13-letter words containing a, p, i, m, n
- married print — composite print.
- masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- maternity pay — the pay a woman receives from her work during her absence immediately before and after childbirth
- mean-spirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
- meeting place — A meeting place is a place where people meet.
- megalopolitan — of, relating to, or characteristic of a megalopolis.
- megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- mesencephalic — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- metanephridia — Plural form of metanephridium.
- metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- metropolitans — Plural form of metropolitan.
- mexican apple — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
- mexican poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
- miami springs — a town in SE Florida, near Miami.
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
- microperation — (processor) An elementary operation performed on data stored in registers or in memory. Microperations are classified as transfer, arithmetic, logic, or shift/rotate.
- microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- mimeographing — Present participle of mimeograph.
- mindanao deep — an area in the Pacific Ocean W of the Philippines: one of deepest points in any ocean. 34,440 feet (10,497 meters).
- mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
- mineral pitch — asphalt.
- minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
- mis-explained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
- misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
- misassumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- mise en place — (in a restaurant kitchen) the preparation of equipment and food before service begins
- mispersuasion — a false or mistaken persuasion
- misshapenness — Quality of being misshapen.
- mississippian — of or relating to the state of Mississippi or the Mississippi River.
- molding plane — a plane having a blade or a number of blades profiled to form moldings.
- monopotassium — (chemistry) monatomic potassium.
- monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
- montauk point — the SE end of Long Island, in SE New York.
- morning paper — a paper published the night before for distribution in the morning (as opposed to an evening paper)
- morphinomania — an addiction to morphine or opium in which the addict secretly injects the substance
- mountain pass — a low point on a mountain that allows easy access to climbers
- mountain pine — a European pine tree which grows on mountains
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- multipartisan — Relating to or supported by multiple groups, especially by multiple political parties.
- multiplatinum — Denoting or relating to a musical recording that has sold more than two million copies.
- multiplicands — Plural form of multiplicand.
- municipalized — Simple past tense and past participle of municipalize.
- mutation stop — an organ pipe sounding the harmonic of the note normally produced
- myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.