13-letter words containing o, n, s, m
- premonishment — a forewarning
- presubmission — an act or instance of submitting.
- pretermission — to let pass without notice; disregard.
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- pro-communist — (initial capital letter) a member of the Communist Party or movement.
- prolegomenous — prefatory; preliminary; introductory.
- promised land — Heaven.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
- protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- 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.
- pusillanimous — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- 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.
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
- random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
- random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
- random-access — direct-access.
- ray tomlinson — (person) An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
- recompression — the act or process of compressing something again
- reconsignment — a consigning again.
- redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- 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.
- 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.
- remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
- remonstration — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- remonstratory — characterized by protest or expostulation
- remote sensor — any instrument, such as a radar device or camera, that scans the earth or another planet from space in order to collect data about some aspect of it
- response time — Psychology. the time consumed in making a response.
- 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.
- revolutionism — a belief in revolution or revolutionary ideas
- rhesus monkey — animal: macaque
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- 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.
- ribosomal rna — a type of RNA, distinguished by its length and abundance, functioning in protein synthesis as a component of ribosomes. Abbreviation: rRNA.
- roman letters — a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
- romanticising — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
- rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
- 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.
- royal marines — a corps of soldiers specially trained in amphibious warfare
- saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.