13-letter words containing s, e, a, m, n
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
- praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
- preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- promised land — Heaven.
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- quantum state — the condition in which a physical system exists, usually described by a wave function or a set of quantum numbers.
- queen's metal — any of several alloys containing antimony and tin and resembling britannia metal
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- quindicessima — (music) Two octaves higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up two octaves. Abbreviation: 15ma.
- quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
- random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
- random-access — direct-access.
- re-assessment — the act of assessing; appraisal; evaluation.
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
- reinstatement — to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state: to reinstate the ousted chairman.
- remeasurement — the process of measuring again
- remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
- remonstration — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remonstratory — characterized by protest or expostulation
- representamen — (in semiotics) a sign or signifier, whether physical or otherwise, which points to an object
- republicanism — republican government.
- restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
- resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- retransmitted — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
- roman letters — a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
- royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
- sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- safety margin — something required to ensure safety
- saint matthew — a tax collector of Capernaum called by Christ to be one of the 12 apostles (Matthew 9:9–13; 10:3). Feast day: Sept 21 or Nov 16
- saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
- saint michael — one of the archangels. Feast day: Sept 29 or Nov 8