13-letter words containing r, o, m, i, e
- mine detector — an electromagnetic device for locating buried or concealed land mines.
- mineralogical — Relating to mineralogy.
- minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- minimum order — A minimum order is the smallest amount or number that may be ordered in one delivery, usually to spread delivery costs over an economical number of units.
- minor element — Geology. any chemical element found in small quantities in the rocks of the earth's crust. Compare major element.
- 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.
- minor-leaguer — a member of a minor-league team.
- minstrel show — a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor. Developed in the U.S. in the 19th century, this entertainment portrayed negative racial stereotypes and declined in popularity in the 20th century.
- miscategorize — to arrange in categories or classes; classify.
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
- misconjecture — the formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence for proof.
- miscoordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- miscorrection — a wrong correction
- misdemeanours — Plural form of misdemeanour.
- misery memoir — A misery memoir is a book that someone has written about their own life in which they describe many sad things that happened when they were a child.
- misgovernance — to govern or manage badly.
- misgovernment — to govern or manage badly.
- misimpression — a faulty or incorrect impression; a misconception or misapprehension.
- misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
- 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.
- misrecognized — Simple past tense and past participle of misrecognize.
- misrecognizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misrecognize.
- 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
- misunderstood — improperly understood or interpreted.
- mobile number — a set of figures identifying the mobile telephone of a particular subscriber, and used in making connections to that telephone
- mobile triton — (processor) (Official name 82430MX) A version of Intel's Triton I processor chip set intended for mobile computers. Mobile Triton consists of one 82437MX and two 82438MX.
- model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
- moderationist — a person who favors, supports, or promotes moderation.
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- modernisation — Alternative spelling of modernization.
- modernization — to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize one's ideas; to modernize a kitchen.
- moebius strip — Möbius strip
- mohr's circle — a graphical construction enabling the stresses in the cross-section of a body to be determined if the principal stresses are known
- mole fraction — the ratio of the number of moles of a given component of a mixture to the total number of moles of all the components.
- molly maguire — Irish History. a member of a secret terrorist society organized in Ireland in 1843 to prevent evictions by the government: so called because the members disguised themselves as women.
- molly pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
- momentariness — The property of being momentary.
- monetary unit — the standard unit of value of the currency of a country, as the dollar in the U.S. and the franc in France.
- money-spinner — If you say that something is a money-spinner, you mean that it earns a lot of money for someone.
- moneygrubbing — Alternative spelling of money-grubbing.
- 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.
- monkey bridge — flying bridge.
- monkey orchid — a European orchid, Orchis simia, rare in Britain, having a short dense flower spike that opens from the top downwards. The flowers are white streaked with pink or violet and have five spurs thought to resemble a monkey's arms, legs, and tail