13-letter words containing p, i, s, t, o, r
- macroparasite — (biology) Any parasite that is visible to the naked eye.
- malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
- malapropistic — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
- 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.
- matripotestal — of or relating to the authority exercised by a mother or a mother's blood relatives.
- mesi protocol — (processor) Modified, Exclusive, Shared, Invalid. A cache coherency protocol where each cache line is marked with one of the four states. The MESI protocol is used by the Pentium processor.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- 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.
- metropolitans — Plural form of metropolitan.
- microparasite — a parasitic microorganism.
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
- micropipettes — Plural form of micropipette.
- micropolitics — The use of formal and informal power by individuals and groups to achieve their goals within organizations, as opposed to macropolitics.
- microporosity — the state of being microporous
- milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
- misperception — to understand or perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.
- 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.
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- moebius strip — Möbius strip
- monostrophics — monostrophic verses
- monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
- morphometrics — a technique of taxonomic analysis using measurements of the form of organisms
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
- mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
- nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- nephropathies — Plural form of nephropathy.
- neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
- nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
- nitroso group — the univalent group O=N–.
- nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nonpersistent — persisting, especially in spite of opposition, obstacles, discouragement, etc.; persevering: a most annoyingly persistent young man.
- nonpractising — of or relating to a person who no longer observes or pursues his or her religious faith
- o-proposition — a particular negative proposition
- omnipresently — In an omnipresent manner.
- on the parish — receiving parochial relief
- oneiroscopist — a person who specialises in studying and interpreting dreams
- open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
- operativeness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.