13-letter words containing p, a, r, m
- 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
- megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
- 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.
- 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.
- metanephridia — Plural form of metanephridium.
- metaphoricity — The power of a metaphor.
- methylparaben — a fine, white, needlelike substance, C 8 H 8 O 3 , used chiefly as a preservative in foods and pharmaceuticals.
- methylpropane — (organic compound) isobutane.
- 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.
- microcapsules — Plural form of microcapsule.
- microcephalia — Microcephaly.
- microcephalic — having a head with a small braincase.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microchip art — (hardware) (chip art, chip graffiti) Images etched on integrated circuits purely for decoration, visible only under a microscope.
- micrographics — the technique of photographing written or printed pages in reduced form to produce microfilm or microfiche.
- microparasite — a parasitic microorganism.
- microparticle — An extremely small particle.
- 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.
- microprograms — Plural form of microprogram.
- microscopical — so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: microscopic organisms. Compare macroscopic.