16-letter words containing i, m, p, a
- in/into a temper — If someone is in a temper or gets into a temper, the way that they are behaving shows that they are feeling angry and impatient.
- indirect primary — a primary in which members of a party elect delegates to a party convention that in turn elects the party's candidates.
- information pack — a set of leaflets giving information about something
- inmos transputer — transputer
- installment plan — a system for paying for an item in fixed amounts at specified intervals.
- instrument panel — Also called instrument board. a panel on which are mounted an array of dials, lights, and gauges that monitor the performance of a machine or device, as an airplane.
- inter-comparison — the act of comparing.
- interappointment — Between appointments.
- interest payment — a payment of interest on a loan or mortgage
- interior mapping — an open map.
- intimate apparel — lingerie (sense 2)
- intracytoplasmic — Located in the cytoplasm of a cell.
- ion implantation — a method of implanting impurities below the surface of a solid, usually a semiconductor, by bombarding the solid with a beam of ions of the impurity.
- kaposi's sarcoma — a form of skin cancer found in Africans and more recently in victims of AIDS
- kiss and make up — be reconciled
- kleptoparasitism — The parasitic theft of captured prey, nest material, etc. from animals of the same or another species.
- law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
- league champions — the team that has come top of the league
- learner's permit — A learner's permit is a license that allows you to drive a vehicle before you have passed your driving test.
- loop combination — A program transformation where the bodies of two loops are merged into one thus reducing the overhead of manipulating and testing the control variable and branching. Further optimisation of the merged code may then become possible. In horizontal loop combination the bodies of the loops are largely independent so only the loop overhead is saved. Vertical loop combination applies where the results of the first loop are used by the second. Combining the two allows the intermediate results to be used immediately (in registers) rather than requiring them to be stored in an array. The functional equivalent of horizontal and vertical loop combination are tupling and fusion.
- lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
- lymphangiography — x-ray visualization of lymph vessels and nodes following injection of a contrast medium.
- lymphatic system — an extensive network of capillary vessels that transports the interstitial fluid of the body as lymph to the venous blood circulation
- lymphatic tissue — tissue, such as the lymph nodes, tonsils, spleen, and thymus, that produces lymphocytes
- mach's principle — the proposition that there is no absolute space and that the inertia and acceleration of a body are determined by all of the matter of the universe.
- machine operator — someone who operates mechanical equipment
- macrolepidoptera — a collector's name for that part of the lepidoptera that comprises the butterflies and the larger moths (noctuids, geometrids, bombycids, springtails, etc): a term without taxonomic significance
- magmatic stoping — the process by which country rock is broken up and engulfed by the upward movement of magma
- magnetic compass — a compass having a magnetized needle generally in line with the magnetic poles of the earth.
- magnetic pick-up — a type of record player pick-up in which the stylus moves an iron core in a coil, causing a changing magnetic field that produces the current
- magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
- majority opinion — an opinion in a case that is shared by more than half of the members of a court
- make a complaint — If a guest makes a complaint, they express their dissatisfaction with something.
- make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
- malapportionment — (of a state or other political unit) poorly apportioned, especially divided, organized, or structured in a manner that prevents large sections of a population from having equitable representation in a legislative body.
- mallowpuff māori — a Māori who is considered to behave like a white person
- malpighian layer — the deep, germinative layer of the epidermis.
- malpractice suit — a lawsuit brought against a professional accused of illegal or unethical practices or neglect of duty
- mamihlapinatapai — A situation in which all participants want something to be done, but none want to do it.
- mammographically — Using a mammograph, by means of mammograph.
- man booker prize — an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002
- manic depression — bipolar disorder.
- manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
- manipulativeness — Quality of being manipulative.
- mari el republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Yoshkar-Ola. Pop: 728 000 (2002). Area: 23 200 sq km (8955 sq miles)
- marriage partner — a person you are married to
- marriage portion — dowry.
- marseille prolog — (language) One of the two main dialects of Prolog, the other being Edinburgh Prolog. The difference is largely syntax. The original Marseille Interpreter (1973) was written in Fortran.
- marsupialization — (surgery) The surgical technique of cutting a slit into a cyst and suturing its edges to form a continuous surface from the exterior to the interior of the cyst, allowing it to drain freely.