13-letter words containing y, i, t
- meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
- meritoriously — deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service.
- mesaticephaly — the state or condition of being mesaticephalic or mesocephalic
- mesityl oxide — an oily, colorless liquid, C 6 H 1 0 O, having a honeylike odor: used chiefly as a solvent and in the manufacture of synthetic organic compounds.
- meta-analysis — a research study that combines and analyzes statistics gathered from multiple independent studies
- metabolically — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
- metamerically — In a metameric manner.
- metaphoricity — The power of a metaphor.
- metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metaphysicist — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metaphysicize — to think, write, etc, metaphysically
- metastability — An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
- methyl violet — gentian violet
- metonic cycle — a cycle of 235 synodic months, very nearly equal to 19 years, after which the new moon occurs on the same day of the year as at the beginning of the cycle with perhaps a shift of one day, depending on the number of leap years in the cycle.
- metonymically — In a metonymic fashion; using metonymy.
- metric martyr — a shopkeeper or trader willing to be prosecuted for continuing to use only imperial measures as a protest against the perceived imposition of metric measures by the European Union
- metric system — a decimal system of weights and measures, adopted first in France but now widespread, universally used in science, mandatory for use for all purposes in a large number of countries, and favored for use in most (as in the U.S.). The basic units are the meter (39.37 inches) for length and the gram (15.432 grains) for mass or weight. Derived units are the liter (0.908 U.S. dry quart, or 1.0567 U.S. liquid quart) for capacity, being the volume of 1000 grams of water under specified conditions; the are (119.6 square yards) for area, being the area of a square 10 meters on a side; and the stere (35.315 cubic feet) for volume, being the volume of a cube 1 meter on a side, the term “stere,” however, usually being used only in measuring firewood. Names for units larger and smaller than these are formed from the above names by the use of the following prefixes: kilo-, 1000; hecto-, 100; deka-, 10; deci-, 0.1; centi-, 0.01; milli-, 0.001. To these are often added: tera-, one trillion; giga-, one billion; mega-, one million. With the addition of basic physical units it is now officially known by the French name Le Système International d'Unités (abbreviation SI, ) or in English as the International System of Units.
- michigan city — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan.
- microcrystals — Plural form of microcrystal.
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
- microporosity — the state of being microporous
- microtonality — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- military band — a musical band, usually made up of players of wind, percussion and some brass instruments, that play at military functions, etc
- military base — a facility for the storage of military equipment and the training of soldiers
- military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
- military pace — a pace, equal to a single step, used to coordinate the marching of soldiers, equal in the U.S. to 2½ feet (76 cm) for quick time and 3 feet (91 cm) for double time.
- military time — 24-hour clock
- milton keynes — a residential district in S England, near London, established in the 1960s.
- ministerially — In the character or capacity of a minister.
- minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
- misemployment — Wrong or mistaken employment.
- missouri city — a city in SE Texas.
- mistrustfully — In a mistrustful manner.
- mistrustingly — In a mistrusting manner.
- mixed ability — A mixed ability class or teaching system is one in which pupils of different abilities are taught together in the same class.
- mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
- modifiability — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- molly pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
- monetary unit — the standard unit of value of the currency of a country, as the dollar in the U.S. and the franc in France.
- monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
- monkey's fist — a ball-like knot used as an ornament or as a throwing weight at the end of a line.
- monoclonality — Biology, Biotechnology. the state or condition of having one specific type of antibody.
- 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.
- monosymmetric — zygomorphic.
- monotonically — of, relating to, or uttered in a monotone: a monotonic delivery of a lecture.
- 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.
- monumentality — resembling a monument; massive or imposing.
- moral victory — greater honour despite losing
- morality play — an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
- motorbicycles — Plural form of motorbicycle.