13-letter words containing m, i, s, r, e, c
- monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
- monochlorides — Plural form of monochloride.
- monosymmetric — zygomorphic.
- mooring screw — a broad, augerlike anchor used for securing buoys in soft-bottomed lakes, rivers, etc.
- morphometrics — a technique of taxonomic analysis using measurements of the form of organisms
- morris dancer — A morris dancer is a person who takes part in morris dancing.
- mortise block — a block having a shell cut from a single piece of wood.
- motorbicycles — Plural form of motorbicycle.
- movie actress — a female who acts in films or movies
- multipresence — the quality or state of being multipresent
- multisectoral — Involving multiple sectors.
- multispectral — (of an airborne camera or scanner) capable of sensing and recording radiation from invisible as well as visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- music theatre — a modern musical-dramatic work that is performed on a smaller scale than, and without the conventions of, traditional opera
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- myrmecophiles — Plural form of myrmecophile.
- nanochemistry — (chemistry) The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- new criticism — (often initial capital letters) an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.
- nutrigenomics — the study of how individual genetic makeup interacts with diet, especially the effects of this interaction on a person's health.
- orchiectomies — Plural form of orchiectomy.
- oscillometric — an instrument for measuring oscillations, especially those of the arterial pulse.
- ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- perspectivism — the doctrine that reality is known only in terms of the perspectives of it seen by individuals or groups at particular moments.
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
- protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
- recompression — the act or process of compressing something again
- reconsignment — a consigning again.
- reminiscently — awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually followed by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
- republicanism — republican government.
- respirometric — of or relating to respirometers or respirometry
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- saccharimeter — an optical instrument for determining the strength of sugar solutions by measuring the rotation of the plane of polarized light they produce.
- saccharimetry — the process of measuring the amount of sugar in a sample, as with a saccharimeter or by polarimetry.
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- saint maurice — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing S and SE to the St. Lawrence River at Three Rivers: lower course in valley called La Mauricie. 325 miles (523 km) long.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade