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13-letter words containing p, a, n

  • mexican poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
  • 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.
  • microperation — (processor)   An elementary operation performed on data stored in registers or in memory. Microperations are classified as transfer, arithmetic, logic, or shift/rotate.
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • milk saucepan — a type of small saucepan often used for heating milk
  • mimeographing — Present participle of mimeograph.
  • mindanao deep — an area in the Pacific Ocean W of the Philippines: one of deepest points in any ocean. 34,440 feet (10,497 meters).
  • 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.
  • modesty panel — a panel across the front of a desk, especially an office desk, designed to conceal the legs of a person seated at it.
  • molding plane — a plane having a blade or a number of blades profiled to form moldings.
  • monophosphate — a salt containing only one phosphate group.
  • monophthongal — (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a monophthong.
  • monopotassium — (chemistry) monatomic potassium.
  • monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
  • montauk point — the SE end of Long Island, in SE New York.
  • monterey park — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
  • 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
  • morpho-syntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
  • mount palomar — Mount, a mountain in S California, NE of San Diego: site of observatory. 6126 feet (1867 meters) high.
  • 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.
  • murder weapon — the weapon that was used in a murder
  • 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.
  • n'est-ce pas? — isn't that so?
  • 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.
  • nannoplankton — the smallest of the microplankton; the aquatic organisms that can pass through fine mesh plankton nets.
  • nanocomposite — Denoting a composite material that has a grain size measured in nanometers.
  • nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
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