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13-letter words containing p, a, i, n

  • mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
  • mineral pitch — asphalt.
  • minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
  • mis-explained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
  • 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.
  • mise en place — (in a restaurant kitchen) the preparation of equipment and food before service begins
  • mispersuasion — a false or mistaken persuasion
  • misshapenness — Quality of being misshapen.
  • mississippian — of or relating to the state of Mississippi or the Mississippi River.
  • molding plane — a plane having a blade or a number of blades profiled to form moldings.
  • monopotassium — (chemistry) monatomic potassium.
  • monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
  • montauk point — the SE end of Long Island, in SE New York.
  • morning paper — a paper published the night before for distribution in the morning (as opposed to an evening paper)
  • morphinomania — an addiction to morphine or opium in which the addict secretly injects the substance
  • mountain pass — a low point on a mountain that allows easy access to climbers
  • mountain pine — a European pine tree which grows on mountains
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • multipartisan — Relating to or supported by multiple groups, especially by multiple political parties.
  • multiplatinum — Denoting or relating to a musical recording that has sold more than two million copies.
  • multiplicands — Plural form of multiplicand.
  • municipalized — Simple past tense and past participle of municipalize.
  • mutation stop — an organ pipe sounding the harmonic of the note normally produced
  • myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
  • nail clippers — tool for cutting finger- and toenails
  • nailing strip — a strip of wood or other partly yielding material attached to a hard surface, as of steel or concrete, so that objects may be nailed to the surface.
  • name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
  • nanocomposite — Denoting a composite material that has a grain size measured in nanometers.
  • nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
  • naphthylamine — (organic compound) Either of two isomeric primary amines derived from naphthalene; they occur in crude oil, and are used in the preparation of dyes and other compounds.
  • narcohypnosis — the use of drugs to induce hypnosis
  • national park — an area of scenic beauty, historical importance, or the like, owned and maintained by a national government for the use of the people.
  • nativity play — A nativity play is a play about the birth of Jesus, usually one performed by children at Christmas time.
  • necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
  • necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
  • negative pole — the south-seeking pole of a magnet
  • neo-platonism — a philosophical system which was first developed in the 3rd century ad as a synthesis of Platonic, Pythagorean, and Aristotelian elements, and which, although originally opposed to Christianity, later incorporated it. It dominated European thought until the 13th century and re-emerged during the Renaissance
  • neocapitalism — a politico-economic theory combining elements of capitalism and socialism
  • neocapitalist — a person who advocates neocapitalism
  • neoplasticism — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
  • nephrological — of or relating to nephrology
  • nephropathies — Plural form of nephropathy.
  • neuroatypical — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
  • new hampshire — a state in the NE United States. 9304 sq. mi. (24,100 sq. km). Capital: Concord. Abbreviation: NH (for use with zip code), N.H.
  • nickel-plated — covered with a thin layer of nickel, deposited usually by electrolysis
  • nitroparaffin — any of a class of compounds derived from the methane series in which a hydrogen atom is replaced by a nitro group.
  • noise shaping — (communications)   Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
  • nominal group — A nominal group is the same as a noun group.
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