13-letter words containing c, a, m, r, n
- octane number — (of gasoline) a designation of antiknock quality, numerically equal to the percentage of isooctane by volume in a mixture of isooctane and normal heptane that matches the given gasoline in antiknock characteristics.
- omnicorporeal — Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance.
- opera company — a company that puts on productions of operas
- orchidomaniac — a person who is obsessed with or has a passion for orchids
- ornithomantic — relating to ornithomancy
- overdominance — excessive dominance
- pancreatotomy — incision of the pancreas.
- panharmonicon — a mechanical instrument that imitates orchestral sounds
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- 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
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
- plasma screen — A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- pre-placement — the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position.
- preattachment — an act of attaching or the state of being attached.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- protoactinium — protactinium.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
- radioactinium — the radioactive isotope of thorium having a mass number 227 and a half-life of 18.8 days. Symbol: RdAc, Th 227.
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
- ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
- ramon y cajal — Santiago [sahn-tyah-gaw] /sɑnˈtyɑ gɔ/ (Show IPA), 1852–1934, Spanish histologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1906.
- 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-access — direct-access.
- rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
- re-admittance — permission or right to enter: admittance into the exhibit room.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- reaction time — the interval between stimulation and response.
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- recombination — any of several processes by which genetic material of different origins becomes combined. It most commonly occurs between two sets of parental chromosomes during production of germ cells
- recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
- recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- recontaminate — to contaminate (an area, person, hands, etc) again
- recriminalize — to make punishable as a crime: To reduce the graffiti on subway cars, he wants to criminalize the selling of spray paint to minors.
- recrimination — the act of recriminating, or countercharging: Hope gave way to recrimination with both sides claiming the moral high ground.
- regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
- remand centre — correctional facility