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13-letter words containing a, c, h, r, o, m

  • normal school — (formerly) a school offering a two-year course and certification to high-school graduates preparing to be teachers, especially elementary-school teachers.
  • norman french — Also called Norman. the French dialect of the Normans or of Normandy.
  • normocephalic — Having a normal sized head; neither macrocephalic nor microcephalic; mesocephalic.
  • north america — the northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Central America to the Arctic Ocean. Highest point, Mt. McKinley, 20,300 feet (6187 meters); lowest, Death Valley, 276 feet (84 meters) below sea level. About 9,360,000 sq. mi. (24,242,400 sq. km).
  • orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
  • orchidomaniac — a person who is obsessed with or has a passion for orchids
  • ornithomantic — relating to ornithomancy
  • panharmonicon — a mechanical instrument that imitates orchestral sounds
  • petrochemical — a chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
  • pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
  • pharmacologic — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharmacopoeia — a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
  • pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
  • physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
  • protest march — public demonstration
  • radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
  • rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
  • reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • rogue's march — a derisive tune played to accompany a person's expulsion from a regiment, community, etc.
  • saccharometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of sugar in a solution, as by determining the specific gravity of the solution.
  • saccharometry — the process of determining the quantity of sugar in a solution
  • saccharomyces — a fungus of the genus Saccharomyces, esp the yeast plant
  • sacher-masoch — Leopold von [ley-oh-pohlt fuh n] /ˈleɪ oʊˌpoʊlt fən/ (Show IPA), 1836–95, Austrian novelist.
  • schoolmarmish — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • tautochronism — the fact or quality of being a tautochrone
  • the decameron — title of collection of stories written in Italian in the early Renaissance by Boccaccio
  • the-decameron — a collection of 100 tales (1353) by Boccaccio.
  • thermal shock — a fluctuation in temperature causing stress in a material. It often results in fracture, esp in brittle materials such as ceramics
  • thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thermoelastic — pertaining to the thermodynamic effects produced by deformation of an elastic substance.
  • thermonuclear — relating to nuclear fusion
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermostatics — the branch of science concerned with thermal equilibrium
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  • thiocarbamide — thiourea.
  • thomas decker — Thomas, 1572?–1632? English dramatist.
  • thoracolumbar — of the thoracic and lumbar regions
  • thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
  • trench mortar — a portable, muzzle-loaded mortar, usually having a smooth bore, fired at high angles of elevation to reach concealed enemy targets.
  • trichromatism — the quality or condition of being trichromatic.
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