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

  • overcommunicate — to communicate excessively
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • overemotionally — In an overemotional manner.
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • overimaginative — imaginative to a fault
  • overprogramming — the act or instance of programming unnecessary details
  • overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • ozark mountains — an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas, and NE Oklahoma. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • pairs champions — competitors in or winners of a pairs championship
  • palaeolimnology — the study of ancient lake ecologies
  • palaeomagnetism — the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field
  • palaeomagnetist — a student of or expert in palaeomagnetism
  • paleolithic man — any of the prehistoric populations of humans, as the Cro-Magnon, living in the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs.
  • palindromically — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
  • panophthalmitis — the inflammation of all eye tissue
  • panoramic sight — an artillery sight that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle.
  • pantopragmatics — universal intervention in the affairs of others
  • parallel motion — a mechanism arranged so as to impart rectilinear motion to a rod connected to a lever that moves through an arc.
  • parametrization — a parametric representation; the act of representing as or defining parameters
  • parent compound — a compound from which derivatives may be obtained.
  • passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • payment holiday — a break taken from paying ( a debt etc) back
  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • performance car — a car that can go very fast and can increase its speed very quickly
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • pergamentaceous — (esp of plants) resembling parchment, whether in texture or composition
  • permanent tooth — any of the 32 adult teeth that replace the 20 milk teeth.
  • personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
  • peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.
  • phantom circuit — a circuit derived from two suitably arranged pairs of wires, each pair being a circuit (side circuit) and also acting as one half of an additional derived circuit, the entire system providing the capabilities of three circuits while requiring wires for only two.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phonemicization — a grouping of phonemes
  • phonocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a phonocardiograph.
  • phonogramically — in a phonogramic manner
  • photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
  • photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
  • phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • planned economy — an economic system in which the government controls and regulates production, distribution, prices, etc.
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platinum blonde — a person, especially a girl or woman, whose hair is of a pale blond or silver color, usually colored artificially by bleaching or dyeing.
  • pleuropneumonia — pleurisy conjoined with pneumonia.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • pneumatotherapy — the use of compressed or rarefied air in treating disease.
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
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