12-letter words containing n, i, m, p
- middle plane — middle distance (def 1).
- 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 pudding — a hot or cold pudding made by boiling or baking milk with a grain, esp rice
- 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.
- milman parry — Milman, 1902–35, U.S. classical scholar and philologist.
- 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.
- minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- minimal pair — a pair of words, as pin and bin, or bet and bed, differing only by one sound in the same position in each word, especially when such a pair is taken as evidence for the existence of a phonemic contrast between the two sounds.
- ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
- minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
- mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
- mis-position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- mis-shipment — a quantity of freight or cargo shipped at one time.
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- mishappening — Present participle of mishappen.
- misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
- misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- misrepresent — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
- misspellings — Plural form of misspelling.
- mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
- mole mapping — the procedure of using a digital camera to record the positions and appearances of moles on a person's body so that regular checks will detect any changes that might lead to skin cancer
- money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- monocropping — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
- monodisperse — (of a colloid) Having particles of (approximately) the same size.
- monographing — Present participle of monograph.
- monomorphism — a one-to-one homomorphism.
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- monophysites — Plural form of monophysite.
- monophysitic — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- monopolising — Present participle of monopolise.
- monopolistic — a person who has a monopoly.
- monopolizers — Plural form of monopolizer.
- monopolizing — to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
- monospecific — having or comprising a single species
- monostrophic — consisting of stanzas or strophes all having the same metrical structure.
- monosynaptic — having or relating to a sole synapse
- monotriglyph — (in the Doric order) any intercolumniation having one whole triglyph.
- montes pubis — mons pubis
- moss campion — cushion pink.
- mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.