9-letter words containing a, m, p, c
- machpelah — the site of a cave, probably in the ancient city of Hebron, where Abraham, Sarah, Rebekah, Isaac, Jacob, and Leah were buried. Gen. 23:19; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13.
- macro sap — Macro processing modification of SAP. D.E. Eastwood and D.M. McIlroy, unpublished memorandum, Bell Labs 1959. Led to TRAC.
- macrocopy — an enlargement of printed material for easier reading
- macropods — Plural form of macropod.
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- macropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be larger than their actual size.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- manoscopy — the measurement of the densities of gases
- marchpane — marzipan.
- matchplay — Alternative form of match play.
- mcpartlin — Antony. born 1975, British television presenter, who appears with Declan Donnelly as Ant and Dec
- mea culpa — an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- meatspace — The physical world, as opposed to cyberspace or a virtual environment.
- megalopic — having large eyes
- megascope — A modification of the magic lantern, used especially for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- mercaptan — any of a class of sulfur-containing compounds having the type formula RSH, in which R represents a radical, and having an extremely offensive, garlicky odor.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- metacarpi — Plural form of metacarpus.
- metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- micro-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a very small market capitalization, usually under $250 million.
- micropsia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- microtape — (hardware, storage) /mi:'kroh-tayp/ Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a macrotape. Apparently the term "microtape" was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape", which, of course, sounded sexier to the marketroids. Another version of the story holds that someone discovered a conflict with another company's "microtape" trademark.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- mishpocha — an entire family network comprising relatives by blood and marriage and sometimes including close friends; clan.
- mispacked — filled to capacity; full: They've had a packed theater for every performance.
- misplaced — to put in a wrong place.
- misplaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misplace.
- monocarps — Plural form of monocarp.
- monospace — Of a typeface, having the same width for each character.
- moonscape — the general appearance of the surface of the moon.
- muck heap — a pile of dung, soil or refuse
- muckheaps — Plural form of muckheap.
- multipack — a packaged item containing two or more products sold as a unit.
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- mycophagy — the eating of mushrooms
- myopathic — Pertaining to myopathy.
- namespace — (computing) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.
- noncampus — not located on a campus of a university, corporation, or any other business or organization
- nonimpact — Not involving impact.
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- on-campus — on the area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college
- opthalmic — Misspelling of ophthalmic.
- pacemaker — pacesetter.
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- pachyderm — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- pachynema — the third stage of prophase in meiosis, during which each chromosome pair separates into sister chromatids with some breakage and crossing over of genes.