11-letter words containing a, p, m
- maple grove — a town in SE Minnesota.
- maple honey — maple syrup.
- maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
- maple syrup — a syrup produced by partially boiling down the sap of the sugar maple or of any of several other maple trees.
- mapping pen — a pen with a fine point, used esp for drawing maps
- marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.
- marking pen — marker (def 10).
- marksperson — A marksman or markswoman.
- marlinspike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marshalship — The position or role of a marshal.
- massey hope — (language, functional programming) A refinement of Hope+C by Nigel Perry <[email protected]> of Massey University, NZ, with improved syntax.
- master copy — an original copy, stencil, tape, etc, from which duplicates are made
- master plan — A master plan is a clever plan that is intended to help someone succeed in a very difficult or important task.
- master tape — an original copy of an audio tape that can be used to produce other copies
- master-plan — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- masterpiece — a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.
- mastoplasty — (surgery) Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
- match plate — a plate on which patterns are set to be molded.
- match point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the match.
- match up to — If someone or something does not match up to what was expected, they are smaller, less impressive, or of poorer quality.
- mauvais pas — a place that presents a particular difficulty on a climb or walk
- maxillipeds — Plural form of maxilliped.
- maximaphily — the collection or study of picture postcards which depict a picture similar, or identical, to that on the stamp, and which also have a related postmark
- mean planet — a hypothetical planet that coincides with a real planet when the real planet is at perihelion and that moves in an orbit at a constant velocity equal to the mean velocity of the real planet.
- meatpacking — (US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
- mecopterans — Plural form of mecopteran.
- media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
- megacephaly — macrocephalic.
- megalopolis — a very large city.
- megaparsecs — Plural form of megaparsec.
- megaphoning — Present participle of megaphone.
- megaphonist — Someone who uses a megaphone.
- megapolises — Plural form of megapolis.
- megapolitan — of, relating to, or characteristic of a megalopolis.
- megaproject — A very large public investment project, especially one costing more than one billion US dollars.
- melanophore — a pigmented connective-tissue cell containing melanin in its cytoplasm, responsible for color changes in many fishes and reptiles.
- meliphagous — feeding on honey
- mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
- meme plague — (philosophy) The spread of a successful but pernicious meme, especially one that parasitises the victims into giving their all to propagate it. Astrology, BASIC, and the other guy's religion are often considered to be examples. This usage is given point by the historical fact that "joiner" ideologies like Naziism or various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir populations.
- memory span — the capacity of short-term memory, usually between 5 and 10 items
- menaphthone — Menadione.
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- meprobamate — a white powder, C 9 H 1 8 N 2 O 4 , used in medicine chiefly as a tranquilizer for treating anxiety, tension, and skeletal muscle spasm.
- mesopelagic — of, relating to, or living in the ocean at a depth of between 600 feet (180 meters) and 3000 feet (900 meters).
- mesopotamia — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- mesotherapy — a cosmetic procedure in which minute doses of medication, vitamins, etc, are injected repeatedly into the mesodermal tissue under the skin to promote fat loss
- messiahship — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
- metacarpals — Plural form of metacarpal.
- metamorphic — pertaining to or characterized by change of form, or metamorphosis.
- metanephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.