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12-letter words containing i, m, p, e, n

  • jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
  • jumping gene — transposon.
  • jumping hare — springhare.
  • keep in mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • keeping room — hall (def 11).
  • kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
  • lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
  • leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
  • lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
  • lisp machine — 1.   (architecture)   Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2.   (hardware, operating system)   A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
  • machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
  • 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.
  • malimprinted — (of an animal or person) suffering from a defect in the behavioural process of imprinting, resulting in attraction to members of other species, fetishism, etc
  • manila paper — strong, light-brown or buff paper, originally made from Manila hemp but now also from wood pulp substitutes and various other fibers.
  • manipulative — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
  • manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
  • mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
  • marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
  • marine corps — a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces trained for land, sea, and air combat, typically for land combat in conjunction with an amphibious or airborne landing, and whose commandant is responsible to the secretary of the navy.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • martempering — a quenching process used to harden austenitic steel.
  • masking tape — an easily removed adhesive tape used temporarily for defining margins, protecting surfaces, etc., as when painting, and sometimes also for binding, sealing, or mending.
  • master point — a point awarded to a bridge player who has won or placed in an officially recognized tournament.
  • master print — an original copy of a cinema film that can be used to produce other copies
  • meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
  • 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.
  • media person — a person who works in the mass media
  • median plane — a vertical plane that divides an organism into symmetrical halves.
  • median point — centroid (def 2).
  • median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
  • meeting post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
  • melanotropin — MSH.
  • mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
  • mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
  • metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
  • metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
  • microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
  • microprinted — printed in microprint
  • middle plane — middle distance (def 1).
  • mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
  • mine-sweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
  • minesweepers — Plural form of minesweeper.
  • minesweeping — (nautical) The detection and safe disposal of mines.
  • minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
  • ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
  • minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
  • mis-shipment — a quantity of freight or cargo shipped at one time.
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