13-letter words containing m, e, a, n
- nutmeg grater — a utensil used to grate the seed nutmeg, so that is can be used as a spice in cooking, etc
- nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
- occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
- 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.
- old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
- old testament — the first of the two main divisions of the Christian Bible, comprising the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa. In the Vulgate translation all but two books of the Apocrypha are included in the Old Testament.
- oleomargarine — margarine.
- omnicorporeal — Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance.
- on one's game — playing well
- on the market — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- one-room flat — a studio flat in which the bedroom, sitting-room and kitchen are all one-room
- 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.
- onomatopoeial — (obsolete, rare) Of or pertaining to onomatopoeia.
- onomatopoeias — Plural form of onomatopoeia.
- onomatopoetic — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- open marriage — a marriage in which the partners agree that each is free to have sexual relationships with other partners.
- opera company — a company that puts on productions of operas
- oral examiner — someone who administers oral exams
- ornamentalism — the desire or tendency to feature ornament in the design of buildings, interiors, furnishings, etc.
- ornamentalist — A person who ornaments.
- ornamentality — used or grown for ornament: ornamental plants.
- ornamentation — the act of ornamenting.
- osborne, adam — Adam Osborne
- outmaneuvered — Simple past tense and past participle of outmaneuver.
- outmanipulate — to surpass in manipulation
- outmanoeuvred — Simple past tense and past participle of outmanoeuvre.
- overallotment — (finance) A greenshoe option.
- overdemanding — excessively demanding
- overdominance — excessive dominance
- overemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- overenamoured — excessively fond
- overimitation — a result or product of imitating.
- overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
- overstatement — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
- overtreatment — the act or instance of giving too much medical treatment
- oxymetazoline — a sympathomimetic drug, C 1 6 H 2 4 N 2 O, used as a topical, long-lasting nasal decongestant.
- painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
- paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
- panaesthetism — the belief that consciousness may be present in all matter
- pancreatotomy — incision of the pancreas.
- panradiometer — an instrument used for measuring radiant heat independently of wavelength
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- paralipomenon — Chronicles.
- paramagnetism — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- paramenstruum — the four days before and first four days of menstruation
- parental home — a school for problem children.
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- parking meter — a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.