13-letter words containing s, p, o, n, r
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- 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.
- minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- 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.”.
- misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
- 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.
- misproportion — comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
- 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.
- monostrophics — monostrophic verses
- monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
- morpho-syntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
- morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
- nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
- narcohypnosis — the use of drugs to induce hypnosis
- nasopharynges — Plural form of nasopharynx.
- natural slope — the maximum angle at which soil will lie in a bank without slipping
- necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
- nephelometers — Plural form of nephelometer.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.
- nephropathies — Plural form of nephropathy.
- neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
- neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
- newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
- nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
- nitroso group — the univalent group O=N–.
- non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- noncompulsory — Not compulsory.
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- nondispersive — not dispersive
- nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nonmembership — the fact or condition of being a nonmember
- nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonpermissive — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- nonpersistent — persisting, especially in spite of opposition, obstacles, discouragement, etc.; persevering: a most annoyingly persistent young man.