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12-letter words containing m, i, s, p

  • master print — an original copy of a cinema film that can be used to produce other copies
  • masterpieces — Plural form of masterpiece.
  • mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
  • mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
  • matopo hills — the granite hills south of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where Cecil Rhodes chose to be buried
  • meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
  • media person — a person who works in the mass media
  • median strip — a paved, planted, or landscaped strip in the center of a highway that separates lanes of traffic going in opposite directions.
  • mediatorship — the position of a mediator
  • medium strip — median strip.
  • meeting post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
  • melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
  • mephibosheth — a son of Jonathan, and the grandson of Saul. II Sam 4:4.
  • mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
  • mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
  • mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
  • metal polish — cleaning fluid designed to clean, polish or add shine to metal
  • metamorphism — Geology. a change in the structure or constitution of a rock due to natural agencies, as pressure and heat, especially when the rock becomes harder and more completely crystalline.
  • metamorphist — a member of a group of 16th century Christians who believed that the humanly body of Jesus Christ metamorphosed into God during the Ascension
  • metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
  • metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
  • metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • metapolitics — political theory: often used derogatorily
  • metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
  • metric space — a space with a metric defined on it.
  • metropolises — any large, busy city.
  • microamperes — Plural form of microampere.
  • microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
  • microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
  • microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
  • microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
  • microphonics — (electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
  • microphonism — a usually undesirable property of some electronic circuits or components in which mechanical vibrations of a component affect the signal being transmitted through the circuit.
  • microphysics — the branch of physics dealing with physical objects that are not large enough to be observed and treated directly, as elementary particles, atoms, and molecules.
  • micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
  • micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
  • microscopics — Any behaviour or characteristic observable at a microscopic scale.
  • microscopies — Plural form of microscopy.
  • microscopist — An expert at microscopy.
  • microscopium — a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying near Sagittarius and Capricornus
  • middle stump — the stump inside of the leg stump and the off stump; the second of the three stumps of a wicket.
  • mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • milliamperes — Plural form of milliampere.
  • millilampson — /mil'*-lamp"sn/ A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer of the PDP-11) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.
  • mine-sweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
  • minesweepers — Plural form of minesweeper.
  • minesweeping — (nautical) The detection and safe disposal of mines.
  • ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
  • mips project — Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
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