11-letter words containing a, m, p, c, o
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- proclaimant — someone who proclaims
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- project mac — (project) A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- pump-action — (of a shotgun or rifle) having an action that extracts the empty case, loads, and cocks the piece by means of a hand-operated lever that slides backward and forward; slide-action.
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- roman peace — the establishment and maintenance of peace by armed force.
- roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
- scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
- scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- sky compass — a device for taking a bearing by means of polarized sunlight when the sun is invisible.
- spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
- spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
- spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
- spodomantic — relating to spodomancy
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- tomographic — relating to tomography
- tonic spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
- uncompacted — not compacted
- uncompanied — unaccompanied
- uncompliant — complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
- wet compass — a compass having a compass card floating in a liquid.