13-letter words containing a, d, e, n, s
- misadventured — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadventurer — a person who experiences misadventure or misfortune
- misadventures — Plural form of misadventure.
- misadvertence — inadvertence
- misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
- miscoordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- misdemeanants — Plural form of misdemeanant.
- misdemeanours — Plural form of misdemeanour.
- mistranslated — Simple past tense and past participle of mistranslate.
- misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
- moderationist — a person who favors, supports, or promotes moderation.
- modern greats — (at Oxford University) the Honour School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
- modernisation — Alternative spelling of modernization.
- modesty panel — a panel across the front of a desk, especially an office desk, designed to conceal the legs of a person seated at it.
- mohammedanism — Muhammadanism; Islam.
- moll flanders — (The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders) a novel (1722) by Daniel Defoe.
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- monosaturated — (organic chemistry, of a glyceride) Having one saturated fatty acid.
- more hands on — characterized by or involved in active personal participation in an activity; individual and direct: a workshop to give children hands-on experience with computers.
- morris dancer — A morris dancer is a person who takes part in morris dancing.
- mountainsides — Plural form of mountainside.
- multistranded — having several strands
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- nearsightedly — In a nearsighted manner; as if nearsighted; myopically.
- neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
- neuraminidase — An enzyme, present in many pathogenic or symbiotic microorganisms, that catalyzes the breakdown of glycosides containing neuraminic acid.
- never say die — to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.
- new amsterdam — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
- new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
- niçoise salad — salade niçoise
- niedersachsen — German name of Lower Saxony.
- niggardliness — The state of being niggardly.
- nits-and-lice — a yellow-flowered plant, Hypericum drummondii, of the central U.S.
- no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
- non-dangerous — full of danger or risk; causing danger; perilous; risky; hazardous; unsafe.
- non-designate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- non-sedentary — accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.
- nonadolescent — Not adolescent.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nonassociated — (of natural gas) not associated with a deposit of crude oil
- nonclassified — arranged or distributed in classes or according to class: We plan to review all the classified specimens in the laboratory.
- nondecreasing — not decreasing.
- nondisposable — Not disposable.
- nonrandomness — the quality or condition of not being random
- nonsegregated — Not segregated.
- northeastward — the northeast.
- northwestward — the northwest.
- novated lease — Australian system of employer-aided car purchase
- nubian desert — an arid region in the NE Sudan.
- nucleic acids — any of a group of long, linear macromolecules, either DNA or various types of RNA, that carry genetic information directing all cellular functions: composed of linked nucleotides.