12-letter words containing m, p, e
- media person — a person who works in the mass media
- media player — Digital Technology. a portable electronic device or a software program that plays and stores digital audio or video files in various formats.
- median plane — a vertical plane that divides an organism into symmetrical halves.
- median point — centroid (def 2).
- 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.
- meet up with — see socially
- 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.
- megacephalic — macrocephalic.
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
- melanotropin — MSH.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- memphremagog — Lake, a lake on the boundary between the U.S. and Canada, between N Vermont and S Quebec. 30 miles (48 km) long.
- mephibosheth — a son of Jonathan, and the grandson of Saul. II Sam 4:4.
- meroplankton — a floating mass of eggs and larvae of organisms that are nektonic or benthic in their adult stage; temporary plankton.
- mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- mesomorphous — mesomorphic
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
- metacomputer — an interconnected and balanced set of computers that operate as a single unit
- metal polish — cleaning fluid designed to clean, polish or add shine to metal
- metaleptical — metaleptic
- metallograph — a microscope for observing the microstructure of metals.
- metallophone — any musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of metal bars that may either be struck by hammers operated manually or played with a keyboard.
- 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
- metamorphize — (transitive) To transform or change; metamorphose.
- metamorphose — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metamorphous — metamorphic.
- metaphorical — 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).
- 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
- metempirical — beyond or outside the field of experience.
- meteorograph — an instrument for automatically recording various meteorological conditions, as barometric pressure and temperature, at the same time.
- methyl group — the univalent group CH 3 −, derived from methane.
- metric space — a space with a metric defined on it.
- metropolises — any large, busy city.
- metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
- microamperes — Plural form of microampere.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microcephaly — having a head with a small braincase.
- microchipped — Simple past tense and past participle of microchip.