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13-letter words containing m, r, p

  • maculopapular — (medicine, of a rash) Consisting of a flat, red area on the skin that is covered with small confluent bumps, as in scarlet fever and measles.
  • madeira topaz — citrine (def 2).
  • magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
  • magnetosphere — the outer region of the earth's ionosphere, where the earth's magnetic field controls the motion of charged particles, as in the Van Allen belts. Compare magnetopause.
  • mahabalipuram — a village in NE Tamil Nadu, in SE India: Hindu temples; early Dravidian architecture.
  • mail exploder — (messaging)   Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
  • mainz psalter — a book printed by Johannes Gutenberg: thought by some to be the first book printed from movable type.
  • major penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player for five minutes from play, no substitute for the player being permitted.
  • major premise — Logic. an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”.
  • major prophet — any of a group of Old Testament prophets, including Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.
  • make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
  • malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
  • malapropistic — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
  • malonyl group — the bivalent group C 3 H 2 O 2 , derived from malonic acid.
  • mantis shrimp — any stomatopod crustacean having a pair of appendages modified for grasping prey and resembling those of a mantis.
  • map reference — information that identifies the point on a map where a particular place is located
  • mar del plata — a city in E Argentina: seaside resort.
  • mariposa lily — any lily of the genus Calochortus, of the western U.S. and Mexico, having tuliplike flowers of various colors.
  • maritime alps — a range of the W Alps in SE France and NW Italy. Highest peak: Argentera, 3297 m (10 817 ft)
  • maritime pine — cluster pine.
  • marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
  • married print — composite print.
  • marshall plan — European Recovery Program.
  • mass spectrum — a spectrum of charged particles, arranged in order of mass or mass-to-charge ratios.
  • master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.
  • mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
  • mastigophoric — Carrying or wielding a whip.
  • maternity pay — the pay a woman receives from her work during her absence immediately before and after childbirth
  • matripotestal — of or relating to the authority exercised by a mother or a mother's blood relatives.
  • matthew paris — Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
  • mean-spirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
  • measure up to — to fulfil (expectations, standards, etc)
  • measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
  • meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
  • medium-priced — having a price that is neither too high or too low
  • megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
  • megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
  • melbourne cup — an annual horse race run in Melbourne, since 1861
  • membranophone — any musical instrument, as a drum, in which the sound is produced by striking, rubbing, or blowing against a membrane stretched over a frame.
  • memorial park — cemetery.
  • mephobarbital — The drug methylphenobarbital.
  • merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
  • merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
  • mesi protocol — (processor)   Modified, Exclusive, Shared, Invalid. A cache coherency protocol where each cache line is marked with one of the four states. The MESI protocol is used by the Pentium processor.
  • mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
  • metallography — the study of the structure of metals and alloys by means of microscopy.
  • metamorphosed — to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • metamorphoses — a series of mythological tales or legends in verse (a.d. 7–8) by Ovid.
  • metamorphosis — Biology. a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the adult butterfly. Compare complete metamorphosis.
  • metamorphotic — Of or relating to metamorphosis.
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