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15-letter words containing p, e, a, t, m

  • magnetic stripe — magnetic strip.
  • magnetoreceptor — The part of an organism responsible for magnetoreception.
  • make a pit stop — to visit a restroom
  • make a point of — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • make capital of — to get advantage from
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
  • malappropriated — misused or mishandled
  • male prostitute — man who has sex for money
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
  • malpresentation — Abnormal positioning of a fetus at the time of delivery.
  • manual alphabet — a set of finger configurations corresponding to the letters of the alphabet, used by the deaf in fingerspelling.
  • marital therapy — a psychotherapeutic treatment for married couples, who are seen by a therapist both individually and jointly to assist them in resolving various problems related to their marriage.
  • mashed potatoes — potatoes that have been boiled and then crushed into a soft pulpy mass
  • massed practice — learning with no intervals or short intervals between successive bouts of learning
  • master corporal — a noncommissioned officer in the Canadian forces senior to a corporal and junior to a sergeant
  • master-planning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
  • mastoid process — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
  • matrix compiler — Early matrix computations on UNIVAC. Sammet 1969, p.642.
  • mechanoreceptor — any of the sense organs that respond to vibration, stretching, pressure, or other mechanical stimuli.
  • mediastinoscopy — (medicine) A procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope. This is a surgical procedure normally done under general anesthesia.
  • megacorporation — a giant company formed from two or more large companies or a number of companies of various sizes.
  • megagametophyte — the female gametophyte in seed plants.
  • memory capacity — (on a computer or other device) the amount of memory space available for data storage
  • mental handicap — learning disability
  • mental hospital — psychiatric institution
  • mephistophelean — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • mephistophelian — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • merchant prince — a very wealthy or influential merchant.
  • mess of pottage — a material gain involving the sacrifice of a higher value
  • metalloprotease — (enzyme) metalloproteinase.
  • metamorphically — In a metamorphic manner.
  • metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
  • metamorphosizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metamorphosize.
  • metanitrophenol — any compound derived from phenol by the replacement of one or more of its ring hydrogen atoms by the nitro group.
  • metaphase plate — a plane in the equatorial region of the spindle in dividing cells, along which the chromosomes become arranged during the metaphase.
  • methamphetamine — a central nervous system stimulant, C 1 0 H 1 5 N, used clinically in the treatment of narcolepsy, hyperkinesia, and for blood pressure maintenance in hypotensive states: also widely used as an illicit drug.
  • methylphenidate — a central nervous system stimulant, C 1 4 H 1 9 NO 2 , used in the control of hyperkinetic syndromes and narcolepsy.
  • methylpropanone — (organic compound) The industrial solvent butanone.
  • metropolitanate — the office or province of a metropolitan
  • metropolitanism — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • metropolitanize — to make metropolitan.
  • micropegmatitic — relating to, or designating, a microscopic pegmatitic structure
  • midgard serpent — a serpent, the child of Loki and Angerboda, who lies wrapped around the world, tail in mouth, and is destined to kill and to be killed by Thor at Ragnarok; Jormungand.
  • military police — soldiers who perform police duties
  • mineral spirits — a volatile distillation product of petroleum, used as a thinner for paints and varnishes. Compare naphtha (def 1).
  • misappreciation — failure to appreciate something fully or properly
  • misappreciative — not fully or properly appreciative
  • misappropriated — to put to a wrong use.
  • misappropriates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misappropriate.
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