13-letter words containing m, i, a, o, u, s
- non-masculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- nucleoplasmic — Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm.
- numismatology — Numismatics.
- oil-based mud — Oil-based mud is a drilling fluid that is an emulsion containing oil as the base fluid.
- 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.
- optical mouse — (hardware) Any kind of mouse that uses visible light or infrared to detect changes in its position.
- overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- overstimulate — to stimulate too much
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
- pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
- papillomatous — a benign tumor of the skin or mucous membrane consisting of hypertrophied epithelial tissue, as a wart.
- paramyxovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses that are similar to but larger than the myxoviruses, including the viruses that cause mumps, measles, parainfluenza, and Newcastle disease.
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
- plagiostomous — plagiostome
- pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- 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
- polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
- 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.
- popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- psammophilous — living or growing in sand
- pusillanimous — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- 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.
- 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.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- sanctimonious — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
- sansculottism — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
- semi-autonomy — the quality or state of being semiautonomous.
- semiautomated — partially automated.
- semiautomatic — partly automatic.
- semioviparous — bearing young in an incomplete state of development, as a marsupial.
- social column — a column in a newspaper or magazine that details the activities of members of fashionable society
- sodium borate — borax1 .
- south america — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- south vietnam — a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- summarization — to make a summary of; state or express in a concise form.
- superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat