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11-letter words that end in me

  • proper time — appropriate moment
  • proper-name — Grammar. a noun that is used to denote a particular person, place, or thing, as Lincoln, Sarah, Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Hall.
  • pseudoprime — A backgammon prime (six consecutive occupied points) with one point missing. This term is an esoteric pun derived from a mathematical method that, rather than determining precisely whether a number is prime (has no divisors), uses a statistical technique to decide whether the number is "probably" prime. A number that passes this test is called a pseudoprime. The hacker backgammon usage stems from the idea that a pseudoprime is almost as good as a prime: it does the job of a prime until proven otherwise, and that probably won't happen.
  • puy de dôme — a mountain in central France. 4805 feet (1465 meters).
  • puy-de-dome — a mountain in central France. 4805 feet (1465 meters).
  • quarrelsome — inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
  • quinquereme — (history, nautical) An ancient Carthaginian or Greek galley having five banks of oars.
  • real income — the amount of goods and services that money income will buy.
  • record time — very quickly, or in the fastest time recorded
  • remand home — a detention home for juvenile offenders aged 8–16 years.
  • rigid frame — (in iron, steel, and reinforced-concrete construction) a bent having absolutely rigid connections at the knees.
  • rollerdrome — a venue for roller-skating to music
  • rollicksome — rollicking; frolicsome.
  • rubber game — any game played to break a tie resulting when each side has won the same number of games
  • sarcenchyme — the connective tissue of some sponges
  • saucer dome — a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.
  • schistosome — Also called bilharzia. any elongated trematode of the genus Schistosoma, parasitic in the blood vessels of humans and other mammals; a blood fluke.
  • school time — the period of the day or year when children are at school
  • screen name — a unique sequence of characters that a person chooses to use for identification purposes when interacting with others online, as in computer games, instant messaging, or forums.
  • second home — an additional residence, as at the shore or in the country, where one goes on weekends, vacations, and the like.
  • second name — law: family name
  • shuddersome — tending to shudder
  • sight rhyme — agreement in spelling, but not in sound, of the ends of words or of lines of verse, as in have, grave.
  • simple time — a metre in music in which each beat or part divides equally into two
  • slaked lime — another name for calcium hydroxide, esp when made by adding water to calcium oxide
  • slant rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • slumbersome — tired; sleepy
  • stenochrome — a printed design made using stenochromy
  • still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
  • street name — a broker who holds securities registered in his or her name instead of in the name of the customer, especially for convenience in executing transfers and in pledging for borrowing in margin accounts.
  • strike home — to deliver an effective blow
  • summer time — Chiefly British. daylight-saving time.
  • synaptosome — a saclike structure at an isolated nerve ending
  • teapot dome — a federal oil reserve in Wyoming, leased to private producer Harry F. Sinclair by Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in 1922, leading to a major government scandal and the tarnishing of the reputation of President Warren G. Harding's administration (1921–23).
  • the sublime — sublime quality; sublimity
  • to hit home — If a situation or what someone says hits home or strikes home, people accept that it is real or true, even though it may be painful for them to realize.
  • travel time — time spent traveling for a job, as from home to work or in the course of business.
  • triple time — musical time with three beats in each bar
  • trivia game — a trivia game or competition is one where the competitors are asked questions about interesting but unimportant facts in many subjects
  • troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
  • trypanosome — any minute, flagellate protozoan of the genus Trypanosoma, parasitic in the blood or tissues of humans and other vertebrates, usually transmitted by insects, often causing serious diseases, as African sleeping sickness in humans, and many diseases in domestic animals.
  • tumble home — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
  • unlightsome — without light; dark
  • unwholesome — not wholesome; unhealthful; deleterious to health or physical or moral well-being: unwholesome food; unwholesome activities.
  • venturesome — having or showing a disposition to undertake risky or dangerous activities; daring: a venturesome investor; a venturesome explorer.
  • vowel rhyme — Prosody. assonance (def 2).
  • vowel-rhyme — resemblance of sounds.
  • wheedlesome — tending to wheedle
  • wranglesome — Inclined to wrangle or squabble; quarrelsome.
  • youth crime — crime committed by juvenile offenders
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