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13-letter words containing a, s, p, o

  • mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
  • misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
  • misassumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • mispersuasion — a false or mistaken persuasion
  • moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
  • modesty panel — a panel across the front of a desk, especially an office desk, designed to conceal the legs of a person seated at it.
  • monophosphate — a salt containing only one phosphate group.
  • monopotassium — (chemistry) monatomic potassium.
  • monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
  • moose pasture — land considered to be worthless, esp when lacking in extractable mineral deposits
  • moral compass — an internalized set of values and objectives that guide a person with regard to ethical behavior and decision-making: a rebellious teenager without a moral compass.
  • moral support — emotional assistance, encouragement
  • morpho-syntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
  • mountain pass — a low point on a mountain that allows easy access to climbers
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • moustache cup — mustache cup.
  • multihospital — comprising or relating to several hospitals
  • musculospiral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; applied especially to a large nerve of the arm.
  • musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
  • mutation stop — an organ pipe sounding the harmonic of the note normally produced
  • mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
  • mycoplasmosis — a disease in animals and humans caused by mycoplasma
  • myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
  • mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
  • nanocomposite — Denoting a composite material that has a grain size measured in nanometers.
  • nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
  • naples yellow — a yellow pigment, used by artists; lead antimonate
  • narcohypnosis — the use of drugs to induce hypnosis
  • nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
  • natural slope — the maximum angle at which soil will lie in a bank without slipping
  • necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
  • neo-platonism — a philosophical system which was first developed in the 3rd century ad as a synthesis of Platonic, Pythagorean, and Aristotelian elements, and which, although originally opposed to Christianity, later incorporated it. It dominated European thought until the 13th century and re-emerged during the Renaissance
  • neocapitalism — a politico-economic theory combining elements of capitalism and socialism
  • neocapitalist — a person who advocates neocapitalism
  • neoplasticism — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
  • nephropathies — Plural form of nephropathy.
  • newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
  • noise shaping — (communications)   Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
  • non-episcopal — of or relating to a bishop: episcopal authority.
  • non-opposable — capable of being placed opposite to something else: the opposable thumb of primates.
  • non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • non-spillable — to cause or allow to run or fall from a container, especially accidentally or wastefully: to spill a bag of marbles; to spill milk.
  • nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
  • nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
  • noncapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • nondiapausing — lacking a diapause
  • nondisposable — Not disposable.
  • nonpassionate — Not passionate.
  • nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • nonpractising — of or relating to a person who no longer observes or pursues his or her religious faith
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