13-letter words containing m, e, d, o
- mastoidectomy — the removal of part of a mastoid process, usually for draining an infection.
- matched order — an order placed with a broker to buy a specified stock at a price above the market price with the intention of immediately selling the stock through another broker at the same price. It is designed to give the appearance of active trading in the stock.
- material mode — the normal use of language that refers to extra-linguistic subjects without explicit mention of the words themselves. Fido is a dog is in the material mode, while "Fido" is a dog's name is in the formal mode
- maxillodental — Relating to the jaw and teeth.
- maxwell demon — a hypothetical agent or device of arbitrarily small mass that is considered to admit or block selectively the passage of individual molecules from one compartment to another according to their speed, constituting a violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
- meadow beauty — any of several North American plants of the genus Rhexia, especially R. mariana or R. virginica, having showy rose-pink flowers with eight prominent bright yellow stamens.
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- mealy-mouthed — avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince words; insincere, devious, or compromising.
- measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- medium bomber — a moderately large airplane capable of carrying large bomb loads for moderate distances at medium altitudes, especially one having a gross loaded weight of 100,000 to 250,000 pounds (45,000 to 113,000 kg).
- medium octavo — a size of book, about 6 × 9½ inches (15 × 24 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 8vo.
- medium quarto — a size of book, about 9½ × 12 inches (24 × 30 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: medium 4to.
- melodiousness — The property of being melodious.
- melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
- melodramatist — A writer of melodramas.
- melodramatize — to make melodramatic.
- mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
- meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
- mesityl oxide — an oily, colorless liquid, C 6 H 1 0 O, having a honeylike odor: used chiefly as a solvent and in the manufacture of synthetic organic compounds.
- message board — bulletin board system
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- metamorphosed — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metatoluidine — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 7 H 9 N, the meta isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes and other organic compounds.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- methodistical — Methodistic.
- methodization — The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.
- methodologies — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- methodologist — a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.
- metronidazole — a synthetic antimicrobial substance, C 6 H 9 N 3 O 3 , used chiefly in the treatment of infections, such as Trichomonas vaginalis and certain anaerobic bacterial infections.
- micr encoding — The MICR encoding of a check is the magnetic ink pattern at the bottom that can be scanned and that contains information about the check.
- microdetector — an instrument measuring small quantities or changes.
- microdiskette — Alternative spelling of micro-diskette.
- mid wicket on — mid on.
- middle comedy — Greek Attic comedy of the 4th century b.c. The few extant fragments are characterized chiefly by a realistic depiction of everyday life.
- middle course — an option or alternative between more extreme alternatives
- middle ground — an intermediate position, area, or recourse between two opposites or extremes; a halfway or neutral standpoint.
- middle school — a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
- middle-income — of or relating to those with an average income within the overall population.
- middleborough — a town in SE Massachusetts.
- middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
- milford haven — a bay in SW Wales.
- mindanao deep — an area in the Pacific Ocean W of the Philippines: one of deepest points in any ocean. 34,440 feet (10,497 meters).
- mine detector — an electromagnetic device for locating buried or concealed land mines.
- mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
- minimum order — A minimum order is the smallest amount or number that may be ordered in one delivery, usually to spread delivery costs over an economical number of units.