13-letter words containing o, d, i, s, m
- modem session — a period of time during which a computer is connected to another through a modem.
- moderationist — a person who favors, supports, or promotes moderation.
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- modernisation — Alternative spelling of modernization.
- modifications — Plural form of modification.
- modus vivendi — manner of living; way of life; lifestyle.
- mohammedanism — Muhammadanism; Islam.
- molluscicidal — relating to a preparation that kills molluscs
- molluscicides — Plural form of molluscicide.
- monkey island — a flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.
- monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
- mood disorder — any mental disorder, as depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, or cyclothymia, in which a major disturbance of feelings or emotions is predominant.
- morning dress — formal daytime apparel for men, including striped pants, a cutaway, and a silk hat.
- morris dancer — A morris dancer is a person who takes part in morris dancing.
- mountainsides — Plural form of mountainside.
- multitudinous — forming a multitude or great number; existing, occurring, or present in great numbers; very numerous.
- neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
- occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
- oil-based mud — Oil-based mud is a drilling fluid that is an emulsion containing oil as the base fluid.
- ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
- on one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
- over-promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- overdramatise — Alternative spelling of overdramatize.
- overestimated — Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
- overimpressed — very impressed
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
- parasitoidism — the feeding by certain insect larvae on host tissues such that the host remains alive until larval development is complete and then usually dies.
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- post meridiem — p.m.
- post-midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- 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
- 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
- prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
- promised land — Heaven.
- pseudisodomic — (of ashlar) composed of stones having the same length, laid in courses of different heights.
- psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- radio compass — a radio receiver with a directional antenna for determining the bearing of the receiver from a radio transmitter.
- reindeer moss — any of several lichens of the genus Cladonia, especially the gray, many-branched C. rangiferina, of arctic and subarctic regions, eaten by reindeer and caribou.
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- sadomasochism — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
- sadomasochist — interaction, especially sexual activity, in which one person enjoys inflicting physical or mental suffering on another person, who derives pleasure from experiencing pain.
- santo domingo — a republic in the West Indies, occupying the E part of the island of Hispaniola. 19,129 sq. mi. (49,545 sq. km). Capital: Santo Domingo.
- sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect