13-letter words containing m, o, n, r
- outmaneuvered — Simple past tense and past participle of outmaneuver.
- outmanoeuvred — Simple past tense and past participle of outmanoeuvre.
- outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
- over the moon — extremely joyful
- over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- over-vehement — characterized by rancor or anger; violent: vehement hostility.
- 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
- pancreatotomy — incision of the pancreas.
- panharmonicon — a mechanical instrument that imitates orchestral sounds
- panradiometer — an instrument used for measuring radiant heat independently of wavelength
- paralipomenon — Chronicles.
- paranormality — the state of being paranormal
- parental home — a school for problem children.
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- partitionment — the act or fact of being partitioned
- pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
- 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.
- phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- pink bollworm — the larva of a gelechiid moth, Pectinophora gossypiella, that feeds on the seeds of the bolls of cotton and was introduced into cotton-growing regions of the world from Asia.
- plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
- plus or minus — You use plus or minus to give the amount by which a particular number may vary.
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- 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.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- polysomnogram — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
- 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.
- popcorn movie — a film that appeals to a mass audience
- porte-monnaie — a purse or pocketbook