13-letter words containing oa
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- free on board — law: delivered by ship free of charge to buyer
- free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
- front-loading — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
- full-throated — A full-throated sound coming from someone's mouth, such as a shout or a laugh, is very loud.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- get a load of — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- go over-board — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
- goal-oriented — (of a person) focused on reaching a specific objective or accomplishing a given task; driven by purpose: goal-oriented teams of teachers.
- goat antelope — any of several wild goats with antelopelike features, including the chamois, goral, serow, and Rocky Mountain goat.
- goat's cheese — cheese made from goat's milk
- hackney coach — hackney (def 1).
- hampton roads — a channel in SE Virginia between the mouth of the James River and Chesapeake Bay: battle between the Monitor and the Virginia 1862.
- heli-boarding — the sport of snowboarding on mountains or glaciers accessible only by helicopter or skiplane
- hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
- hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
- hypnoanalysis — a method of psychoanalysis in which a patient is put into hypnosis in an attempt to secure analytic data, free associations, and early emotional reactions.
- inboard motor — a boat's motor that is situated within the hull
- ironing board — a flat, cloth-covered board or other surface, often foldable and having legs, on which clothing, linens, or similar articles are ironed.
- isoagglutinin — an agglutinin that can effect isoagglutination.
- isoalloxazine — a yellow solid that is the heterocyclic compound of the flavins. Formula: C10H6N4O2
- isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
- jerusalem oak — feather geranium.
- jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
- john o'groats — the northern tip of Scotland, near Duncansby Head, NE Caithness, traditionally thought of as the northernmost point of Britain: from Land's End to John o'Groat's House.
- joseph's coat — an ornamental species of pigweed (Amaranthus tricolor) having red, yellow, and green upper leaves
- joseph's-coat — a cultivated form of Amaranthus tricolor, having headlike clusters of small flowers and blotched and colored leaves.
- load shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- load the dice — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- load-shedding — the deliberate shutdown of electric power in a part or parts of a power-distribution system, generally to prevent the failure of the entire system when the demand strains the capacity of the system.
- loan-sharking — the practice of lending money at exorbitant or illegal interest rates
- loan-to-value — the ratio between the sum of money lent in a mortgage agreement and the lender's valuation of the property involved
- loathsomeness — The property or nature that gives rise to revulsion, that inspires loathing.
- mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
- mackinaw coat — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
- malabar coast — a region along the entire SW coast of India, extending from the Arabian Sea inland to the Western Ghats.
- matchboarding — a construction of matchboards.
- medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
- message board — bulletin board system
- metallic soap — any usually water-insoluble salt formed by the interaction of a fatty acid and a metal, especially lead or aluminum: used chiefly as a drier in paints and varnishes and for waterproofing textiles.
- microanalyses — Plural form of microanalysis.
- microanalysis — Chemistry. the analysis of very small samples of substances.
- microaneurysm — An extremely small aneurysm.
- miss the boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- moabite stone — a slab of black basalt bearing an inscription recording the victory of Mesha, the king of Moab, over the Israelites, about 860 b.c.
- molding board — a board upon which bread is kneaded, cookies prepared, etc.
- monoaminergic — (of a neuron or neural pathway) transmitting messages by means of a monoamine
- mosquito boat — PT boat.
- mountain goat — any wild goat inhabiting mountainous regions