8-letter words containing m, p, a
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- memo pad — memorandum pad
- memphian — a native or inhabitant of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
- meneptah — Merneptah.
- mercapto — containing the mercapto group; sulfhydryl; thiol.
- mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
- mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
- mesopeak — the level of maximum temperature in the mesophere, at an altitude of about 30 miles (48 km).
- messapic — an Indo-European language that was spoken in what is now SE Italy and written with an alphabet derived from that of Greek.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- microamp — One millionth ( 10-6 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as \u00b5A.
- microcap — (US, finance) The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
- micropia — a defect of vision in which objects appear to be smaller than their actual size.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- milarepa — (tool) A Perl BNF parser generator by Jeffrey Kegler <[email protected]>. Milarepa takes a source grammar written in a mixture of BNF and Perl and generates Perl source, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses the language described by the grammar. Milarepa is not restricted to LRn grammars, and the parse logic follows directly from the BNF. It handles ambiguous grammars, ambiguous tokens (tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and allows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammar may not be left recursive. The input must be divided into sentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixed distinction between terminals and non-terminals, that is, a symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side of a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a single Perl program. Version: Prototype 1.0. Posted to comp.lang.perl. The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.
- milk cap — any of a large genus (Lactarius) of basidiomycetous fungi that are brittle to touch and exude a milky liquid when crushed. Some are funnel-shaped and some parasol-shaped, and most, except for L. deliciosus, are inedible
- milliamp — One thousandth ( 10-3 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as mA.
- milpitas — a town in W California.
- mind map — a diagrammatic method of representing ideas, with related concepts arranged around a core concept
- mindmaps — Plural form of mindmap.
- minicamp — A session run by a professional sports team to train particular players, or to test potential new players, before the main preseason training.
- minipark — pocket park.
- misadapt — to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly: They adapted themselves to the change quickly. He adapted the novel for movies.
- misapply — to make a wrong application or use of.
- mispaint — to paint badly or wrongly
- misparse — To parse incorrectly.
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misplant — to plant badly or wrongly
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- misshape — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- misspace — to space out wrongly
- misspeak — Express oneself insufficiently clearly or accurately.
- misstamp — to stamp badly
- mix tape — a recording on a cassette tape, CD, or digital medium, consisting of music or songs selected by a single person: My boyfriend made me the greatest mixtape for my birthday.
- mixtapes — Plural form of mixtape.
- modula-p — "Modula-P: A Language for Parallel Programming Definition and Implementation on a Transputer Network", R. Hoffart et al, IEEE Conf Comp Langs 1992.
- mokopuna — (NZ) In M\u0101ori culture, grandchildren, or sometimes children generally.
- moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
- momparas — Plural form of mompara.
- monocarp — a plant that dies after having once borne fruit.
- mopboard — baseboard (def 1).
- muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
- mud flap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
- mud-flap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mudflaps — Plural form of mudflap.
- mudspate — mudflow.
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- myopathy — any abnormality or disease of muscle tissue.