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13-letter words containing s, e, a, m, y

  • olympic games — international sports event
  • party manners — polite behaviour
  • payment terms — the terms or conditions concerning the payment of something
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
  • polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
  • portal system — a vascular arrangement in which blood from the capillaries of one organ is transported to the capillaries of another organ by a connecting vein or veins.
  • postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
  • primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
  • prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
  • 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 )
  • quarrelsomely — In a quarrelsome manner.
  • raspberry jam — jam made using raspberries
  • remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
  • remonstratory — characterized by protest or expostulation
  • resystematize — to systematize again
  • royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
  • saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
  • saccharometry — the process of determining the quantity of sugar in a solution
  • saccharomyces — a fungus of the genus Saccharomyces, esp the yeast plant
  • sacramentally — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • safety helmet — protective hard hat
  • safety margin — something required to ensure safety
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
  • schematically — pertaining to or of the nature of a schema, diagram, or scheme; diagrammatic.
  • screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • seismic array — a system of linked seismographs arranged in a regular geometric pattern to increase sensitivity to earthquake detection
  • self-assembly — Self-assembly is used to refer to furniture and other goods that you buy in parts and that you have to put together yourself.
  • semi-autonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
  • semi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
  • sentimentally — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
  • sexagesimally — into sixtieths
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
  • single-family — designed or suitable for one family of average size: single-family homes.
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • somatosensory — of or relating to sensations that involve parts of the body not associated with the primary sense organs.
  • sparcsystem 4 — (computer)   A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
  • spenta mainyu — the good and creative spirit that is the offspring of Ahura Mazda.
  • spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
  • spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
  • stalagmometry — measurement of drops of liquid using a staktometer
  • static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
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