12-letter words containing c, a, m, p
- impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
- impermanence — not permanent or enduring; transitory.
- impermanency — Alternative form of impermanence.
- impierceable — not able to be pierced
- implications — something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood: to resent an implication of dishonesty.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- in-compliant — not compliant; unyielding.
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incomparably — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incompassing — Present participle of incompass.
- incompassion — (obsolete) Lack of compassion.
- incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incompatibly — In an incompatible manner.
- incompliance — not compliant; unyielding.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- incomputably — In an incomputable way.
- intemperance — excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
- intercompany — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- intercompare — (of members of a group) to compare each member against all other members
- intracompany — occurring within a company, especially between employees or branches of the company.
- itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
- jump a claim — to seize mining rights or land claimed by someone else
- jumping jack — a toy consisting of a jointed figure that is made to jump, move, or dance by pulling a string or stick attached to it.
- keep company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- lampadomancy — a method of divination by studying the carbon deposits left by a burning lamp or candle
- lamprophyric — belonging or relating to a lamprophyre
- 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.
- mac playmate — (games) An early (~1985) example of a pornographic computer game. Mac Playmate runs on the Macintosh and involves trying to stimulate a simulated woman to orgasm by applying various implements to her erogenous zones.
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- machtpolitik — power politics
- machu picchu — the site of an ancient Incan and pre-Incan city, about 7000 feet (2130 meters) above sea level in the Andes, in S central Peru.
- macrocarpous — having large fruit.
- macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- 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.
- magic carpet — flying rug in fantasy stories
- magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
- make-up case — a case in which cosmetics are kept
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- mammaplastic — Of, or pertaining to, mammaplasty.