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11-letter words containing m, a, p, r, o

  • mirror carp — a variety of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio, with reduced scales, giving a smooth shiny body surface
  • misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
  • monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
  • monographed — Simple past tense and past participle of monograph.
  • monographic — a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
  • monotherapy — (medicine) A therapy which is administered by itself.
  • moon pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the moon, believed to be caused by the reflection of moonlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
  • moore graph — A graph which achieves the Moore bound. These are complete graphs, polygon graphs (regular graphs of degree 2) and three others: (nodes, degree, diameter) = (10,3,2), (50,7,2) and the possible but undiscovered (3250,57,2).
  • mopani worm — an edible caterpillar that feeds on mopani leaves
  • mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
  • morphograph — A logical fragment of a word, such as prefix or suffix, used in teaching spelling.
  • morse taper — a taper that is one of a standard series used in the shank of tools to fit a matching taper in the mandrel of a machine tool
  • mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
  • moving part — a part in a machine that has power to move
  • multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
  • myelography — the production of myelograms.
  • myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
  • mythography — a written collection of myths.
  • namedropper — A person who name-drops.
  • naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
  • nematomorph — any member of the phylum Nematomorpha, having a threadlike body, comprising the horsehair worms.
  • nematophore — (within the coenosarc of certain colonial hydrozoans) a small specialized tentacle-like polyp having nematocysts
  • no-platform — to deny (a person) the opportunity to speak in a political debate or forum
  • nominal par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
  • nomographer — the art of or a treatise on drawing up laws.
  • nontemporal — not indicating time
  • normocapnia — (medicine) The presence of the normal amount of carbon dioxide in arterial blood.
  • northampton — a city in Northamptonshire, in central England.
  • oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.
  • obtemperate — (obsolete) To obey.
  • ommatophore — a tentacle or movable stalk bearing an eye, as in certain snails.
  • open market — an unrestricted competitive market in which any buyer and seller is free to participate.
  • ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
  • overpayment — to pay more than (an amount due): I received a credit after overpaying the bill.
  • overprogram — to program (something) with unnecessary details or instructions
  • paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
  • palindromic — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • palmer worm — the hairy black and white caterpillar of the goldtail moth
  • palolo worm — a polychaete worm, Eunice viridis, that lives in burrows among the coral reefs of several South Pacific islands, producing sperm or eggs in posterior segments that are cast off periodically in enormous numbers.
  • panicmonger — a person who spreads panic
  • panromantic — noting or relating to a person who is romantically attracted to people of all sexual orientations and gender identities: The singer came out as queer and panromantic at age 17.
  • paper money — currency in paper form, such as government and bank notes, as distinguished from metal currency.
  • papilliform — resembling a papilla.
  • paracetamol — painkilling drug
  • paralimnion — the region of a lake floor between the shoreline or water's edge and the zone of rooted vegetation
  • paramastoid — of or relating to the part of the skull next to the mastoid process
  • paramountcy — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
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