13-letter words containing m, i, d
- nunc dimittis — (italics) the canticle beginning with the words of Simeon, in Luke 2:29–32, “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.”.
- nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
- obiter dictum — an incidental or passing remark, opinion, etc.
- occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
- oil-based mud — Oil-based mud is a drilling fluid that is an emulsion containing oil as the base fluid.
- old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
- ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
- on one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- open-timbered — constructed so that the timbers are exposed.
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- orchidomaniac — a person who is obsessed with or has a passion for orchids
- over-promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
- overcommitted — to commit more than is feasible, desirable, or necessary.
- overdemanding — excessively demanding
- overdetermine — Determine, account for, or cause (something) in more than one way or with more conditions than are necessary.
- overdominance — excessive dominance
- overdramatise — Alternative spelling of overdramatize.
- overdramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- overestimated — Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
- overimpressed — very impressed
- overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
- overmultitude — to exceed in number
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
- palmitic acid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 6 H 3 2 O 2 , obtained by hydrolysis from palm oil and natural fats, in which it occurs as the glyceride, and from spermaceti: used in the manufacture of soap.
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
- panradiometer — an instrument used for measuring radiant heat independently of wavelength
- paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
- parameterised — to describe (a phenomenon, problem, curve, surface, etc.) by the use of parameters.
- parasitoidism — the feeding by certain insect larvae on host tissues such that the host remains alive until larval development is complete and then usually dies.
- peace of mind — reassurance
- pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- pedestrianism — the exercise or practice of walking.
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- picramic acid — a red, crystalline substance, C 6 H 5 N 3 O 5 , soluble in alcohol, used chiefly in the manufacture of azo dyes.
- plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
- plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
- platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
- platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- pompon dahlia — a cultivated variety of the dahlia flower, with a small globelike flower head
- portrait mode — an orientation that is vertical rather than horizontal
- post meridiem — p.m.
- post-midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- 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.