12-letter words containing c, a, m, p, s
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- incompassing — Present participle of incompass.
- incompassion — (obsolete) Lack of compassion.
- leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
- lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
- liposarcomas — Plural form of liposarcoma.
- 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.
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- macrocarpous — having large fruit.
- macrophagous — (of an animal) feeding on relatively large particles of food
- macrophysics — the branch of physics that deals with physical objects large enough to be observed and treated directly.
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- make-up case — a case in which cosmetics are kept
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- mammaplastic — Of, or pertaining to, mammaplasty.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- marine corps — a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces trained for land, sea, and air combat, typically for land combat in conjunction with an amphibious or airborne landing, and whose commandant is responsible to the secretary of the navy.
- marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- masterpieces — Plural form of masterpiece.
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapolitics — political theory: often used derogatorily
- metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
- metric space — a space with a metric defined on it.
- microamperes — Plural form of microampere.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- monosynaptic — having or relating to a sole synapse
- moss campion — cushion pink.
- mossycup oak — bur oak
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- multi-pascal — An extension of Pascal-S with multiprocessing features. Used in "The Art of Parallel Programming", Bruce P. Lester, P-H 1993.
- municipalism — the principle or system of home rule by a municipality.
- musicianship — knowledge, skill, and artistic sensitivity in performing music.
- mustache cup — a cup having a straight piece inside, just below the rim, for holding back a man's mustache while he is drinking.
- mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- omphaloscopy — Introversion.
- optic chiasm — a site at the base of the forebrain where the inner half of the fibers of the left and right optic nerves cross to the opposite side of the brain.
- optimistical — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.