14-letter words containing i, m, p, l, e
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
- leptomeningeal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the leptomeninges.
- limited policy — a policy that covers only certain types of losses within an area of risks.
- lip microphone — a microphone designed and shaped to be held close to the mouth, for use in noisy environments
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- livery company — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
- lz compression — Lempel-Ziv compression
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- magnetooptical — Having both magnetic and optical elements.
- malapportioned — (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.
- malappropriate — inappropriate
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- manipulatively — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- manitoba maple — a Canadian fast-growing variety of maple
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- marsupial mole — a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
- masterplanning — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- medigap policy — A Medigap policy is a private extra health insurance plan in the U.S. that provides coverage for medical expenses that are not or only partially covered by Medicare.
- megalocephalic — Cephalometry, Craniometry. macrocephalic.
- megascopically — macroscopically
- mephistopheles — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mesaticephalic — (anatomy) Having a cranium with a medium ratio of length to breadth.
- met enkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
- metaphorically — 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).
- metaphysically — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metaplasticity — Any activity-dependent change to neural function that modulates subsequent synaptic plasticity.
- metoclopramide — a white crystalline substance, C 1 4 H 2 2 ClN 3 O 2 , used primarily in the symptomatic treatment of certain upper gastrointestinal tract problems, and as an antiemetic.
- metoposcopical — relating to metoposcopy
- metrical psalm — a translation of one of the psalms into rhyming strict-metre verse usually sung as a hymn
- metropolitical — metropolitan
- microaerophile — An organism, especially an aerobic bacterium, that lives and thrives in environments low in oxygen.
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
- middle passage — the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.
- middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
- milieu therapy — a type of inpatient therapy, used in psychiatric hospitals, involving prescription of particular activities and social interactions according to a patient's emotional and interpersonal needs.
- mineral spring — a spring of water that contains a significant amount of dissolved minerals.
- mounted police — police who patrol on horseback
- multi-part key — compound key
- multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- multicomponent — Having, or affecting, multiple components.
- multiparameter — Having, or employing multiple parameters.
- multiple birth — a birth at which two or more children are born at the same time
- multiple drill — a drilling machine having a number of vertical spindles for drilling several holes in a piece simultaneously.
- multiple fruit — a fruit, such as a pineapple, formed from the ovaries of individual flowers in an inflorescence
- multiple store — chain store.
- multiple value — (database) (MU) A one-to-many relationship between entries in a database, for example a person may have an address field which spanned multiple records (with different indexes). Multiple values are a non-relational technique. MUs have recently been made available in DB2, despite the product being so heavily influenced by Codd's Laws of relational databases.