11-letter words containing a, p, m
- monographed — Simple past tense and past participle of monograph.
- monographic — a treatise on a particular subject, as a biographical study or study of the works of one artist.
- monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
- monotherapy — (medicine) A therapy which is administered by itself.
- moon pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the moon, believed to be caused by the reflection of moonlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
- moore graph — A graph which achieves the Moore bound. These are complete graphs, polygon graphs (regular graphs of degree 2) and three others: (nodes, degree, diameter) = (10,3,2), (50,7,2) and the possible but undiscovered (3250,57,2).
- mopani worm — an edible caterpillar that feeds on mopani leaves
- mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
- morphograph — A logical fragment of a word, such as prefix or suffix, used in teaching spelling.
- morse taper — a taper that is one of a standard series used in the shank of tools to fit a matching taper in the mandrel of a machine tool
- mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
- mountaintop — The summit or top part of a mountain.
- moving part — a part in a machine that has power to move
- mpls domain — (networking) A portion of a network that contains devices that understand MPLS.
- muck-up day — the last day of school before the annual examinations, marked by practical jokes and other student pranks
- multicampus — (of a university or organization) having multiple campuses or locations
- multiparity — of or relating to a multipara.
- multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
- multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiplanes — Plural form of multiplane.
- multiplayer — of or relating to a video game, or a portion of a video game, in which more than one person plays at the same time in a shared game environment: a multiplayer game; multiplayer mode; a multiplayer experience.
- multispiral — having several spiral coils
- munich pact — the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.
- municipally — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- murphy game — a confidence game in which the victim pays the swindler (Murphy Man) for something, as the services of a prostitute, which the swindler promises but the victim never receives
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
- mustard pot — a small pot, of glass, silver, etc, placed on the table to serve mustard
- mycophagist — a fungus-eating organism.
- mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
- mycoplasmal — Of or pertaining to mycoplasma.
- mycoplasmas — Plural form of mycoplasma.
- myelography — the production of myelograms.
- myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
- mythography — a written collection of myths.
- namby-pamby — without firm methods or policy; weak or indecisive: namby-pamby handling of juvenile offenders.
- namedropper — A person who name-drops.
- napalm bomb — a bomb made from a thick and highly incendiary liquid, usually consisting of petrol gelled with aluminium soaps, used in firebombs, flame-throwers, etc
- naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
- nematomorph — any member of the phylum Nematomorpha, having a threadlike body, comprising the horsehair worms.
- nematophore — (within the coenosarc of certain colonial hydrozoans) a small specialized tentacle-like polyp having nematocysts
- neopaganism — a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities.
- no-platform — to deny (a person) the opportunity to speak in a political debate or forum
- nominal par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- nomographer — the art of or a treatise on drawing up laws.
- non-payment — Non-payment is a failure to pay a sum of money that you owe.
- nonemphatic — lacking emphasis, not emphatic
- nontemporal — not indicating time
- normocapnia — (medicine) The presence of the normal amount of carbon dioxide in arterial blood.