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11-letter words containing e, m, p, u

  • impoundment — a body of water confined within an enclosure, as a reservoir.
  • imprudently — Without prudence; in an imprudent manner.
  • impuissance — Impotence, weakness.
  • impulse buy — spur-of-the-moment purchase
  • impulsively — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
  • in the lump — in the mass or aggregate; all together
  • intercampus — the grounds, often including the buildings, of a college, university, or school.
  • iron-pumper — a person who pumps iron; weightlifter.
  • jump jockey — A jump jockey is someone who rides horses in races such as steeplechases, where the horses have to jump over obstacles.
  • jumpmasters — Plural form of jumpmaster.
  • jumpstarted — Simple past tense and past participle of jumpstart.
  • lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
  • leprosarium — a hospital for the treatment of lepers.
  • long jumper — an athlete who does the long jump
  • lorem ipsum — (text)   A common piece of text used as mock-content when testing a given page layout or font. The following text is often used: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetaur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum." This continues at length and variously. The text is not really Greek, but badly garbled Latin. It started life as extracted phrases from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of Cicero's "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" ("The Extremes of Good and Evil"), which read: Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur? At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio cumque nihil impedit quo minus id quod maxime placeat facere possimus, omnis voluptas assumenda est, omnis dolor repellendus. Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus saepe eveniet ut et voluptates repudiandae sint et molestiae non recusandae. Itaque earum rerum hic tenetur a sapiente delectus, ut aut reiciendis voluptatibus maiores alias consequatur aut perferendis doloribus asperiores repellat. Translation: But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. -- Translation by H. Rackham, from his 1914 edition of De Finibus. However, since textual fidelity was unimportant to the goal of having random text to fill a page, it has degraded over the centuries, into "Lorem ipsum...". The point of using this text, or some other text of incidental intelligibility, is that it has a more-or-less normal (for English and Latin, at least) distribution of ascenders, descenders, and word-lengths, as opposed to just using "abc 123 abc 123", "Content here content here", or the like. The text is often used when previewing the layout of a document, as the use of more understandable text would distract the user from the layout being examined. A related technique is greeking.
  • luminophore — a molecule or group of molecules that emits light when illuminated.
  • lump hammer — a heavy hammer used for driving stakes or breaking stone
  • lumpenprole — a member of the lumpenproletariat.
  • lumpishness — The property of being lumpish.
  • lumpsuckers — Plural form of lumpsucker.
  • make up for — compensate
  • make-up bag — a bag in which cosmetics are kept
  • make-up man — a man who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
  • manipulable — capable of or susceptible to being manipulated; manipulatable.
  • manipulated — Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate.
  • manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
  • manure heap — a pile of animal excreta, esp on a farm, kept for use as fertiliser
  • maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
  • maple syrup — a syrup produced by partially boiling down the sap of the sugar maple or of any of several other maple trees.
  • mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
  • media group — an association of companies involved with the means of mass communication
  • meliphagous — feeding on honey
  • meme plague — (philosophy)   The spread of a successful but pernicious meme, especially one that parasitises the victims into giving their all to propagate it. Astrology, BASIC, and the other guy's religion are often considered to be examples. This usage is given point by the historical fact that "joiner" ideologies like Naziism or various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir populations.
  • memory dump — (programming, operating system, jargon)   (Or "core dump") A file on hard disk (traditionally called "core") containing a copy of the contents of a process's memory, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error or signal.
  • menispermum — any of several tropical climbing plants of the genus Menispermum of the family Menispermaceae
  • mesophilous — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
  • middle loup — a river in central Nebraska, flowing E and SE to join the North Loup and South Loup rivers in forming the Loup River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
  • mispersuade — to persuade wrongly
  • mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
  • most-lupine — pertaining to or resembling the wolf.
  • mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
  • mount pelée — a volcano in the Caribbean, in N Martinique: erupted in 1902, killing every person but one in the town of Saint-Pierre. Height: 1463 m (4800 ft)
  • mount siple — a mountain in Antarctica, on the coast of Byrd Land. Height: 3100 m (10 171 ft)
  • mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
  • mucopeptide — Peptidoglycan.
  • mucoprotein — a protein that yields carbohydrates as well as amino acids on hydrolysis.
  • mudskippers — Plural form of mudskipper.
  • mudspringer — mudskipper.
  • multiperiod — Relating to multiple periods.
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