14-letter words containing s, p, e, r, m, i
- mauritius hemp — a tropical American plant, Furcraea foetida, having large, fleshy leaves, cultivated as a source of a hemplike fiber.
- meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
- megasporangium — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metamorphosise — (UK, nonstandard) To metamorphose.
- metamorphosize — (US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
- metaphosphoric — applied to an acid (HPO3) containing a molecule less of water than orthophosphoric acid
- metapragmatics — Language that characterizes or describes the pragmatic function of some speech.
- metrical psalm — a translation of one of the psalms into rhyming strict-metre verse usually sung as a hymn
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- microcomputers — Plural form of microcomputer.
- microparasites — Plural form of microparasite.
- microprocessor — an integrated computer circuit that performs all the functions of a CPU.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
- microsporocyte — one of the mother cells that produce four microspores by meiosis.
- middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
- mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.
- minor prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets
- misapprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of misapprehend.
- misappropriate — to put to a wrong use.
- misdescription — an incorrect or misleading description
- misimprovement — a flaw or shortcoming arising from an attempt to make better
- misinterpreted — Simple past tense and past participle of misinterpret.
- misperceptions — Plural form of misperception.
- misperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- misrepresented — Simple past tense and past participle of misrepresent.
- missing person — sb who has disappeared
- modern persian — the Persian language since the Middle Persian stage.
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- monodispersive — Monodisperse.
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- mother shipton — a day-flying noctuid moth, Callistege mi, mottled brown in colour and named from a fancied resemblance between its darker marking and a haggish profile
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multiple store — chain store.
- multiprocessor — parallel processing
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- oophorectomies — Plural form of oophorectomy.
- operationalism — the doctrine that the meaning of a scientific term, concept, or proposition consists of the operation or operations performed in defining or demonstrating it.
- optical isomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting optical isomerism.
- options market — a market in which options are traded
- overemphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
- overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
- overemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overemphasize.
- overoptimistic — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
- paedomorphosis — the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines
- parasitic male — a male animal that is much smaller than the female and is totally dependent on the female for its nutrition, such as the male of some species of deep-sea angler fish