12-letter words containing p, a, c, e, m, n
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- marine corps — a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces trained for land, sea, and air combat, typically for land combat in conjunction with an amphibious or airborne landing, and whose commandant is responsible to the secretary of the navy.
- meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
- meclonazepam — A benzodiazepine derivative, similar in structure to clonazepam, with sedative and anxiolytic effects and antiparasitic activity against Schistosoma mansoni.
- micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
- 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 microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- municipalize — to make a municipality of.
- name capture — (reduction) In beta reduction, when a term containing a free occurrence of a variable v is substituted into another term where v is bound the free v becomes spuriously bound or "captured". E.g. (\ x . \ y . x y) y --> \ y . y y (WRONG) This problem arises because two distinct variables have the same name. The most common solution is to rename the bound variable using alpha conversion: (\ x . \ y' . x y') y --> \ y' . y y' Another solution is to use de Bruijn notation. Note that the argument expression, y, contained a free variable. The whole expression above must therefore be notionally contained within the body of some lambda abstraction which binds y. If we never reduce inside the body of a lambda abstraction (as in reduction to weak head normal form) then name capture cannot occur.
- nanocomputer — (architecture) /nan'oh-k*m-pyoo'tr/ A computer with molecular-sized switching elements. Designs for mechanical nanocomputers which use single-molecule sliding rods for their logic have been proposed. The controller for a nanobot would be a nanocomputer. Some nanocomputers can also be called quantum computers because quantum physics plays a major role in calculations. Richard P. Feynman is still cited today for his work in this area.
- non-empathic — of, relating to, or characterized by empathy, the psychological identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others: a sensitive, empathetic school counselor.
- nonempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- nonpolemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- normed space — any vector space on which a norm is defined.
- onomatopoeic — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
- outplacement — counseling and assistance in finding a new job, provided by a company for an employee who has been or is about to be dismissed.
- pan-american — of, relating to, or representing all the countries or people of North, Central, and South America.
- panchen lama — Tashi Lama.
- panspermatic — relating to panspermia
- paramagnetic — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
- payment card — A payment card is a plastic card which you use like a credit card, but which takes the money directly from your bank account.
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
- picrocarmine — a red powder containing carmine and picric acid which is used in staining processes
- pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- plenum cable — (hardware) Cable that can be (legally) installed in the plenum (the space between a ceiling and the floor above it). Such cable is (usually) teflon-coated so that it will not give off toxic fumes when burned. In some parts of the world such cable is required by law.
- pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
- pneumatocyst — the cavity of a pneumatophore.
- pneumococcal — a bacterium, Diplococcus pneumoniae, causing lobar pneumonia and associated with certain other diseases, as pericarditis and meningitis.
- predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- pro-american — in favour of or supporting America, its people, culture, etc
- prochein ami — next friend.
- pyromagnetic — (formerly) thermomagnetic (def 1).
- recompensate — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
- rose campion — a plant, Lychnis coronaria, of the pink family, having reddish purple flowers, and leaves covered with whitish down.
- scampishness — the quality of being scampish
- spin machine — an organization or group of people acting together to present news or information in a way that creates a particular desired impression
- supernaculum — a highly regarded liquor, to be drunk to the very last drop
- tape machine — a tape recorder.
- team captain — the captain of a sporting team
- uncomparable — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- uncomplacent — pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government.
- uncomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.