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14-letter words containing e, m, p, l, c

  • hyperglycaemic — Alternative spelling of hyperglycemic.
  • hyperlipidemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; lipemia.
  • hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hypermetabolic — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • hypodermically — By hypodermic means.
  • hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
  • ibm compatible — (computer)   A computer which can use hardware and software designed for the IBM PC (or, less often, IBM mainframes). This was once a key phrase in marketing a new PC clone but now in 1998 is rarely used, the non-IBM wintel personal computer manufacturers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway 2000 and OS vendor Microsoft having taken control of the market, marginalising IBM.
  • immune complex — an aggregate of an antigen and its specific antibody.
  • impeachability — The state or condition of being impeachable.
  • imperial beach — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
  • implacableness — The quality of being implacable.
  • import licence — a government-issued document that authorizes the importation of goods into its country
  • incomes policy — a government policy to curb inflation that relies on voluntary compliance rather than on mandatory wage, price, or profit controls.
  • incompleteness — not complete; lacking some part.
  • incompressible — not capable of being compressed.
  • incorporealism — Existence without a body or material form; immateriality.
  • indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
  • intermunicipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
  • kelyphitic rim — a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock, formed by reaction of the interned mineral with the surrounding rock
  • khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
  • kleptomaniacal — Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does.
  • ladder company — hook-and-ladder company.
  • lake champlain — a lake in the northeastern US, between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains: linked by the Champlain Canal to the Hudson River and by the Richelieu River to the St Lawrence; a major communications route in colonial times
  • lambeth palace — the official residence of the archbishop of Canterbury, in Lambeth.
  • landscape mode — a wide exposure suitable for photographing landscapes
  • lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
  • limited policy — a policy that covers only certain types of losses within an area of risks.
  • lip microphone — a microphone designed and shaped to be held close to the mouth, for use in noisy environments
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • livery company — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
  • locker-lampsonFrederick (Frederick Locker) 1821–95, English poet.
  • lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • macrocephalous — Having a large head.
  • magnetooptical — Having both magnetic and optical elements.
  • malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
  • matched sample — a sample in which the individuals selected for analysis share all properties except that under investigation
  • medigap policy — A Medigap policy is a private extra health insurance plan in the U.S. that provides coverage for medical expenses that are not or only partially covered by Medicare.
  • megalocephalic — Cephalometry, Craniometry. macrocephalic.
  • megascopically — macroscopically
  • mesaticephalic — (anatomy) Having a cranium with a medium ratio of length to breadth.
  • mesencephalons — Plural form of mesencephalon.
  • metaphorically — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
  • metaphysically — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • metaplasticity — Any activity-dependent change to neural function that modulates subsequent synaptic plasticity.
  • metapsychology — speculative thought dealing systematically with concepts extending beyond the limits of psychology as an empirical science.
  • metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
  • metoclopramide — a white crystalline substance, C 1 4 H 2 2 ClN 3 O 2 , used primarily in the symptomatic treatment of certain upper gastrointestinal tract problems, and as an antiemetic.
  • metoposcopical — relating to metoposcopy
  • metrical psalm — a translation of one of the psalms into rhyming strict-metre verse usually sung as a hymn
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