12-letter words containing a, m, p, l, e, n
- impenetrable — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- impenetrably — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- impersonally — In an impersonal manner.
- imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
- impressional — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
- imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incompliance — not compliant; unyielding.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- lamellaphone — Alt form lamellophone.
- lamellophone — (musical instruments) Any of several musical instruments in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellaa attached to a sounding board.
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
- major planet — planet (def 1a).
- major-planet — Astronomy. Also called major planet. any of the eight large heavenly bodies revolving about the sun and shining by reflected light: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune, in the order of their proximity to the sun. Until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet ninth in order from the sun; it has been reclassified as a dwarf planet. a similar body revolving about a star other than the sun. (formerly) a celestial body moving in the sky, as distinguished from a fixed star, applied also to the sun and moon.
- malimprinted — (of an animal or person) suffering from a defect in the behavioural process of imprinting, resulting in attraction to members of other species, fetishism, etc
- manila paper — strong, light-brown or buff paper, originally made from Manila hemp but now also from wood pulp substitutes and various other fibers.
- manipulative — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- mantle plume — plume (def 10).
- marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- meclonazepam — A benzodiazepine derivative, similar in structure to clonazepam, with sedative and anxiolytic effects and antiparasitic activity against Schistosoma mansoni.
- median plane — a vertical plane that divides an organism into symmetrical halves.
- melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
- melanotropin — MSH.
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- metallophone — any musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of metal bars that may either be struck by hammers operated manually or played with a keyboard.
- metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
- microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- middle plane — middle distance (def 1).
- minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- mole mapping — the procedure of using a digital camera to record the positions and appearances of moles on a person's body so that regular checks will detect any changes that might lead to skin cancer
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- money player — a person who performs best under pressure, especially in a competitive situation.
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
- monopetalous — gamopetalous.
- monosepalous — gamosepalous.
- municipalize — to make a municipality of.
- neoplatonism — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- nonempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- nonpermeable — capable of being permeated.