13-letter words containing m, o, r, n, e
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
- 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.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- popcorn movie — a film that appeals to a mass audience
- porte-monnaie — a purse or pocketbook
- post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- postemergence — occurring or applied after emergence of a plant from the soil and before full growth: postemergence frost.
- postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
- postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
- posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
- potentiometer — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
- powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
- 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-mentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
- preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- precommitment — the act of committing.
- 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.