13-letter words containing s, t, r, o, m
- ornamentalism — the desire or tendency to feature ornament in the design of buildings, interiors, furnishings, etc.
- ornamentalist — A person who ornaments.
- oscillometric — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- osmoregulator — Any organism that practices osmoregulation.
- outdoorswoman — a woman devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities.
- outdoorswomen — Plural form of outdoorswoman.
- outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
- ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.
- over-estimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- overcast seam — a hem with long stitches passing successively over the edge
- overdramatise — Alternative spelling of overdramatize.
- overestimated — Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
- overestimates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overestimate.
- overstatement — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
- overstimulate — to stimulate too much
- 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.
- pathomorphism — abnormal morphology.
- perfect storm — a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
- photochromism — the reversible transformation of something's colour due to exposure to electromagnetic radiation such as sunlight
- photocomposer — a machine for setting type photographically.
- pistol shrimp — any common shrimp of the family Alphaeidae, distinguished by the snapping sound made by its enlarged claw.
- plagiotropism — plagiotropic tendency or growth.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- pommes frites — French fries
- portal system — a vascular arrangement in which blood from the capillaries of one organ is transported to the capillaries of another organ by a connecting vein or veins.
- post meridiem — p.m.
- post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
- post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- postemergence — occurring or applied after emergence of a plant from the soil and before full growth: postemergence frost.
- postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- 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
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
- potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
- praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- premonishment — a forewarning