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13-letter words containing i, r, o, n, s, m

  • on its merits — on the intrinsic qualities or virtues
  • organotropism — Physiology. the attraction of microorganisms or chemical substances to particular organs or tissues of the body.
  • ornamentalism — the desire or tendency to feature ornament in the design of buildings, interiors, furnishings, etc.
  • ornamentalist — A person who ornaments.
  • over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
  • paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
  • persian melon — a round variety of muskmelon having a green, reticulate, unribbed rind and orange flesh.
  • physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
  • piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
  • plus or minus — You use plus or minus to give the amount by which a particular number may vary.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
  • pons asinorum — a geometric proposition that if a triangle has two of its sides equal, the angles opposite these sides are also equal: so named from the difficulty experienced by beginners in mastering it. Euclid, 1:5.
  • 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.
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
  • postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
  • praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • premonishment — a forewarning
  • presubmission — an act or instance of submitting.
  • pretermission — to let pass without notice; disregard.
  • prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
  • pro-communist — (initial capital letter) a member of the Communist Party or movement.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
  • protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
  • protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
  • provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
  • ray tomlinson — (person)   An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
  • reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
  • recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
  • recompression — the act or process of compressing something again
  • reconsignment — a consigning again.
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • reindeer moss — any of several lichens of the genus Cladonia, especially the gray, many-branched C. rangiferina, of arctic and subarctic regions, eaten by reindeer and caribou.
  • remonstration — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • response time — Psychology. the time consumed in making a response.
  • restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
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