12-letter words containing c, a, p, e, n, i
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- landed price — the price when delivered
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
- linear space — vector space.
- 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.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- 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.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- 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.
- meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
- micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
- 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 microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- municipalize — to make a municipality of.
- nanoparticle — a microscopic particle of matter that is measured on the nanoscale, usually one that measures less than 100 nanometers.
- necrophiliac — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- neoanthropic — neanthropic.
- nephropathic — characterized by or relating to nephropathy
- nepotistical — Nepotistic.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
- nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
- nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
- non-empathic — of, relating to, or characterized by empathy, the psychological identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others: a sensitive, empathetic school counselor.
- nonempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- nonpolemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- oil in place — The oil in place is the amount of crude oil which is estimated to be in a reservoir.
- onomatopoeic — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- organoleptic — perceived by a sense organ.
- packing case — a box in which goods are packed for transport or storage.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paedodontics — the branch of dentistry that focuses on the care of children's teeth
- paling-fence — Also called paling fence. picket fence.
- pan-american — of, relating to, or representing all the countries or people of North, Central, and South America.
- pancake coil — a coil (of wire, etc) wound in a flat circular shape
- pancreatitis — inflammation of the pancreas.
- pancytopenia — an abnormally low level of all blood cells
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- pantechnicon — a furniture van; moving van.
- paracentesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- parascending — parasailing
- parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.