13-letter words containing m, i, d
- postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
- powdered milk — dry milk.
- pre-committed — to give in trust or charge; consign.
- pre-mentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
- predetermined — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
- predeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, often quantitative in meaning, that may be placed before an article or other determiner, as all in all the paintings or half in half her salary.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- premeditation — an act or instance of premeditating.
- premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
- primigravidas — a woman pregnant for the first time.
- primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
- promised land — Heaven.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- pseudisodomic — (of ashlar) composed of stones having the same length, laid in courses of different heights.
- psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- put it mildly — You use to put it mildly to indicate that you are describing something in language that is much less strong, direct, or critical than what you really think.
- pycnoconidium — a pycnidiospore
- quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
- quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
- quadrumvirate — a governing or managing group, coalition, or the like, of four persons.
- quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
- quasi-medical — of or relating to the science or practice of medicine: medical history; medical treatment.
- quindicessima — (music) Two octaves higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up two octaves. Abbreviation: 15ma.
- radial motion — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
- radio compass — a radio receiver with a directional antenna for determining the bearing of the receiver from a radio transmitter.
- radioactinium — the radioactive isotope of thorium having a mass number 227 and a half-life of 18.8 days. Symbol: RdAc, Th 227.
- radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
- radiotelegram — a message transmitted by radiotelegraphy.
- railroad worm — the larva of a fruit fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, that burrows through apples, forming tunnels that sometimes appear on the skin as faint depressions or darkened trails: a serious pest of apples in colder regions of North America.
- randomization — to order or select in a random manner, as in a sample or experiment, especially in order to reduce bias and interference caused by irrelevant variables; make random.
- re-admittance — permission or right to enter: admittance into the exhibit room.
- re-indictment — an act of indicting.
- reindeer moss — any of several lichens of the genus Cladonia, especially the gray, many-branched C. rangiferina, of arctic and subarctic regions, eaten by reindeer and caribou.
- released time — time or a period allotted to a teacher apart from normal duties for a special activity, as personal research.
- remediability — the state of being able to be remedied
- reminder call — an automated service which you can set up in advance to make a telephone call to you at a fixed time for the purpose of reminding you of something important
- retransmitted — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- rhadamanthine — Classical Mythology. a son of Zeus and Europa, rewarded for the justice he exemplified on earth by being made, after his death, a judge in the Underworld, where he served with his brothers Minos and Aeacus.
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- richmond hill — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, N of Toronto.