10-letter words containing m, i, p
- complicant — (of the elytra of a beetle) overlapping
- complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
- complicity — Complicity is involvement with other people in an illegal activity or plan.
- compliment — A compliment is a polite remark that you say to someone to show that you like their appearance, appreciate their qualities, or approve of what they have done.
- compluvium — an unroofed space over the atrium in a Roman house, through which rain fell and was collected
- composited — Simple past tense and past participle of composite.
- composites — Plural form of composite.
- compositor — A compositor is a person who arranges the text and pictures of a book, magazine, or newspaper before it is printed.
- composting — the activity or practice of converting garden and kitchen waste to compost
- comprising — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- comprizing — Present participle of comprize.
- compromise — A compromise is a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of other people.
- compromize — Misspelling of compromise.
- compulsion — A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
- compulsive — You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary.
- compursion — the act of contracting the mouth into a small rounded shape
- coppermine — river in Nunavut & Northwest Territories, Canada, flowing northwest into the Arctic Ocean: 525 mi (845 km)
- cosmopolis — an international city
- cramp iron — a piece of iron with bent ends for holding together building stones or the like.
- cream pail — an open bowl of silver having a ladle or spoon for serving cream.
- crippledom — the state of being crippled
- crumplings — crumpling or folding actions
- cyclic amp — cyclic adenosine monophosphate: a constituent of biological cells, responsible for triggering processes that are dependent on hormones
- cyclic gmp — a cyclic anhydride of guanosine monophosphate formed from guanosine triphosphate by the action of guanylate cyclase: in cellular metabolism, it acts as a second messenger associated with increased cell division and growth.
- damp squib — You can describe something such as an event or a performance as a damp squib when it is expected to be interesting, exciting, or impressive, but fails to be any of these things.
- decompiler — (computer science) A computer program performing the reverse operation to that of a compiler.
- deemphasis — Alternative spelling of de-emphasis.
- deep magic — [possibly from C. S. Lewis's "Narnia" books] An awesomely arcane technique central to a program or system, especially one neither generally published nor available to hackers at large (compare black art); one that could only have been composed by a true wizard. Compiler optimisation techniques and many aspects of OS design used to be deep magic; many techniques in cryptography, signal processing, graphics, and AI still are. Compare heavy wizardry. Especially found in comments of the form "Deep magic begins here.". Compare voodoo programming.
- delphinium — A delphinium is a garden plant which has a tall stem with blue flowers growing up it.
- demimetope — the space between the end of a Doric frieze and the first triglyph.
- demirepdom — the world or society of demireps
- despotisms — Plural form of despotism.
- diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- diaphragms — Plural form of diaphragm.
- diatropism — a response of plants or parts of plants to an external stimulus by growing at right angles to the direction of the stimulus
- dimorphism — Zoology. the occurrence of two forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species. Compare sexual dimorphism.
- dimorphite — a mineral, arsenic sulfide, As 4 S 3 , yellow-orange in color and similar in its properties to orpiment.
- dimorphous — having two forms.
- dimplement — the state of being dimpled
- dipchemeng — Diploma in Chemical Engineering
- diphenamid — a selective preemergence herbicide, C 16 H 17 ON, used to control weed growth on lawns and various croplands.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- dipsomania — an irresistible, typically periodic craving for alcoholic drink.
- diremption — a sharp division into two parts; disjunction; separation.
- discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
- disempower — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disimprove — (transitive, rare) to make worse.
- dispermous — having two seeds.
- displuming — Present participle of displume.