12-letter words containing i, m, p, a, c, t
- itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
- machtpolitik — power politics
- magic carpet — flying rug in fantasy stories
- magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- mammaplastic — Of, or pertaining to, mammaplasty.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
- masterpieces — Plural form of masterpiece.
- matrix patch — A matrix patch is an adhesive patch with medicine distributed through the adhesive. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered into the skin and into the bloodstream.
- meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
- metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
- metaleptical — metaleptic
- metaphorical — 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).
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapolitics — political theory: often used derogatorily
- metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
- metempirical — beyond or outside the field of experience.
- metric space — a space with a metric defined on it.
- micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- monosynaptic — having or relating to a sole synapse
- multi-pascal — An extension of Pascal-S with multiprocessing features. Used in "The Art of Parallel Programming", Bruce P. Lester, P-H 1993.
- multicipital — (of a rhizome or root) producing several crowns
- multiplicand — a number to be multiplied by another.
- multiplicate — multiple; manifold.
- municipality — a city, town, or other district possessing corporate existence and usually its own local government.
- mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
- non-empathic — of, relating to, or characterized by empathy, the psychological identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others: a sensitive, empathetic school counselor.
- noncompliant — failure or refusal to comply, as with a law, regulation, or term of a contract.
- normal pitch — relative point, position, or degree: a high pitch of excitement.
- onomatopoeic — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- opium addict — someone who is addicted to the dried juice extracted from the unripe seed capsules of the opium poppy
- optic chiasm — a site at the base of the forebrain where the inner half of the fibers of the left and right optic nerves cross to the opposite side of the brain.
- optimistical — disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- optometrical — the practice or profession of examining the eyes, by means of suitable instruments or appliances, for defects in vision and eye disorders in order to prescribe corrective lenses or other appropriate treatment.
- overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
- pacific time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
- paleoclimate — the climate of some former period of geologic time.
- palimpsestic — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- paradigmatic — of or relating to a paradigm.