13-letter words containing m, o, n, c, a
- octane number — (of gasoline) a designation of antiknock quality, numerically equal to the percentage of isooctane by volume in a mixture of isooctane and normal heptane that matches the given gasoline in antiknock characteristics.
- omnicorporeal — Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance.
- onomastically — In an onomastic way.
- onomatopoetic — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- opera company — a company that puts on productions of operas
- orchidomaniac — a person who is obsessed with or has a passion for orchids
- ornithomantic — relating to ornithomancy
- overdominance — excessive dominance
- paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
- palmification — the fertilization of date palms artificially
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
- pancreatotomy — incision of the pancreas.
- panharmonicon — a mechanical instrument that imitates orchestral sounds
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- pathognomonic — Medicine/Medical. characteristic or diagnostic of a specific disease: a pathognomonic sign of pneumonia.
- peace of mind — reassurance
- pentatonicism — the use of a five-tone scale.
- phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- 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.
- pomme blanche — breadroot.
- pompano beach — a city in SE Florida.
- 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.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- protoactinium — protactinium.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- 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
- radioactinium — the radioactive isotope of thorium having a mass number 227 and a half-life of 18.8 days. Symbol: RdAc, Th 227.
- ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
- ramon y cajal — Santiago [sahn-tyah-gaw] /sɑnˈtyɑ gɔ/ (Show IPA), 1852–1934, Spanish histologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1906.
- 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-access — direct-access.
- rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- reaction time — the interval between stimulation and response.