13-letter words containing m, i, s, f, o, r
- 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.
- microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
- microsoft iis — Internet Information Server
- mirror finish — a smooth highly polished surface produced on metal by mechanical or electrolytic polishing or lapping
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- myelofibrosis — the replacement of bone marrow by fibrous tissue, characteristic of leukemia and certain other diseases.
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- nonconformism — The refusal to conform to common standards, conventions, rules, traditions or laws.
- nonconformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- pommes frites — French fries
- ramifications — the act or process of ramifying.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- scalariformly — in a scalariform or ladder-like manner
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- scimitar foot — any short leg or foot, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an arc tangent to the floor plane.
- scout uniform — the uniform worn by the Scouts
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
- staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
- storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
- strombuliform — in the shape of a coil
- sugar of milk — lactose.
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- to stand firm — If someone stands firm, they refuse to change their mind about something.
- umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
- words fail me — I am too happy, sad, amazed, etc, to express my thoughts