13-letter words containing o, a, r, y
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
- microtonality — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
- minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
- model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
- molly maguire — Irish History. a member of a secret terrorist society organized in Ireland in 1843 to prevent evictions by the government: so called because the members disguised themselves as women.
- monarchically — In a monarchic or monarchical fashion.
- monetary unit — the standard unit of value of the currency of a country, as the dollar in the U.S. and the franc in France.
- money matters — issues concerning finances or money, esp your own finances or money
- money-changer — a person whose business is the exchange of currency, usually of different countries, at a fixed or official rate.
- moneychangers — Plural form of moneychanger.
- monkey around — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
- monterey jack — a mild, light-yellow, semisoft cheese
- monterey park — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- moral victory — greater honour despite losing
- morality play — an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
- moreno valley — city in S Calif.: pop. 142,000
- morgan le fay — the fairy sister of King Arthur.
- morphemically — By means of, or in terms, of morphemes.
- morpho-syntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
- mountebankery — The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
- multicategory — (mathematics) A generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity.
- multipolarity — The condition of being multipolar.
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- mycobacterial — (medicine) Of or pertaining to mycobacteria.
- mycobacterium — A bacterium of a group that includes the causative agents of leprosy and tuberculosis.
- myocardiogram — the graphic record produced by a myocardiograph.
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
- mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
- nanochemistry — (chemistry) The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale.
- narcoanalysis — a method of psychological investigation in which the conscious or unconscious unwillingness of a subject to express memories or feelings is diminished by the use of a barbiturate drug.
- narcohypnosis — the use of drugs to induce hypnosis
- nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- neuroatypical — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
- non-budgetary — an estimate, often itemized, of expected income and expense for a given period in the future.
- non-customary — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- non-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- non-fiduciary — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- non-mandatory — authoritatively ordered; obligatory; compulsory: It is mandatory that all students take two years of math.
- non-repayable — to pay back or refund, as money.
- non-sedentary — accustomed to sit or rest a great deal or to take little exercise.
- non-signatory — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
- nonambulatory — of, relating to, or capable of walking: an ambulatory exploration of the countryside.
- noncreativity — a lack of creativity
- nondefamatory — Not defamatory.
- nonelementary — relating to a complexity class in computational complexity theory
- nonhereditary — passing, or capable of passing, naturally from parent to offspring through the genes: Blue eyes are hereditary in our family. Compare congenital.
- nonhysterical — not hysterical or funny