13-letter words containing n, o, c, a
- magnetostatic — Of or pertaining to magnetostatics.
- magnification — the act of magnifying or the state of being magnified.
- magniloquence — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
- magnoliaceous — belonging to the plant family Magnoliaceae.
- malacostracan — belonging or pertaining to the crustacean subclass Malacostraca, which includes the lobsters, shrimps, crabs, etc.
- malfunctional — Not functioning as intended.
- malfunctioned — Simple past tense and past participle of malfunction.
- maliciousness — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malleoincudal — Of or relating to both the malleus and the incus.
- mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
- mangrove jack — a predatory food and game fish, Lutjanus argentimaculatus, of Australian rivers and tidal creeks dominated by mangroves
- manhole cover — a removable metal plate covering a shaft that leads down to a sewer or drain
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- many-coloured — having many colours
- marching song — a song with the rhythm of a march, esp sung by marching soldiers
- marchionesses — Plural form of marchioness.
- mare chronium — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- marginal cost — the cost of one additional unit of any item produced or bought in quantity.
- massification — the practice of making luxury products available to the mass market
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- matriculation — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
- mechanisation — Alternative spelling of mechanization.
- mechanization — to make mechanical.
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- megalomaniacs — Plural form of megalomaniac.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- mellification — the production of honey from nectar
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
- meningococcal — (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or caused by meningococci.
- mercerisation — A process of treating cotton with sodium hydroxide in order to make it more lustrous.
- mercerization — to treat (cotton yarns or fabric) with caustic alkali under tension, in order to increase strength, luster, and affinity for dye.
- mescal button — one of the dried, buttonlike tops of a mescal of the genus Lophophora, used as a hallucinogen, especially by certain Indians of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. during religious ceremonies; peyote.
- mesencephalon — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- metacognition — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- metacognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- metafictional — Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metallic bond — the type of chemical bond between atoms in a metallic element, formed by the valence electrons moving freely through the metal lattice.
- metencephalon — the anterior section of the hindbrain, comprising the cerebellum and pons.
- method acting — film, theater: acting approach
- metonymically — In a metonymic fashion; using metonymy.
- metrification — metrication.
- mexican poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
- micro-organic — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
- microanalyses — Plural form of microanalysis.
- microanalysis — Chemistry. the analysis of very small samples of substances.
- microaneurysm — An extremely small aneurysm.