13-letter words containing m, r, p
- misimpression — a faulty or incorrect impression; a misconception or misapprehension.
- misinterprets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misinterpret.
- misperceiving — Present participle of misperceive.
- misperception — to understand or perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.
- mispersuasion — a false or mistaken persuasion
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- mispronounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispronounce.
- misproportion — comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
- misredemption — illegal or fraudulent traffic in consumer product coupons, including mail theft and counterfeiting.
- misrepresents — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misrepresent.
- 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
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- modula-prolog — Adds a Prolog layer to Modula-2. "Modula-Prolog: A Software Development Tool", C. Muller IEEE Software pp.39-45 (Nov 1986).
- moebius strip — Möbius strip
- molly pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
- money-spinner — If you say that something is a money-spinner, you mean that it earns a lot of money for someone.
- mongol empire — an empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, which reached its greatest territorial extent in the 13th century, encompassing the larger part of Asia and extending westward to the Dnieper River in eastern Europe.
- monomorphemic — containing only one morpheme, as the words wait and gorilla.
- monostrophics — monostrophic verses
- monoterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C10 skeleton.
- monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
- monte perdido — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
- monterey park — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- monterey pine — a pine tree, Pinus radiata, native to coastal California, having cones that open to germinate only in the heat of a forest fire, used for reforestation and as a timber tree.
- moose pasture — land considered to be worthless, esp when lacking in extractable mineral deposits
- 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.
- moral support — emotional assistance, encouragement
- morality play — an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
- morning paper — a paper published the night before for distribution in the morning (as opposed to an evening paper)
- morphemically — By means of, or in terms, of morphemes.
- morphinomania — an addiction to morphine or opium in which the addict secretly injects the substance
- morpho-syntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
- morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- morphogenetic — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- morphographer — a person who scientifically describes form
- 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
- morphophoneme — an abstract phonological unit representing corresponding phonemes in different allomorphs of one morpheme. In English the symbol F may be used to represent a morphophoneme occurring in two related allomorphs, as f in leaf, but v in the plural leaves.
- mother's help — a woman employed to help look after children and help the mother in other ways
- moto perpetuo — a fast instrumental passage made up of notes of equal length
- mount palomar — Mount, a mountain in S California, NE of San Diego: site of observatory. 6126 feet (1867 meters) high.
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- mulier puisne — the legitimate son of parents whose first son was illegitimate.
- multi-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- multiemployer — Of or pertaining to more than one employer.
- multiparticle — comprising or involving several particles
- multipartisan — Relating to or supported by multiple groups, especially by multiple political parties.
- multipartyism — a political system in which two or more political parties contest elections
- multiplatform — Compatible with or involving more than one type of computer or operating system.