13-letter words containing s, t, a, n, o
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- macro-segment — a stretch of speech preceded and followed but not interrupted by a pause.
- magnet school — a public school with special programs and instruction that are not available elsewhere in a school district and that are specially designed to draw students from throughout a district, especially to aid in desegregation.
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- magnetisation — Alternative spelling of magnetization.
- magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
- magnetometers — Plural form of magnetometer.
- magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
- magnetosheath — the region between the magnetopause of the earth or of some other planet and the shock front caused by the solar wind.
- magnetosphere — the outer region of the earth's ionosphere, where the earth's magnetic field controls the motion of charged particles, as in the Van Allen belts. Compare magnetopause.
- magnetostatic — Of or pertaining to magnetostatics.
- magnitudinous — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
- malabsorbtion — Misspelling of malabsorption.
- malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
- malacostracan — belonging or pertaining to the crustacean subclass Malacostraca, which includes the lobsters, shrimps, crabs, etc.
- maladroitness — lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.
- malformations — Plural form of malformation.
- mandatoriness — The quality or state of being mandatory.
- manifestation — an act of manifesting.
- manipulations — Plural form of manipulation.
- manon lescaut — a novel (1731) by Antoine François Prévost.
- 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.
- marginal cost — the cost of one additional unit of any item produced or bought in quantity.
- marketisation — Alternative spelling of marketization.
- 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
- mechanisation — Alternative spelling of mechanization.
- medicamentous — of or relating to medicaments
- 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.
- mesmerization — to hypnotize.
- metafunctions — Plural form of metafunction.
- metallophones — Plural form of metallophone.
- metropolitans — Plural form of metropolitan.
- micronisation — The process by which a material is reduced in size, often to micrometer proportions.
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
- microtonalism — The use of microtones in music.
- ministrations — the act of ministering care, aid, religious service, etc.
- misallocating — Present participle of misallocate.
- misallocation — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
- misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
- misassumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- miscegenation — marriage or cohabitation between two people from different racial groups, especially, in the U.S., between a black person and a white person: In 1968 the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that state laws prohibiting miscegenation were unconstitutional.
- miscoordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- misevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.