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13-letter words containing n, a, m, h

  • nonattachment — Lack of attachment, especially freedom from attachment to worldly things or goals, as in some Eastern philosophies.
  • nonhaemolytic — relating to a transfusion reaction in which the red blood cells survive
  • nonhomosexual — a person who is not homosexual
  • nonmechanical — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
  • nonmechanized — Unmechanized.
  • normal school — (formerly) a school offering a two-year course and certification to high-school graduates preparing to be teachers, especially elementary-school teachers.
  • norman french — Also called Norman. the French dialect of the Normans or of Normandy.
  • normocephalic — Having a normal sized head; neither macrocephalic nor microcephalic; mesocephalic.
  • north america — the northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Central America to the Arctic Ocean. Highest point, Mt. McKinley, 20,300 feet (6187 meters); lowest, Death Valley, 276 feet (84 meters) below sea level. About 9,360,000 sq. mi. (24,242,400 sq. km).
  • north vietnam — that part of Vietnam N of about 17° N; formerly a part of French Indochina; separate republic 1954–75.
  • not much of a — If you describe something as not much of a particular type of thing, you mean that it is small or of poor quality.
  • novo hamburgo — a city in Rio Grande do Sul state, S Brazil.
  • nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
  • nymphomaniacs — Plural form of nymphomaniac.
  • ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
  • on the market — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
  • one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • orchidomaniac — a person who is obsessed with or has a passion for orchids
  • organolithium — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to lithium bond.
  • ornithomantic — relating to ornithomancy
  • panaesthetism — the belief that consciousness may be present in all matter
  • panharmonicon — a mechanical instrument that imitates orchestral sounds
  • parental home — a school for problem children.
  • party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
  • patch pumpkin — pumpkin
  • patent hammer — a hammer for dressing stone, having a head with two faces formed of a number of broad, thin chisels bolted side by side.
  • pathognomonic — Medicine/Medical. characteristic or diagnostic of a specific disease: a pathognomonic sign of pneumonia.
  • penthemimeral — (of a caesura) occurring after the first penthemimer of a poetic line, i.e. in the middle of the third foot
  • phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
  • pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
  • phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
  • phantasmality — the condition or character of being incorporeal and illusory
  • 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.
  • phenmetrazine — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO, used chiefly to control the appetite in the treatment of obesity.
  • 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.
  • phenylmethane — toluene.
  • phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
  • photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • 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
  • plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
  • platyhelminth — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes; a flatworm.
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
  • 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
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