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13-letter words containing p, r, e, i, m, l

  • matripotestal — of or relating to the authority exercised by a mother or a mother's blood relatives.
  • memorial park — cemetery.
  • mephobarbital — The drug methylphenobarbital.
  • 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.
  • metropolitans — Plural form of metropolitan.
  • microcapsules — Plural form of microcapsule.
  • microcephalia — Microcephaly.
  • microcephalic — having a head with a small braincase.
  • 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.
  • microparticle — An extremely small particle.
  • military pace — a pace, equal to a single step, used to coordinate the marching of soldiers, equal in the U.S. to 2½ feet (76 cm) for quick time and 3 feet (91 cm) for double time.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • molly pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
  • mongol empire — an empire founded in the 12th century by Genghis Khan, which reached its greatest territorial extent in the 13th century, encompassing the larger part of Asia and extending westward to the Dnieper River in eastern Europe.
  • morphemically — By means of, or in terms, of morphemes.
  • mulier puisne — the legitimate son of parents whose first son was illegitimate.
  • multiemployer — Of or pertaining to more than one employer.
  • multiparticle — comprising or involving several particles
  • multiple star — three or more stars lying close together in the celestial sphere and usually united in a single gravitational system.
  • multipresence — the quality or state of being multipresent
  • multispectral — (of an airborne camera or scanner) capable of sensing and recording radiation from invisible as well as visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • multitemporal — (music) Having multiple tempos.
  • mussel shrimp — any of numerous tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a shrimplike body enclosed in a hinged bivalve shell.
  • myrmecophiles — Plural form of myrmecophile.
  • nephelometric — Bacteriology. an apparatus containing a series of barium chloride standards used to determine the number of bacteria in a suspension.
  • nerve impulse — a progressive wave of electric and chemical activity along a nerve fiber that stimulates or inhibits the action of a muscle, gland, or other nerve cell.
  • non-empirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
  • norc compiler — Early system on NORC machine. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • normocephalic — Having a normal sized head; neither macrocephalic nor microcephalic; mesocephalic.
  • omnicorporeal — Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance.
  • omnipresently — In an omnipresent manner.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • paralipomenon — Chronicles.
  • parliamentary — of or relating to a parliament or any of its members.
  • parliamenting — parliamentary debating
  • particle beam — Physics. a concentrated stream of particles, as electrons, neutrons, or protons, generated for studying particle interactions, nuclear structure, crystal structure, etc.
  • paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
  • penthemimeral — (of a caesura) occurring after the first penthemimer of a poetic line, i.e. in the middle of the third foot
  • pepper family — the plant family Piperaceae, characterized by tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having simple leaves, dense spikes of very small flowers, and fleshy, berrylike fruit, and including peperomia and peppers of the genus Piper.
  • perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perilymphatic — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
  • peripheralism — the explanation of psychological events emphasizing peripheral human functions, as those of skeletal muscles or the sex organs, rather than cognition or other processes of the central nervous system.
  • persian melon — a round variety of muskmelon having a green, reticulate, unribbed rind and orange flesh.
  • petrochemical — a chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
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