13-letter words containing o, n, s, m
- manipulations — Plural form of manipulation.
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- mansion house — the residence of the Lord Mayor of London
- mansplanation — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- marching song — a song with the rhythm of a march, esp sung by marching soldiers
- marchionesses — Plural form of marchioness.
- marginal cost — the cost of one additional unit of any item produced or bought in quantity.
- marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
- marvelousness — The quality or state of being marvelous.
- mass movement — an organized effort by a large number of people, especially those not forming part of the elite of a given society, to bring about pervasive changes in existing social, economic, or political institutions, frequently characterized by charismatic leadership.
- massification — the practice of making luxury products available to the mass market
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- mating season — the period during each year when a particular bird, animal, or fish mates
- matt emulsion — a water-based paint which is not shiny when it dries
- mcmurdo sound — an inlet of Ross Sea, in Antarctica, N of Victoria Land.
- measuring rod — ruler, gauge, stick for measuring
- measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
- mechanisation — Alternative spelling of mechanization.
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- meeting house — a house or building for religious worship.
- meeting-house — a house or building for religious worship.
- meetinghouses — Plural form of meetinghouse.
- megalomaniacs — Plural form of megalomaniac.
- megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- melancholious — (obsolete) melancholy.
- melanochroous — having dark-coloured or black skin
- melanogenesis — the production of melanin
- melodiousness — The property of being melodious.
- membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
- memorableness — Memorability.
- memorialising — Present participle of memorialise.
- mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
- meningococcus — a reniform or spherical bacterium, Neisseria meningitidis, that causes cerebrospinal meningitis.
- mercerisation — A process of treating cotton with sodium hydroxide in order to make it more lustrous.
- 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.
- mesmerization — to hypnotize.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- messenger boy — A messenger boy is a boy who is employed to take messages to people.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metallophones — Plural form of metallophone.
- metropolitans — Plural form of metropolitan.
- mezzo soprano — a voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
- mezzo-soprano — a voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
- microanalyses — Plural form of microanalysis.
- microanalysis — Chemistry. the analysis of very small samples of substances.
- microaneurysm — An extremely small aneurysm.