11-letter words containing p, a, r, m
- kymographic — Of or pertaining to a kymograph.
- labour camp — A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors.
- lagomorphic — Shaped like a hare.
- lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
- lamprophony — loudness and clarity of voice.
- lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
- lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
- laparectomy — excision of strips of the abdominal wall and suturing of the wounds so as to correct laxity of the abdominal muscles.
- lapilliform — shaped like a pebble
- lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lepromatous — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leprosarium — a hospital for the treatment of lepers.
- liposarcoma — (medicine) Any malignant tumour that originates in adipose tissue.
- lump hammer — a heavy hammer used for driving stakes or breaking stone
- lump labour — work done by self-employed workers in the building trade
- macrocarpas — Plural form of macrocarpa.
- macrographs — Plural form of macrograph.
- macrography — examination or study of an object with the naked eye (opposed to micrography).
- macrophages — Plural form of macrophage.
- macrophagic — Of or pertaining to macrophages.
- macrophylum — a group of languages that are of a higher order than a phylum
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- macrophytic — Relating to macrophytes.
- macropodous — (of a leaf) having a long stalk.
- macroscopic — visible to the naked eye. Compare microscopic (def 1).
- macrospores — Plural form of macrospore.
- madreporian — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- madreporite — a sievelike plate in certain echinoderms, through which water passes into the vascular system.
- magic paper — An early interactive symbolic mathematics system.
- magpie lark — a black-and-white pied bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, inhabiting areas near water in Australia and southern New Guinea.
- mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
- mainsprings — Plural form of mainspring.
- major party — a political party with enough electoral strength to periodically gain control of the government or to effectively oppose the party in power.
- major piece — a queen or rook.
- make up for — compensate
- malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
- malapropist — a person who regularly makes malapropisms
- malpractice — Law. failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows.
- mammography — x-ray photography of a breast, especially for detection of tumors.
- managership — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- mancipatory — relating to mancipation
- manila rope — rope made from Manila hemp.
- manipulator — a person who manipulates.
- manure heap — a pile of animal excreta, esp on a farm, kept for use as fertiliser
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- map-reading — the act or skill of interpreting the significance of a geographical map
- maple grove — a town in SE Minnesota.
- maple sugar — a yellowish-brown sugar produced by boiling down maple syrup.
- maple syrup — a syrup produced by partially boiling down the sap of the sugar maple or of any of several other maple trees.
- marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.