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