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13-letter words containing h, o, m, p, n

  • non-ephemeral — lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory: the ephemeral joys of childhood.
  • nonmembership — the fact or condition of being a nonmember
  • normocephalic — Having a normal sized head; neither macrocephalic nor microcephalic; mesocephalic.
  • not much chop — not much good; poor
  • nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
  • nymphomaniacs — Plural form of nymphomaniac.
  • ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
  • one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • openmouthedly — in a manner filled with amazement and wonder
  • over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
  • panharmonicon — a mechanical instrument that imitates orchestral sounds
  • parental home — a school for problem children.
  • pathognomonic — Medicine/Medical. characteristic or diagnostic of a specific disease: a pathognomonic sign of pneumonia.
  • perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
  • pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
  • phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
  • 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).
  • pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
  • phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phenomenality — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.
  • phenomenalize — to regard or interpret as a phenomenon.
  • phenomenology — the study of phenomena.
  • phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
  • photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • photoemission — photoelectric effect.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
  • physiognomies — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • physostigmine — an alkaloid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to raise the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and also as a miotic in glaucoma.
  • plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
  • 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
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • pompano beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • pompon dahlia — a cultivated variety of the dahlia flower, with a small globelike flower head
  • post-midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
  • premonishment — a forewarning
  • promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
  • 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.
  • rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • shipping room — a place in a business concern where goods are packed and shipped.
  • shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
  • shopping mall — mall (def 1).
  • smooth-spoken — speaking or spoken easily and softly.
  • spanish broom — a spiny, often leafless shrub, Genista hispanica, of the legume family, native to southern Europe, having clustered, golden-yellow flowers and hairy pods.
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