13-letter words containing m, i, r, a, d, o
- molding board — a board upon which bread is kneaded, cookies prepared, etc.
- mood-altering — (especially of drugs) capable of changing one's emotional state.
- morris dancer — A morris dancer is a person who takes part in morris dancing.
- mountainboard — a type of skateboard specially designed for rough terrain and steep slopes, having four large wheels linked by a suspension system
- mourning band — a piece of black material, esp an armband, worn to indicate that the wearer is in mourning
- myocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a myocardiograph.
- name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
- narrow-minded — having or showing a prejudiced mind, as persons or opinions; biased.
- 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.
- nondemocratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- old man river — a name for the Mississippi River
- 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
- overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
- overdemanding — excessively demanding
- 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.
- overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- panradiometer — an instrument used for measuring radiant heat independently of wavelength
- 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.
- pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
- portrait mode — an orientation that is vertical rather than horizontal
- preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
- 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.
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- premeditation — an act or instance of premeditating.
- primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- promised land — Heaven.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- rock-fill dam — a dam built mainly of rocks of various sizes fitted compactly together.
- roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
- romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
- rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.