12-letter words containing m, u, s, i, p
- litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
- lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
- mains supply — electricity, water, or gas supplied to a building through wires or pipes
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- maspar unity — A translator from UNITY to MPL by Martin Huber, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Version 1.0.
- medium strip — median strip.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
- micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- 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.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- mobius strip — a continuous, one-sided surface formed by twisting one end of a rectangular strip through 180° about the longitudinal axis of the strip and attaching this end to the other.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- morris jesup — Cape, a cape of N Greenland, on the Arctic Ocean, 440 miles (710 km) from the North Pole: northernmost land point in the world.
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- mountaintops — Plural form of mountaintop.
- mucopeptides — Plural form of mucopeptide.
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- multi-pascal — An extension of Pascal-S with multiprocessing features. Used in "The Art of Parallel Programming", Bruce P. Lester, P-H 1993.
- multiplexers — Plural form of multiplexer.
- multipresent — able to be present in several places simultaneously
- multipurpose — able to be used for several purposes: a multipurpose lawn spray.
- multiseptate — having several septa or chambers
- multispecies — of, relating to or affecting several species
- municipalism — the principle or system of home rule by a municipality.
- museum piece — something suitable for keeping and exhibiting in a museum.
- musicianship — knowledge, skill, and artistic sensitivity in performing music.
- neurotropism — the quality of being neurotropic.
- nuptial mass — a special mass said at a wedding.
- ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- pearl primus — Pearl, 1919–1994, U.S. dancer, born in Trinidad.
- periostracum — the external, chitinlike covering of the shell of certain mollusks that protects the limy portion from acids.
- periselenium — the closest point of the orbit of a spacecraft to the moon
- perpetualism — a belief in the permanence of a given thing; the belief that a given thing (e.g. the world, a political system) will last forever
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- pityrosporum — a genus of fungi that live on the skin, esp that of the scalp and face, present in conditions such as dandruff and dermatitis
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- plumbaginous — containing graphite.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- pneumocystis — any protozoan of the genus Pneumocystis, esp P. carinii, which is a cause of pneumonia in people whose immune defences have been lowered by drugs or a disease
- poison sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus vernix (or Toxicodendron vernix), of swampy areas of the eastern U.S., having pinnate leaves and causing severe dermatitis when touched by persons sensitive to it.