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13-letter words containing c, o, m, n, s, a

  • nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
  • nymphomaniacs — Plural form of nymphomaniac.
  • occasionalism — a theory that there is no natural interaction between mind and matter, but that God makes mental events correspond to physical perceptions and actions.
  • occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
  • onomastically — In an onomastic way.
  • pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
  • paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
  • pentatonicism — the use of a five-tone scale.
  • 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).
  • phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
  • photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
  • poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
  • 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.
  • promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
  • provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
  • psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
  • 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.
  • reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • sanctimonious — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
  • sanction mark — a mark on pieces of 19th-century French furniture signifying that the piece met the quality standards required by the Parisian guild of ebonists
  • sansculottism — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
  • semidominance — incomplete dominance.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • sex chromatin — Barr body.
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • 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.
  • single combat — combat between two persons.
  • social column — a column in a newspaper or magazine that details the activities of members of fashionable society
  • social gaming — the playing of online games on social media websites.
  • social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
  • spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
  • spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
  • stagecoachman — the driver or operator of a stagecoach
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
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