11-letter words containing c, l, i, m, p
- liposarcoma — (medicine) Any malignant tumour that originates in adipose tissue.
- lycopodiums — Plural form of lycopodium.
- lymphocytic — Of, or pertaining to lymphocytes.
- magic spell — incantation or curse
- malacophily — pollination of plants by snails
- malpractice — Law. failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows.
- mantelpiece — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantlepiece — mantel.
- mesopelagic — of, relating to, or living in the ocean at a depth of between 600 feet (180 meters) and 3000 feet (900 meters).
- mesophyllic — (botany) Of or pertaining to the mesophyll of a leaf.
- metaplasmic — Cell Biology. the nonliving matter or inclusions, as starch or pigments, within a cell.
- metaplastic — the transformation of one type of tissue into another.
- microcephal — a person with microcephaly
- microfloppy — Alternative spelling of micro-floppy.
- microphylls — Plural form of microphyll.
- mimic panel — a panel simulating the geographical layout of a television studio, railway points system, traffic interchange, etc, in which small indicator lamps display the selected state of the lighting circuits, signalling, traffic lights, etc
- monodelphic — having a sole set of reproductive organs
- morphologic — Of or pertaining to morphology; morphological.
- multicampus — (of a university or organization) having multiple campuses or locations
- multicuspid — (in humans) a tooth with a single projection point or elevation; canine.
- multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- municipally — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- nicol prism — one of a pair of prisms used to produce and analyze plane-polarized light in a polarizing microscope. Also called Nicol. Compare polarizer (def 1).
- pack animal — a mule, donkey, burro, or horse bred for vigor and hardiness and used for carrying heavy loads.
- palindromic — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palmatisect — (of leaves) having palmate veins and lobes split almost to the base of the blade.
- pan-islamic — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.
- panic alarm — an alarm that can be set off to alert others in the case of an emergency
- paramedical — related to the medical profession in a secondary or supplementary capacity.
- pay a claim — If an insurer pays a claim, it pays money to a policyholder because a loss or risk occurs against which they were insured.
- pencil beam — a cone-shaped radar beam.
- penciliform — having a pencillike shape.
- penicillium — any fungus of the genus Penicillium, certain species of which are used in cheesemaking and as the source of penicillin.
- philomathic — relating to or enjoying the process of learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
- phlebotomic — of or noting phlebotomy.
- physicalism — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- planimetric — the measurement of plane areas.
- plasmatical — relating to plasma
- platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- pleomorphic — of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.
- pleximetric — relating to a pleximeter
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
- police motu — a pidginized version of the Motu language, used as a lingua franca in Papua, originally chiefly by the police
- policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
- policy term — The policy term is the lifetime of an insurance policy.
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.