14-letter words containing m, i, p
- detention camp — a compound where prisoners are detained temporarily, as pending determination of their legal status under immigration laws.
- diamond-shaped — rhombic
- diaphragm pump — A diaphragm pump is a pump in which a diaphragm is used to move a fluid.
- dicamptodontid — (zoology) Any member of the Dicamptodontidae.
- diffeomorphism — a differentiable homeomorphism.
- diplomatic bag — A diplomatic bag is a bag or container in which mail is sent to and from foreign embassies. Diplomatic bags are protected by law, so that they are not opened by anyone except the official or embassy they are addressed to.
- diplomatically — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- diplostemonous — having two whorls of stamens, with the outer whorl opposite the sepals and the inner whorl opposite the petals.
- direct primary — a primary in which members of a party nominate its candidates by direct vote.
- disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- disciplinarium — a scourge for flogging penitents
- disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- disimpassioned — calm; dispassionate.
- displenishment — the act of displenishing
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- dumping ground — dump (def 17).
- dumping-ground — dump (def 17).
- dynamic typing — (programming) Enforcement of type rules at run time as opposed to compile time. Dynamic typing catches more errors as run-time exceptions than static typing.
- eastern empire — the eastern part of the Roman Empire, especially after the division in a.d. 395, having its capital at Constantinople: survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in a.d. 476.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- eco-capitalism — the theory or practice of a free-market economy in which natural resources are regarded as capital and profits are partially dependent on environmental protection and sustainability
- edaphic climax — a localized climax community that may differ from the surrounding climax vegetation by reason of slightly differing soil type, exposure to sun and wind, drainage, etc.
- edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
- empathetically — In an empathetic way.
- emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
- empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
- empty calories — calories that are present in foods that have very little nutritive value: e.g. in alcohol or refined sugar
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- encompassingly — So as to encompass.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
- enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
- enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
- ensemble piece — a play involving no individual star but several actors whose roles are of equal importance
- ephemeris time — time that is based on the orbit of the earth around the sun rather than the axial rotation of the earth, one ephemeris second being 1⁄31 556 925.9747 of the tropical year 1900. It was used from 1960 to 1983 as an astronomical timescale but has been replaced by terrestrial dynamical time and barycentric dynamic time
- epidemiologist — A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.
- epigrammatical — Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram.
- epigrammatized — Simple past tense and past participle of epigrammatize.
- epigrammatizer — someone who epigrammatizes
- epistemologies — Plural form of epistemology.
- epistemologist — A person, especially a philosopher, who studies theory of knowledge.
- ergastoplasmic — relating to endoplasm that is associated with protein synthesis
- exceptionalism — The state of being special, exceptional or unique.
- exempli gratia — for the sake of example
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- experimentally — In the manner of an experiment.
- extemporaneity — the quality of being extemporaneous
- extrapyramidal — Relating to or denoting nerves concerned with motor activity that descend from the cortex to the spine and are not part of the pyramidal system.