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13-letter words containing m, o, n, a, d

  • pompon dahlia — a cultivated variety of the dahlia flower, with a small globelike flower head
  • 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.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • radioactinium — the radioactive isotope of thorium having a mass number 227 and a half-life of 18.8 days. Symbol: RdAc, Th 227.
  • random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
  • random number — pseudorandom number
  • random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
  • random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
  • random-access — direct-access.
  • 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.
  • reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
  • recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
  • redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • rond de jambe — a circular movement of the leg.
  • 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
  • round kumquat — an evergreen, citrus shrub or small tree, Fortunella japonica, of Japan, having blunt, broad leaves and globe-shaped, edible fruit.
  • salmon ladder — a series of steps in a river designed to enable salmon to bypass a dam and move upstream to their breeding grounds
  • santo domingo — a republic in the West Indies, occupying the E part of the island of Hispaniola. 19,129 sq. mi. (49,545 sq. km). Capital: Santo Domingo.
  • santos-dumont — Alberto [ahl-ber-too] /ɑlˈbɛr tʊ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1932, Brazilian aeronaut in France: designer and builder of dirigibles and airships.
  • scandalmonger — a person who spreads scandal or gossip.
  • sedimentation — the deposition or accumulation of sediment.
  • self-enamored — to fill or inflame with love (usually used in the passive and followed by of or sometimes with): to be enamored of a certain lady; a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
  • semi-nomadism — a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply.
  • semidominance — incomplete dominance.
  • shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
  • silla kingdom — an ancient Korean state that unified Korea; flourished in the 7th–10th centuries a.d.
  • small holding — a piece of land rented or sold to a farmer by county authorities for purposes of cultivation.
  • smoked salmon — pink-fleshed fish cooked by smoking
  • smoking stand — an ashtray mounted on a low pedestal, often placed next to an armchair, sofa, etc.
  • social-minded — interested in or concerned with social conditions or the welfare of society.
  • solifidianism — a person who maintains that faith alone, without the performance of good works, is all that is necessary for salvation.
  • standing room — space in which to stand, as in a theater, stadium, or the like.
  • standover man — a person who extorts money by intimidation
  • state of mind — mental condition, mood
  • superdominant — submediant.
  • tandem roller — a type of road roller in which the front and back wheels consist of rollers of about the same diameter
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