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13-letter words containing s, p, i, l, r

  • master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.
  • matripotestal — of or relating to the authority exercised by a mother or a mother's blood relatives.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • microphyllous — having microphylls
  • micropolitics — The use of formal and informal power by individuals and groups to achieve their goals within organizations, as opposed to macropolitics.
  • microscopical — so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: microscopic organisms. Compare macroscopic.
  • 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.
  • misappraisals — Plural form of misappraisal.
  • mulier puisne — the legitimate son of parents whose first son was illegitimate.
  • multipartisan — Relating to or supported by multiple groups, especially by multiple political parties.
  • multipartyism — a political system in which two or more political parties contest elections
  • 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.
  • musculospiral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; applied especially to a large nerve of the arm.
  • mussel shrimp — any of numerous tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a shrimplike body enclosed in a hinged bivalve shell.
  • myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
  • myrmecophiles — Plural form of myrmecophile.
  • nail clippers — tool for cutting finger- and toenails
  • nailing strip — a strip of wood or other partly yielding material attached to a hard surface, as of steel or concrete, so that objects may be nailed to the surface.
  • nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
  • necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
  • 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.
  • neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
  • non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
  • nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • omnipresently — In an omnipresent manner.
  • opprobriously — In an opprobrious manner.
  • oscillographs — Plural form of oscillograph.
  • oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
  • overappraisal — An appraisal that overvalues something.
  • painterliness — the quality of being painterly
  • palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
  • paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
  • 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.
  • papaprelatist — a supporter of papal prelates
  • paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
  • paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
  • parallelistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a parallelism.
  • parapophysial — of or relating to a parapophysis
  • parasexuality — parasexual behaviour
  • parasitically — of, relating to, or characteristic of parasites.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • parris island — a U.S. Marine Corps base, recruit depot, and training station in SE South Carolina, SW of Beaufort and S of Port Royal Island.
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