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13-letter words containing p, r, i, m, o

  • microchipping — Present participle of microchip.
  • microcomputer — a compact computer, with less capacity and capability than a minicomputer, consisting of a microprocessor and other components.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • microphyllous — having microphylls
  • micropipettes — Plural form of micropipette.
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • 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
  • microprocesor — (spelling)   It's spelled microprocessor.
  • microprograms — Plural form of microprogram.
  • micropuncture — the puncture of a cell, renal tubule, etc., by a laser beam or micropipette
  • microscopical — so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: microscopic organisms. Compare macroscopic.
  • military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • 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.
  • mimeographing — Present participle of mimeograph.
  • minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
  • minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
  • 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.”.
  • minor prophet — any of a group of Old Testament prophets, including Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.
  • misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
  • miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
  • misimpression — a faulty or incorrect impression; a misconception or misapprehension.
  • misperception — to understand or perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.
  • mispersuasion — a false or mistaken persuasion
  • mispronounced — Said wrongly.
  • mispronounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispronounce.
  • 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.
  • mission creep — the tendency for a task, esp a military operation, to become unintentionally wider in scope than its initial objectives
  • mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
  • moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
  • moebius strip — Möbius strip
  • molly pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
  • money-spinner — If you say that something is a money-spinner, you mean that it earns a lot of money for someone.
  • 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.
  • monomorphemic — containing only one morpheme, as the words wait and gorilla.
  • monostrophics — monostrophic verses
  • monoterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C10 skeleton.
  • monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
  • monte perdido — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
  • monterey pine — a pine tree, Pinus radiata, native to coastal California, having cones that open to germinate only in the heat of a forest fire, used for reforestation and as a timber tree.
  • morality play — an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
  • morning paper — a paper published the night before for distribution in the morning (as opposed to an evening paper)
  • morphemically — By means of, or in terms, of morphemes.
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