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8-letter words containing e, m, p, l

  • manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
  • maniples — Plural form of maniple.
  • mappable — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
  • mayapple — American plant
  • maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
  • megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
  • megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
  • megaplex — a large building containing many movie theaters, usually more than a dozen.
  • melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
  • metopryl — a colourless liquid, C4H10O, that is related to ether and was formerly used as an anaesthetic
  • milarepa — (tool)   A Perl BNF parser generator by Jeffrey Kegler <[email protected]>. Milarepa takes a source grammar written in a mixture of BNF and Perl and generates Perl source, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses the language described by the grammar. Milarepa is not restricted to LRn grammars, and the parse logic follows directly from the BNF. It handles ambiguous grammars, ambiguous tokens (tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and allows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammar may not be left recursive. The input must be divided into sentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixed distinction between terminals and non-terminals, that is, a symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side of a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a single Perl program. Version: Prototype 1.0. Posted to comp.lang.perl. The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.
  • milepost — any of a series of posts set up to mark distance by miles, as along a highway, or an individual post showing the distance to or from a place.
  • misplace — to put in a wrong place.
  • misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
  • misspell — Spell (a word) incorrectly.
  • misspelt — Simple past tense and past participle of misspell.
  • monopole — magnetic monopole.
  • mpegplus — (compression, algorithm)   A non-ISO standard compressed audio file format derived from MPEG-1 Layer 2.
  • multiped — having many feet.
  • multiple — consisting of, having, or involving several or many individuals, parts, elements, relations, etc.; manifold.
  • napalmed — Simple past tense and past participle of napalm.
  • neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
  • omoplate — the shoulder blade
  • packmule — a mule used to carry goods
  • palmated — shaped like an open palm or like a hand with the fingers extended, as a leaf or an antler.
  • palmdale — a city in SW California.
  • palmette — a conventionalized shape in the form of palmately spread leaves or sections, used as ornamentation. Compare anthemion, lotus (def 5).
  • palmetto — any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as of the genera Sabal, Serenoa, and Thrinax.
  • palmgren — Selim [sel-im,, sey-lim;; Finnish se-lim] /ˈsɛl ɪm,, ˈseɪ lɪm;; Finnish ˈsɛ lɪm/ (Show IPA), 1878–1951, Finnish pianist and composer.
  • palmiped — a web-footed bird
  • palmlike — resembling a palm
  • palometa — a pompano, Trachinotus goodei, of tropical and temperate Atlantic seas, having long, tapering fins.
  • pamphlet — a complete publication of generally less than 80 pages stitched or stapled together and usually having a paper cover.
  • peculium — property that a father or master allowed his child or slave to hold as his own
  • pelmatic — of or relating to the sole of the foot
  • pelorism — a floral mutation involving the formation of peloric flowers
  • pemoline — a synthetic, weak, central nervous system stimulant, C 9 H 8 N 2 O 2 , with sympathomimetic activity, used as an adjunct in the management of hyperkinetic behavior disorders.
  • pendulum — a body so suspended from a fixed point as to move to and fro by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
  • per mill — per thousand.
  • perelman — S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
  • periblem — the histogen in plants that gives rise to the cortex.
  • pessimal — /pes'im-l/ (Latin-based antonym for "optimal") Maximally bad. "This is a pessimal situation." Also "pessimise" To make as bad as possible. These words are the obvious Latin-based antonyms for "optimal" and "optimise", but for some reason they do not appear in most English dictionaries, although "pessimise" is listed in the OED.
  • petalism — a form of expulsion that typically lasted for five years and was dealt to those who were seen to have treacherous aspirations and objectives and was carried out in Syracuse in Ancient Greece
  • petaluma — a city in W California, N of San Francisco.
  • philemon — an Epistle written by Paul. Abbreviation: Phil.
  • philomel — the nightingale.
  • phlegmon — a swollen, red, and painful mass affecting bodily tissue that may progress to abscess
  • phyllome — a leaf of a plant.
  • picomole — a trillionth of a mole
  • placeman — a person appointed to a position, especially one in the government, as a reward for political support of an elected official.
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