11-letter words containing e, p, i, c, t
- luteotropic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- 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.
- masterpiece — a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.
- meatpacking — (US) The slaughter and further processing of animals for meat.
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- metamorphic — pertaining to or characterized by change of form, or metamorphosis.
- metanephric — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.
- metaphysics — metaphysics.
- 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.
- metapsychic — relating to metapsychics
- metatrophic — requiring dead organic matter for food.
- metempirics — the philosophy dealing with the existence of things outside, or beyond, experience.
- microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- mucopeptide — Peptidoglycan.
- mucoprotein — a protein that yields carbohydrates as well as amino acids on hydrolysis.
- mycoprotein — A food product derived from fungus, the basis of Quorn.
- myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- mythopoetic — of or relating to the making of myths; causing, producing, or giving rise to myths.
- narcoleptic — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- neanthropic — of or relating to modern forms of humans as compared with extinct species of the genus Homo.
- negentropic — Of or characterized by a reduction in entropy (and corresponding increase in order).
- neoplatonic — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- neotropical — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising that part of the New World extending from the tropic of Cancer southward.
- nephritical — Alternative form of nephritic.
- nephrotoxic — Damaging or destructive to the kidneys.
- neuroleptic — (chiefly of a drug) tending to reduce nervous tension by depressing nerve functions.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- neurotropic — having an affinity for nerve cells or tissue: a neurotropic virus; a neurotropic drug.
- neutropenic — Having neutropenia.
- nightscopes — Plural form of nightscope.
- nociception — The physiological process underlying the sensation of pain.
- nociceptive — Of, relating to, or denoting pain arising from the stimulation of nerve cells (often as distinct from that arising from damage or disease in the nerves themselves).
- nociceptors — Plural form of nociceptor.
- nondescript — of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
- nonemphatic — lacking emphasis, not emphatic
- nonoperatic — not operatic
- nonphonetic — not phonetic
- nuncupative — (especially of a will) oral; not written.
- object lisp — (language) An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
- octapeptide — An oligopeptide having eight amino acids.
- octuplicate — a group, series, or set of eight identical copies (usually preceded by in).
- omnipotence — the quality or state of being omnipotent.
- omnipotency — Omnipotence. (from 15th c.).
- oncoprotein — (genetics, oncology, protein) A protein that is coded for by an oncogene.
- onomatopeic — Alternative form of onomatopoeic.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.