13-letter words containing r, m, e, t
- 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 bank — a private banking firm engaged chiefly in investing in new issues of securities and in accepting bills of exchange in foreign trade.
- merchant fees — Merchant fees are money charged by a merchant service to a vendor for processing credit card transactions.
- merchant flag — the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.
- merchant navy — commercial ships
- 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.
- merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
- merrythoughts — Plural form of merrythought.
- 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.
- metallography — the study of the structure of metals and alloys by means of microscopy.
- 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.
- metamorphosed — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metamorphoses — a series of mythological tales or legends in verse (a.d. 7–8) by Ovid.
- 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.
- meteor crater — a bowl-shaped depression in the ground formed by the impact of a meteorite
- meteor shower — the profusion of meteors observed when the earth passes through a meteor swarm.
- 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.
- methocarbamol — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO 5 , used as a muscle relaxant in combination with other drugs in the treatment of acute, painful musculoskeletal conditions.
- methoxy group — the univalent group CH 3 O−.
- meths drinker — a person who drinks methylated spirits
- methylmercury — any of several extremely toxic organometallic compounds, Hg(CH 3) 2 , formed from metallic mercury by the action of microorganisms and capable of entering the food chain: used as seed disinfectants.
- methylparaben — a fine, white, needlelike substance, C 8 H 8 O 3 , used chiefly as a preservative in foods and pharmaceuticals.
- methylpropane — (organic compound) isobutane.
- methylpropene — (organic compound) IUPAC name for isobutylene.
- 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.