11-letter words containing m, i, p
- mucoprotein — a protein that yields carbohydrates as well as amino acids on hydrolysis.
- mudskippers — Plural form of mudskipper.
- mudspringer — mudskipper.
- multicampus — (of a university or organization) having multiple campuses or locations
- multicuspid — (in humans) a tooth with a single projection point or elevation; canine.
- multiparity — of or relating to a multipara.
- multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
- multiperiod — Relating to multiple periods.
- multiperson — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiphoton — involving several photons
- multipiston — having more than one piston
- multiplanes — Plural form of multiplane.
- multiplayer — of or relating to a video game, or a portion of a video game, in which more than one person plays at the same time in a shared game environment: a multiplayer game; multiplayer mode; a multiplayer experience.
- multiplexed — Simple past tense and past participle of multiplex.
- multiplexer — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
- multiplexes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of multiplex.
- multiplexor — multiplexing
- multipliers — Plural form of multiplier.
- multiplying — Present participle of multiply.
- multipop-68 — (operating system) An early time-sharing operating system developed in Edinburgh by Robin Popplestone and others. It was inspired by MIT' Project MAC, via a "MiniMac" project which was aborted when it became obvious that Elliot Brothers Ltd. could not supply the necessary disk storage. Multipop was highly efficient in its use of machine resources to support symbolic programming, and effective - e.g. in supporting the development of the Boyer-Moore theorem prover and of Burstall and Darlington's transformation work. It was not good at supporting the user programs which were then the standard fare of computing, e.g. matrix inversion. This arose from the fact that while the POP-2 compiler generated good code for function call (which is a lot of what layered systems like operating systems do) it did not generate efficient code for arithmetic or store access, because there was no way to police the generation of illegal objects statically. (Hindley-Milner type checking did not exist). Indeed, since many OS features like file-access were performed by function-call (of a closure) rather than an OS call requiring a context switch, POP-2 actually gained performance. Multipop68 was efficient primarily because the one language, POP-2 served all purposes: it was the command language for the operating system as well as being the only available programming language. Thus there was no need to swap in compilers etc. All store management was accomplished uniformly by the garbage collector, as opposed to having store management for the OS and store management for each application. There was a substantial amount of assembly language in Multipop68. This was primarily for interrupt handling, and it is difficult to handle this without a real-time garbage-collector.
- multipotent — having power to produce or influence several effects or results.
- multispiral — having several spiral coils
- mumpishness — the state or quality of being mumpish
- munich pact — the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.
- municipally — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- music paper — paper ruled or printed with a stave for writing music
- my pretties — a way of addressing a group of people
- mycophagist — a fungus-eating organism.
- mycoprotein — A food product derived from fungus, the basis of Quorn.
- mycotrophic — (of a plant) symbiotic with a fungus, esp a mycorrhizal fungus
- myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- myographist — a person who has expert knowledge of muscles
- mythopoesis — Creation of myth.
- mythopoetic — of or relating to the making of myths; causing, producing, or giving rise to myths.
- naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
- nemophilist — (rare) One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
- neopaganism — a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities.
- neopopulism — pertaining to a revival of populism, especially a sophisticated form appealing to commonplace values and prejudices.
- neuropodium — (zoology) The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium.
- nicol prism — one of a pair of prisms used to produce and analyze plane-polarized light in a polarizing microscope. Also called Nicol. Compare polarizer (def 1).
- nincompoops — Plural form of nincompoop.
- nominal par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
- nonemphatic — lacking emphasis, not emphatic
- nonphonemic — not phonemic
- normocapnia — (medicine) The presence of the normal amount of carbon dioxide in arterial blood.
- nudist camp — a resort where nudism is practiced
- numeric pad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
- nymphomania — abnormally excessive and uncontrollable sexual desire in women.
- oarsmanship — The skill of rowing a boat.