13-letter words containing n, s, p
- manipulatives — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- mansplanation — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
- mantis shrimp — any stomatopod crustacean having a pair of appendages modified for grasping prey and resembling those of a mantis.
- marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
- marshall plan — European Recovery Program.
- masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- mean-spirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- mesencephalic — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- mesencephalon — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- metallophones — Plural form of metallophone.
- metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metropolitans — Plural form of metropolitan.
- mezzo soprano — a voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
- mezzo-soprano — a voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
- miami springs — a town in SE Florida, near Miami.
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
- midi-pyrénées — a region of SW France: consists of N slopes of the Pyrenees in the south, a fertile lowland area in the west crossed by the River Garonne, and the edge of the Massif Central in the north and east
- milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
- mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
- minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- minor 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.”.
- mis-explained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- mis-shipments — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
- misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
- misassumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- misconception — an erroneous conception; mistaken notion.
- mise en place — (in a restaurant kitchen) the preparation of equipment and food before service begins
- misemployment — Wrong or mistaken employment.
- 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
- mispositioned — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- 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.
- misshapenness — Quality of being misshapen.
- mission creep — the tendency for a task, esp a military operation, to become unintentionally wider in scope than its initial objectives
- mississippian — of or relating to the state of Mississippi or the Mississippi River.