13-letter words containing c, o, r, p
- mastigophoric — Carrying or wielding a whip.
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
- melbourne cup — an annual horse race run in Melbourne, since 1861
- mesi protocol — (processor) Modified, Exclusive, Shared, Invalid. A cache coherency protocol where each cache line is marked with one of the four states. The MESI protocol is used by the Pentium processor.
- metamorphotic — Of or relating to metamorphosis.
- metaphoricity — The power of a metaphor.
- microcapsules — Plural form of microcapsule.
- microcephalia — Microcephaly.
- microcephalic — having a head with a small braincase.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microchip art — (hardware) (chip art, chip graffiti) Images etched on integrated circuits purely for decoration, visible only under a microscope.
- microchipping — Present participle of microchip.
- microcomputer — a compact computer, with less capacity and capability than a minicomputer, consisting of a microprocessor and other components.
- microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
- micrographics — the technique of photographing written or printed pages in reduced form to produce microfilm or microfiche.
- microparasite — a parasitic microorganism.
- microparticle — An extremely small particle.
- 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.
- microphyllous — having microphylls
- micropipettes — Plural form of micropipette.
- microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
- micropolitics — The use of formal and informal power by individuals and groups to achieve their goals within organizations, as opposed to macropolitics.
- microporosity — the state of being microporous
- microprocesor — (spelling) It's spelled microprocessor.
- microprograms — Plural form of microprogram.
- micropuncture — the puncture of a cell, renal tubule, etc., by a laser beam or micropipette
- microscopical — so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: microscopic organisms. Compare macroscopic.
- military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
- milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- milos process — The MILOS process is a process that uses an additional riser in the FCC, which gives the refiner options to simultaneously maximize production of diesel and propylene.
- minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- misperception — to understand or perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- mispronounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispronounce.
- mission creep — the tendency for a task, esp a military operation, to become unintentionally wider in scope than its initial objectives
- mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
- molly pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
- monomorphemic — containing only one morpheme, as the words wait and gorilla.
- monostrophics — monostrophic verses
- 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.
- morphemically — By means of, or in terms, of morphemes.
- morphogenetic — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- morphological — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- morphometrics — a technique of taxonomic analysis using measurements of the form of organisms
- multi-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- 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