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

  • piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
  • plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
  • plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • pneumatometer — an instrument for measuring either the quantity of air inhaled or exhaled during a single inspiration or expiration or the force of inspiration or expiration.
  • pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
  • poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
  • polynomialism — a polynomial naming system
  • polysomnogram — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • pompano beach — a city in SE Florida.
  • pompon dahlia — a cultivated variety of the dahlia flower, with a small globelike flower head
  • pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • pons asinorum — a geometric proposition that if a triangle has two of its sides equal, the angles opposite these sides are also equal: so named from the difficulty experienced by beginners in mastering it. Euclid, 1:5.
  • poppy anemone — a southern European plant, Anemone coronaria, of the buttercup family, having tuberous roots and solitary, poppylike, red, blue, or white flowers, grown as an ornamental.
  • porte-monnaie — a purse or pocketbook
  • post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
  • potato famine — a severe shortage of food caused by the failure of the potato crop
  • 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
  • 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.
  • premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
  • prenomination — the act of naming in advance of a formal nomination
  • pretournament — occurring prior to a tournament
  • prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
  • 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.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
  • pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
  • protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
  • protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
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