13-letter words containing p, o, i, e, s
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- microfloppies — 3.5-inch floppies, as opposed to 5.25-inch vanilla or mini-floppies and the now-obsolete 8-inch variety. This term may be headed for obsolescence as 5.25-inchers pass out of use, only to be revived if anybody floats a sub-3-inch floppy standard. See stiffy, minifloppies.
- microparasite — a parasitic microorganism.
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
- micropipettes — Plural form of micropipette.
- microprocesor — (spelling) It's spelled microprocessor.
- milos process — The MILOS process is a process that uses an additional riser in the FCC, which gives the refiner options to simultaneously maximize production of diesel and propylene.
- mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
- minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- minor premise — Logic. an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”.
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- misconception — an erroneous conception; mistaken notion.
- misemployment — Wrong or mistaken employment.
- misimpression — a faulty or incorrect impression; a misconception or misapprehension.
- misperception — to understand or perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.
- mispersuasion — a false or mistaken persuasion
- mispositioned — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- mispronounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispronounce.
- misredemption — illegal or fraudulent traffic in consumer product coupons, including mail theft and counterfeiting.
- mission creep — the tendency for a task, esp a military operation, to become unintentionally wider in scope than its initial objectives
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- moebius strip — Möbius strip
- money-spinner — If you say that something is a money-spinner, you mean that it earns a lot of money for someone.
- moneyspinning — earning money or making a profit
- monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
- morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- morphometrics — a technique of taxonomic analysis using measurements of the form of organisms
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- multiple shop — chain store.
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- myrmecophiles — Plural form of myrmecophile.
- mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
- nanocomposite — Denoting a composite material that has a grain size measured in nanometers.
- nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
- necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
- needle biopsy — the removal of a small amount of tissue or cellular material with a long hollow surgical needle, performed for diagnostic purposes.
- 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.
- neopositivism — A resurgent positivism, or an updated version of it.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- nephropathies — Plural form of nephropathy.
- neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
- neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
- nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
- 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.
- non-composite — Nautical. noting a vessel having frames of one material and shells and decking of another, especially one having iron or steel frames with shells and decks planked.
- non-episcopal — of or relating to a bishop: episcopal authority.