13-letter words containing m, i, p
- impulsiveness — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
- in-completion — the state of being incomplete; incompleteness.
- inclusion map — a map of a set to itself in which each element of a given subset of the set is mapped to itself.
- incompatibles — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incompetently — not competent; lacking qualification or ability; incapable: an incompetent candidate.
- incompossible — incompatible; mutually exclusive
- indian empire — British India and the Indian states ruled by native princes but under indirect British control: dissolved in 1947 and absorbed into India and Pakistan.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- inland empire — a region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, E of the Cascade Mountains, in E Washington, NE Oregon, N Idaho, and NW Montana.
- intemperately — given to or characterized by excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
- inter-company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- interepidemic — Also, epidemical. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
- interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
- interpermeate — to penetrate or pervade mutually or reciprocally
- interproximal — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- intertemporal — Describing any relationship between past, present and future events or conditions.
- isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
- isodimorphism — isomorphism between the forms of two dimorphous substances.
- it pitieth me — archaic inflection of 'pity'
- japanese mink — a dark-brown arboreal marten, Martes melampus, native to Japan, having a long body and bushy tail.
- jeune premier — the male juvenile lead in a play or movie.
- jumping genes — transposon.
- jumping mouse — any of several primitive, mouselike rodents of the family Zapodidae, having long hind legs, common in the woodlands of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
- kinematograph — cinematograph.
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
- lapsus calami — a slip of the pen.
- leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
- lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- lymphatolysis — destruction of lymphatic vessels or of lymphoid tissue.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- lymphocytosis — an abnormal increase in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
- lymphoid cell — a cell in the lymph glands that produces leukocytes.
- lymphomatosis — lymphoma spread throughout the body.
- lymphopoiesis — the formation of lymphocytes.
- lymphopoietin — (protein) A cytokine protein that has a function in T cell maturation.
- lymphotrophic — carrying nutrients from the lymph to the tissues.
- machilipatnam — a city in E Andhra Pradesh state, in S India, on the Bay of Bengal: first British trading settlement 1611.
- macrocephalic — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- macroparasite — (biology) Any parasite that is visible to the naked eye.
- macropinacoid — a crystalline pinacoid which runs parallel to the longer horizontal axis
- macroscopical — Macroscopic.
- madeira topaz — citrine (def 2).
- magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)