13-letter words containing t, h, o, r
- molly pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
- monmouthshire — a historic county in E Wales, now part of Gwent, Mid Glamorgan, and South Glamorgan.
- monochromated — Fitted with a monochromator.
- monochromatic — of or having one color.
- monochromator — a spectroscope with a slit that can be moved across the spectrum for viewing individual spectral bands.
- monostrophics — monostrophic verses
- monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
- morning watch — the watch from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.
- morpho-syntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
- morphogenetic — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- morphometrics — a technique of taxonomic analysis using measurements of the form of organisms
- moshe shertok — Moshe [moh-shuh] /ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), Sharett, Moshe.
- mother abbess — the female head of a religious house of nuns
- mother church — a church from which other churches have had their origin or derived their authority.
- mother figure — a woman embodying or seeming to embody the qualities of an idealized conception of the female parent, eliciting from others the emotional responses that a child typically has toward its mother.
- mother liquor — the portion of a solution remaining after crystallization of its important component.
- mother nature — a personification of the forces of nature as a controlling and regulating maternal being, sometimes creative and caring.
- mother of all — a female parent.
- mother of god — a title of the Virgin Mary.
- mother teresa — Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- mother tongue — the language first learned by a person; native language.
- mother's help — a woman employed to help look after children and help the mother in other ways
- mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- motor vehicle — an automobile, truck, bus, or similar motor-driven conveyance.
- mount markham — a mountain in Antarctica, in Victoria Land. Height: 4350 m (14 272 ft)
- mouthbreather — a person who breathes through the mouth instead of through the nose
- mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- movie theater — a motion-picture theater.
- mushroom town — a town that has grown very quickly
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- musquash root — spotted cowbane.
- mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
- nanochemistry — (chemistry) The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale.
- nanofortnight — (jargon) (Adelaide University) 10^-9 fortnights or about 1.2 milliseconds. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals. See microfortnight, attoparsec, and micro-.
- neo-orthodoxy — a movement in Protestant theology, beginning after World War I, stressing the absolute sovereignty of God and chiefly characterized by a reaction against liberal theology and a reaffirmation of certain doctrines of the Reformation.
- nephelometers — Plural form of nephelometer.
- nephelometric — Bacteriology. an apparatus containing a series of barium chloride standards used to determine the number of bacteria in a suspension.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- nephrectomize — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
- nephropathies — Plural form of nephropathy.
- neuroethology — the study of the role of the nervous system in animal behaviour
- newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
- night journey — the journey in which Muhammad was carried from Mecca to Jerusalem and ascended into heaven.
- night terrors — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- night-terrors — a sudden feeling of extreme fear that awakens a sleeping person, usually during slow-wave sleep, and is not associated with a dream or nightmare.
- ninety-fourth — next after the ninety-third; being the ordinal number for 94.
- nitrous ether — ethyl nitrite.
- no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.