10-letter words containing m, r, p
- karyoplasm — nucleoplasm.
- kiloampère — one thousand amperes
- kymographs — Plural form of kymograph.
- kymography — The use of a kymograph.
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- lagomorphs — Plural form of lagomorph.
- lampadaire — a pedestal of the Empire period for a lamp or candelabrum.
- lamper eel — lamprey.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- laparotome — a cutting instrument for performing a laparotomy.
- laparotomy — incision through the abdominal wall.
- lemon drop — a lemon-flavored lozenge.
- limitrophe — (of a country or region) on or near a frontier
- limp wrist — a contemptuous term used to refer to a homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
- linear map — (mathematics) (Or "linear transformation") A function from a vector space to a vector space which respects the additive and multiplicative structures of the two: that is, for any two vectors, u, v, in the source vector space and any scalar, k, in the field over which it is a vector space, a linear map f satisfies f(u+kv) = f(u) + kf(v).
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- lump sugar — sugar in small blocks
- lumpsucker — A globular fish of cooler northern waters, typically having a ventral sucker and spiny fins; a lumpfish.
- lymphogram — A diagnostic image produced by lymphography.
- mabe pearl — a smooth cultured pearl cultivated in a hemispherical shape so that it has one flat and one convex surface.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macrocarpa — (NZ) The Monterey cypress.
- macrograph — a representation of an object that is of the same size as or larger than the object.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- macropores — Plural form of macropore.
- macroprism — a prism belonging to an orthorhombic crystal found between the macropinacoid and the unit prism
- macroscope — A wide-field imaging device.
- macrospore — megaspore.
- madrepores — Plural form of madrepore.
- madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- magstripes — Plural form of magstripe.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- mainpernor — a person who gives a guarantee that a prisoner will appear in court
- mainspring — the principal spring in a mechanism, as in a watch.
- malapropos — inappropriate; out of place; inopportune; untimely: a malapropos remark.
- mammograph — A machine for taking X-ray pictures of the breasts (mammaries).
- manuscript — the original text of an author's work, handwritten or now usually typed, that is submitted to a publisher.
- map turtle — any of several aquatic turtles of the genus Graptemys, as G. geographica, of the eastern and central U.S., usually having yellow stripes on the head and neck.
- mapinguari — Alternative form of mapinguary.
- mapinguary — A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
- march past — a parade or procession, especially of troops past a reviewing stand.
- march-past — a parade or procession, especially of troops past a reviewing stand.
- marco polo — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), c1254–1324, Venetian traveler.
- mareograph — marigraph.
- marigraphs — Plural form of marigraph.
- mark spitz — Mark (Andrew) born 1950, U.S. swimmer: winner of seven gold medals in 1972 summer Olympic Games.