13-letter words containing c, h, o, m
- mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
- myrmecophiles — Plural form of myrmecophile.
- mythicization — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
- mythification — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
- nanochemistry — (chemistry) The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale.
- nephelometric — Bacteriology. an apparatus containing a series of barium chloride standards used to determine the number of bacteria in a suspension.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- nephrectomize — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
- neurochemical — of or relating to neurochemistry.
- nithiocyamine — Amoscanate.
- nodical month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- non-chromatic — pertaining to color or colors.
- non-rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- nonattachment — Lack of attachment, especially freedom from attachment to worldly things or goals, as in some Eastern philosophies.
- nonhaemolytic — relating to a transfusion reaction in which the red blood cells survive
- nonmechanical — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
- nonmechanized — Unmechanized.
- 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).
- north merrick — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- not much chop — not much good; poor
- not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
- nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
- nymphomaniacs — Plural form of nymphomaniac.
- object method — (programming) In object-oriented programming, a function that is called, or "invoked", on an object, as opposed to a class method which is invoked on a class. For example, a class "Person" might have an object method to return a person's name and a class method to return the number of people. An object method called on an object of class C may be defined by C or may be inherited from one of C's superclasses.
- oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
- onychomycosis — Fungal infection of the nail, especially the toenail.
- opthalmoscope — Misspelling of ophthalmoscope.
- optic chiasma — a site at the base of the forebrain where the inner half of the fibers of the left and right optic nerves cross to the opposite side of the brain.
- 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
- orchiectomies — Plural form of orchiectomy.
- ornithomantic — relating to ornithomancy
- palm-oil chop — a W African dish made with meat and palm oil
- panharmonicon — a mechanical instrument that imitates orchestral sounds
- pathognomonic — Medicine/Medical. characteristic or diagnostic of a specific disease: a pathognomonic sign of pneumonia.
- peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- petrochemical — a chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
- phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
- 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.
- phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
- photochemical — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
- photochromism — the reversible transformation of something's colour due to exposure to electromagnetic radiation such as sunlight
- photocomposer — a machine for setting type photographically.