13-letter words containing m, o, n, e
- overallotment — (finance) A greenshoe option.
- overdemanding — excessively demanding
- overdetermine — Determine, account for, or cause (something) in more than one way or with more conditions than are necessary.
- overdominance — excessive dominance
- overemotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
- overenamoured — excessively fond
- overimitation — a result or product of imitating.
- overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
- overstatement — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
- overtreatment — the act or instance of giving too much medical treatment
- oxyhemoglobin — the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color and serves to convey oxygen to the tissues: occurs in reduced form (deoxyhemoglobin) in venous blood and in combination with oxygen (oxyhemoglobin) in arterial blood. Symbol: Hb.
- oxymetazoline — a sympathomimetic drug, C 1 6 H 2 4 N 2 O, used as a topical, long-lasting nasal decongestant.
- painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
- paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
- pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
- pancreatotomy — incision of the pancreas.
- panradiometer — an instrument used for measuring radiant heat independently of wavelength
- paralipomenon — Chronicles.
- parental home — a school for problem children.
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- partitionment — the act or fact of being partitioned
- peace of mind — reassurance
- pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
- pentatonicism — the use of a five-tone scale.
- perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
- persian melon — a round variety of muskmelon having a green, reticulate, unribbed rind and orange flesh.
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- phenomenality — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.
- phenomenalize — to regard or interpret as a phenomenon.
- phenomenology — the study of phenomena.
- photoemission — photoelectric effect.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- physiognomies — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- physostigmine — an alkaloid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to raise the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and also as a miotic in glaucoma.
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- 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.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- plimsoll line — load line (def 1).
- plumbosolvent — able to dissolve lead
- 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.