12-letter words containing i, m, p, r, n
- melanotropin — MSH.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
- microcopying — the act of copying onto microfilm
- micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
- microphonics — (electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
- microphoning — Present participle of microphone.
- microphonism — a usually undesirable property of some electronic circuits or components in which mechanical vibrations of a component affect the signal being transmitted through the circuit.
- microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- microprinted — printed in microprint
- mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
- milman parry — Milman, 1902–35, U.S. classical scholar and philologist.
- mine-sweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
- minesweepers — Plural form of minesweeper.
- minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- minimal pair — a pair of words, as pin and bin, or bet and bed, differing only by one sound in the same position in each word, especially when such a pair is taken as evidence for the existence of a phonemic contrast between the two sounds.
- ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
- minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
- mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
- misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- misrepresent — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- monocropping — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- monodisperse — (of a colloid) Having particles of (approximately) the same size.
- monographing — Present participle of monograph.
- monomorphism — a one-to-one homomorphism.
- monopolizers — Plural form of monopolizer.
- monostrophic — consisting of stanzas or strophes all having the same metrical structure.
- monotriglyph — (in the Doric order) any intercolumniation having one whole triglyph.
- mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- multipresent — able to be present in several places simultaneously
- multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
- mycoproteins — Plural form of mycoprotein.
- myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
- n hemisphere — that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- nephrotomies — Plural form of nephrotomy.
- neurotropism — the quality of being neurotropic.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
- non-complier — a person, group, etc., that complies.
- nonempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- nonimportant — Not important.
- normal pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.