13-letter words containing p, r, o, n, e
- melbourne cup — an annual horse race run in Melbourne, since 1861
- membranophone — any musical instrument, as a drum, in which the sound is produced by striking, rubbing, or blowing against a membrane stretched over a frame.
- merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- methylpropane — (organic compound) isobutane.
- methylpropene — (organic compound) IUPAC name for isobutylene.
- metropolitans — Plural form of metropolitan.
- mezzo soprano — a voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
- mezzo-soprano — a voice or voice part intermediate in compass between soprano and contralto.
- 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.
- micropuncture — the puncture of a cell, renal tubule, etc., by a laser beam or micropipette
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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 park — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- 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.
- morning paper — a paper published the night before for distribution in the morning (as opposed to an evening paper)
- morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- morphogenetic — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- morphophoneme — an abstract phonological unit representing corresponding phonemes in different allomorphs of one morpheme. In English the symbol F may be used to represent a morphophoneme occurring in two related allomorphs, as f in leaf, but v in the plural leaves.
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- murder weapon — the weapon that was used in a murder
- name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
- nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
- nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
- natural slope — the maximum angle at which soil will lie in a bank without slipping
- neck and crop — completely; entirely
- necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
- nephelometers — Plural form of nephelometer.
- nephelometric — Bacteriology. an apparatus containing a series of barium chloride standards used to determine the number of bacteria in a suspension.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- nephrectomize — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
- nephridiopore — The external opening of a nephridium.