13-letter words containing m, o, i, r, a
- praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
- preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- 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.
- prenomination — the act of naming in advance of a formal nomination
- primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
- primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
- primary tooth — one of the temporary teeth of a mammal that are replaced by the permanent teeth.
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- profit margin — the percentage that profit constitutes of total sales.
- profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- promised land — Heaven.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- proto-elamite — the indigenous script of Elam, found on inscriptions and tablets from the fourth millennium b.c.
- protoactinium — protactinium.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- 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
- question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
- racial memory — feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.
- 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.
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
- 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.
- rational form — a quotient of two polynomials with integral coefficients.
- ray tomlinson — (person) An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
- reaction time — the interval between stimulation and response.
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reaffirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.