Isles around midsummer
- simon pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simon-pure — real; genuine: a simon-pure accent.
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- sir edmund — Clara, 1821–1912, U.S. philanthropist who organized the American Red Cross in 1881.
- skimmerton — shivaree (def 1).
- slammerkin — a woman's loose dress
- slipstream — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slumbering — to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
- smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds.
- smaragdite — a green, foliated member of the amphibole group.
- smartdrive — (storage, product) A Microsoft MS DOS disk cache program to speed up disk access. For most users, a 1MB cache is sufficient. Devoting more memory to the cache offers diminishing returns, since the additional cache hits become fewer (and the extra memory could be better used to reduce swapping). Typing SMARTDRV /S at a DOS prompt shows the cache size, a hit-and-miss report, and information about which drives are being cached. The hit-and-miss statistics are crucial for gauging the effectiveness of SmartDrive settings. A score in the high 80s shows that SmartDrive is well configured. Run SMARTDRV /S several times during a Windows session and note the-hit-and-miss figures each time. If your percentage usually falls below 80 percent, you should consider increasing the cache size. You can edit the SMARTDRV line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to increase both the InitCacheSize and the WinCacheSize parameters. SmartDrive Monitor is an undocumented Windows program that comes with DOS 6.0 for logging and controling the cache.
- smattering — slight or superficial knowledge; smattering.
- smithereen — to break into small fragments
- smoke ring — a visible ring formed by the sudden release of smoke, usually created by blowing smoke from the mouth or by a cigarette, incense stick etc
- smoldering — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- smothering — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- sociometry — the measurement of attitudes of social acceptance or rejection through expressed preferences among members of a social grouping.
- solemnizer — to perform the ceremony of (marriage).
- sombrerite — a lime and alumina phosphoric compound
- somerville — Mary Fairfax Greig [greg] /grɛg/ (Show IPA), 1780–1872, Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
- spare time — leisure hours
- spermaceti — a pearly white, waxy, translucent solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale: used chiefly in cosmetics and candles, and as an emollient.
- spermarium — the sperm gland
- spermatial — relating to the male reproductive cells of certain red algae and fungi
- spermatium — Botany. the nonmotile male gamete of a red alga.
- spermatoid — resembling sperm.
- spermicide — a sperm-killing agent, especially a commercial birth-control preparation, usually a cream or jelly.
- spermidine — a biogenic polyamine, H 2 N(CH 2) 4 NH(CH 2) 3 NH 2 , formed from putrescine, occurring widely in nature and first identified in semen.
- spirometer — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- spirometry — an instrument for determining the capacity of the lungs.
- spoonerism — the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident, as in a blushing crow for a crushing blow.
- springtime — the season of spring.
- stadimeter — an instrument for determining the distance between an observer and an object of known height by measurement of the angle subtended by the object.
- steam iron — an electric iron with a water chamber, which emits steam onto the fabric or garment being ironed.
- steiermark — German name of Styria.