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13-letter words containing s, i, n, t, r

  • open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
  • operativeness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
  • opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
  • opportunistic — adhering to a policy of opportunism; practicing opportunism.
  • opportunities — Plural form of opportunity.
  • oppositionary — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
  • oral solution — An oral solution is a medicine in liquid form for drinking.
  • orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
  • orchestration — (uncountable) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
  • organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
  • organisations — Plural form of organisation.
  • organizations — The action of organizing something.
  • organotropism — Physiology. the attraction of microorganisms or chemical substances to particular organs or tissues of the body.
  • originalities — Plural form of originality.
  • ornamentalism — the desire or tendency to feature ornament in the design of buildings, interiors, furnishings, etc.
  • ornamentalist — A person who ornaments.
  • ornithischian — any herbivorous dinosaur of the order Ornithischia, having a pelvis resembling that of a bird. Compare saurischian.
  • ornithologist — the branch of zoology that deals with birds.
  • orthodontists — Plural form of orthodontist.
  • orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
  • ostracisation — Alternative form of ostracization.
  • ostracization — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
  • outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
  • over-standing — overreach (def 13).
  • over-trusting — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
  • overassertion — assertion of something to an excessive or unnecessary degree
  • overextension — to extend, reach, or expand beyond a proper, safe, or reasonable point: a company that overextended its credit to diversify.
  • overhastiness — the condition of being overhasty
  • overinsistent — excessively insistent
  • overintensity — the state of being too intense
  • oversecretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
  • oversensitive — excessively or unduly sensitive.
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • painterliness — the quality of being painterly
  • pangrammatist — a writer of pangrams
  • 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.
  • pantisocratic — relating to pantisocracy
  • para-centesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
  • paramagnetism — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
  • parasynthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
  • parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
  • parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
  • parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
  • parthian shot — a sharp, telling remark, act, gesture, etc., made in departing.
  • parting strip — a strip, as of wood, used to keep two parts separated, as one in each side of the frame of a window to keep the sashes apart when lowered or raised.
  • passementerie — trimming of braid, cord, bead, etc., in any of various forms.
  • passion fruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
  • past anterior — a pluperfect verb (in French)
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