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12-letter words containing n, m, p

  • microphonics — (electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
  • microphoning — Present participle of microphone.
  • microphonism — a usually undesirable property of some electronic circuits or components in which mechanical vibrations of a component affect the signal being transmitted through the circuit.
  • microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
  • microprinted — printed in microprint
  • 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.
  • modus ponens — the principle that whenever a conditional statement and its antecedent are given to be true its consequent may be validly inferred, as in if it's Tuesday this must be Belgium and it's Tuesday so this must be Belgium
  • 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
  • mona passage — a strait between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. 80 miles (129 km) wide.
  • monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
  • mond process — a process for obtaining nickel by heating the ore in carbon monoxide to produce nickel carbonyl vapour, which is then decomposed at a higher temperature to yield the metal
  • money expert — someone knowledgeable about money, esp ways to save money
  • money player — a person who performs best under pressure, especially in a competitive situation.
  • money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
  • money supply — the sum of demand or checking-account deposits and currency in circulation.
  • 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.
  • monopetalous — gamopetalous.
  • monophthongs — Plural form of monopthong.
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