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13-letter words containing t, o, n, i, p

  • lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
  • laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
  • latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
  • lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
  • lithontriptic — of or relating to destroying bladder or kidney stones
  • locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
  • lymphopoietin — (protein) A cytokine protein that has a function in T cell maturation.
  • magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
  • magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
  • make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
  • malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
  • maladaptation — incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation.
  • manipulations — Plural form of manipulation.
  • mansplanation — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
  • mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
  • megalopolitan — of, relating to, or characteristic of a megalopolis.
  • melting point — the temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses.
  • mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
  • metropolitans — Plural form of metropolitan.
  • micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
  • microperation — (processor)   An elementary operation performed on data stored in registers or in memory. Microperations are classified as transfer, arithmetic, logic, or shift/rotate.
  • microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
  • micropuncture — the puncture of a cell, renal tubule, etc., by a laser beam or micropipette
  • minicomponent — a hi-fi component considerably smaller than a standard-size component and larger than a microcomponent.
  • minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
  • minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
  • minor prophet — any of a group of Old Testament prophets, including Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.
  • misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
  • misassumption — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • misconception — an erroneous conception; mistaken notion.
  • misemployment — Wrong or mistaken employment.
  • misperception — to understand or perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.
  • mispositioned — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
  • 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.
  • monophysitism — (Christianity) A Christian belief which holds that the human nature of Jesus Christ was essentially absorbed by the divine, and thus that he essentially had but one nature, contrary to the orthodox view that Christ has two natures, both fully human and fully divine. A variant is apollonarianism, which has gnostic overtones and used hellenistic ideas alien to orthodox Christianity.
  • monopotassium — (chemistry) monatomic potassium.
  • monopsonistic — the market condition that exists when there is one buyer.
  • monostrophics — monostrophic verses
  • monoterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C10 skeleton.
  • monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
  • mont-de-piete — a public pawnbroking establishment that lends money on reasonable terms, especially to the poor.
  • montauk point — the SE end of Long Island, in SE New York.
  • monte perdido — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
  • monterey pine — a pine tree, Pinus radiata, native to coastal California, having cones that open to germinate only in the heat of a forest fire, used for reforestation and as a timber tree.
  • morphogenetic — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
  • mountain pass — a low point on a mountain that allows easy access to climbers
  • mountain pine — a European pine tree which grows on mountains
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