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11-letter words containing m, a, c, p

  • prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
  • problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • proclaimant — someone who proclaims
  • proctodaeum — proctodeum.
  • project mac — (project)   A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
  • psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • pump-action — (of a shotgun or rifle) having an action that extracts the empty case, loads, and cocks the piece by means of a hand-operated lever that slides backward and forward; slide-action.
  • pyramidical — pyramidal.
  • replacement — the act of replacing.
  • rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
  • roman peace — the establishment and maintenance of peace by armed force.
  • roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
  • sample case — a handheld container of samples of products used by a salesperson to show potential customers what is available
  • scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
  • scopolamine — a colorless, syrupy, water-soluble alkaloid, C 1 7 H 2 1 NO 4 , obtained from certain plants of the nightshade family, used chiefly as a sedative and mydriatic and to alleviate the symptoms of motion sickness.
  • scrap metal — discarded metal
  • scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
  • seismic gap — the part of an active fault that has experienced little or no seismic activity for a long period, indicating the buildup of stresses that are useful in predicting earthquakes.
  • semiplastic — imperfectly plastic; in a state between rigidity and plasticity.
  • septicaemia — the invasion and persistence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood-stream.
  • sky compass — a device for taking a bearing by means of polarized sunlight when the sun is invisible.
  • sparagmatic — denoting a type of Precambrian rock found in Scandinavia
  • spasmolytic — of or noting spasmolysis.
  • spectrogram — a representation or photograph of a spectrum.
  • speechmaker — a person who delivers speeches.
  • spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
  • spermatoxic — (of a substance) toxic to spermatozoa.
  • spermicidal — that kills sperm
  • spodomantic — relating to spodomancy
  • static dump — a transfer of the contents of computer memory made at a time when the process is guaranteed to be inactive, as at the end of a routine.
  • stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
  • sub-company — subsidiary company.
  • summer camp — a camp, especially one for children during the summer, providing facilities for sleeping and eating, and usually for handicrafts, sports, etc.
  • supremacist — a person who believes in or advocates the supremacy of a particular group, especially a racial group: a white supremacist.
  • sympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
  • symptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
  • t & c’s — terms and conditions
  • tennis camp — a camp that people go to in order to play and be taught tennis
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • thatch palm — any of several fan palms, especially of the genera Sabal, Thrinax, or Coccothrinax, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
  • tomographic — relating to tomography
  • tonic spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
  • uncompacted — not compacted
  • uncompanied — unaccompanied
  • uncompliant — complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
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