13-letter words containing m, e, n, s, r
- mons serratus — a mountain in NE Spain, northwest of Barcelona: famous Benedictine monastery. Height: 1235 m (4054 ft)
- monster truck — a pick-up truck with extremely large tyres, often used for racing over rough terrain
- monstre sacré — a venerable or popular public figure who is considered above criticism or attack despite eccentricity, controversy, etc.
- monstrosities — Plural form of monstrosity.
- monstrousness — frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
- montes claros — a city in E Brazil.
- mooring screw — a broad, augerlike anchor used for securing buoys in soft-bottomed lakes, rivers, etc.
- more hands on — characterized by or involved in active personal participation in an activity; individual and direct: a workshop to give children hands-on experience with computers.
- morning dress — formal daytime apparel for men, including striped pants, a cutaway, and a silk hat.
- morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- morris dancer — A morris dancer is a person who takes part in morris dancing.
- morse signals — signals encoded using the Morse Code
- mortise joint — any of various joints between two pieces of timber or the like in which a tenon is housed in or secured to a mortise.
- most reverend — title of high-ranking church minister
- motion sensor — device that detects movement
- mount everest — Mount, a mountain in S Asia, on the boundary between Nepal and Tibet, in the Himalayas: the highest mountain in the world. 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
- mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
- mulier puisne — the legitimate son of parents whose first son was illegitimate.
- multi-sensory — of or relating to the senses or sensation.
- multipresence — the quality or state of being multipresent
- multistranded — having several strands
- murderousness — The state or condition of being murderous.
- murmurousness — Quality of being murmurous.
- naive realism — the theory that the world is perceived exactly as it is.
- nanochemistry — (chemistry) The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale.
- nanomaterials — Plural form of nanomaterial.
- neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
- neoliberalism — an outgrowth of the U.S. liberal movement, beginning in the late 1960s, that modified somewhat its traditional endorsement of all trade unions and opposition to big business and military buildup.
- neosurrealism — a revival of the 20th-century surrealism movement in art, especially painting and sculpture, depicting the imagery of dreams and the subconscious mind.
- nephelometers — Plural form of nephelometer.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- nerve impulse — a progressive wave of electric and chemical activity along a nerve fiber that stimulates or inhibits the action of a muscle, gland, or other nerve cell.
- nervomuscular — (physiology) Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles.
- network storm — broadcast storm
- neuraminidase — An enzyme, present in many pathogenic or symbiotic microorganisms, that catalyzes the breakdown of glycosides containing neuraminic acid.
- neurilemmomas — Plural form of neurilemmoma.
- neuroblastoma — a malignant tumor of immature nerve cells that usually starts in the autonomic nervous system or adrenal gland and spreads quickly, most often affecting young children.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- neurohormones — Plural form of neurohormone.
- neuromuscular — pertaining to or affecting both nerves and muscles.
- neuromyelitis — (pathology) inflammation of both the spinal cord and nerves.
- new amsterdam — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
- new criticism — (often initial capital letters) an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.
- new hampshire — a state in the NE United States. 9304 sq. mi. (24,100 sq. km). Capital: Concord. Abbreviation: NH (for use with zip code), N.H.
- new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
- noise limiter — an electronic circuit that cuts off all noise peaks that are stronger than some specific maximum for the desired input signal, thus limiting atmospheric and other interference.
- nomenclatures — Plural form of nomenclature.
- nonmainstream — denoting someone or something not in the main current (of style, culture, etc)