13-letter words containing oa
- mountainboard — a type of skateboard specially designed for rough terrain and steep slopes, having four large wheels linked by a suspension system
- muscle shoals — former rapids of the Tennessee River in SW Alabama, changed into a lake by Wilson Dam: part of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- muzzle-loader — a firearm that is loaded through the muzzle.
- muzzleloaders — Plural form of muzzleloader.
- muzzleloading — Of a gun, having ammunition loaded from the front of the barrel where it will exit.
- myeloablative — Of, pertaining to, or causing myeloablation.
- narcoanalysis — a method of psychological investigation in which the conscious or unconscious unwillingness of a subject to express memories or feelings is diminished by the use of a barbiturate drug.
- neuroanatomic — the branch of anatomy dealing with the nervous system.
- neuroatypical — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
- nothing loath — willing
- oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- oak-apple day — (in Britain) May 29, the anniversary of the Restoration (1660), formerly commemorated by the wearing of oak apples or oak leaves, recalling the Boscobel oak in which Charles II hid after the battle of Worcester
- organoarsenic — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to arsenic bond.
- over-the-road — of, for, or pertaining to transportation on public highways: over-the-road trucks.
- pallet loader — A device employing a vertical lift platform for the mechanical loading or unloading of pallets of freight
- particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
- personal loan — a loan of money for personal use
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- photoallergic — photosensitive.
- pipiwharauroa — a Pacific migratory bird with a metallic green-gold plumage
- pleasure boat — recreational vessel
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- protoactinium — protactinium.
- pseudoaquatic — not aquatic but indigenous to moist regions.
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- radioactinium — the radioactive isotope of thorium having a mass number 227 and a half-life of 18.8 days. Symbol: RdAc, Th 227.
- radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
- radioactivity — the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.
- railroad flat — an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line.
- railroad line — railway route
- railroad worm — the larva of a fruit fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, that burrows through apples, forming tunnels that sometimes appear on the skin as faint depressions or darkened trails: a serious pest of apples in colder regions of North America.
- repeater loan — a loan lent to someone who has already borrowed
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- road accident — a traffic accident involving vehicles, pedestrians or cyclists
- road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
- road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
- roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.
- roasting jack — a rotating spit for roasting meat on
- rock the boat — to move or sway to and fro or from side to side.
- rollercoaster — a small gravity railroad, especially in an amusement park, having a train with open cars that moves along a high, sharply winding trestle built with steep inclines that produce sudden, speedy plunges for thrill-seeking passengers.
- running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- self-loathing — strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- sloane ranger — a member of a trendy and acquisitive set of largely upper-middle-class young people of London, England.