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13-letter words containing n, u, m, s

  • outdoorswomen — Plural form of outdoorswoman.
  • outsettlement — a distant or remote settlement.
  • pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
  • pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • paramenstruum — the four days before and first four days of menstruation
  • paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
  • perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
  • platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
  • plenum system — a type of air-conditioning system in which air is passed into a room at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure
  • plumbosolvent — able to dissolve lead
  • plus or minus — You use plus or minus to give the amount by which a particular number may vary.
  • pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • postcommunion — the part of a communion service that follows after the congregation has received communion.
  • postliminious — subsequently undertaken
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • presubmission — an act or instance of submitting.
  • pro-communist — (initial capital letter) a member of the Communist Party or movement.
  • prolegomenous — prefatory; preliminary; introductory.
  • protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • pusillanimity — the state or condition of being pusillanimous; timidity; cowardliness.
  • pusillanimous — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
  • quantum state — the condition in which a physical system exists, usually described by a wave function or a set of quantum numbers.
  • queen's metal — any of several alloys containing antimony and tin and resembling britannia metal
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • question time — a time set aside in a session during which members of a parliament may question a minister or ministers regarding state affairs.
  • quindicessima — (music) Two octaves higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up two octaves. Abbreviation: 15ma.
  • quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
  • quinquenniums — Plural form of quinquennium.
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
  • remeasurement — the process of measuring again
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
  • revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
  • rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
  • rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
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