12-letter words containing p, c, e
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- landed price — the price when delivered
- laparoscopes — Plural form of laparoscope.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
- lay preacher — a preacher who is not a member of the clergy
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- leper colony — a place where people who have leprosy live in quarantine
- leptocephali — Plural form of leptocephalus.
- leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
- lesser scaup — a diving duck, Aythya marila, of Europe and America, having a black-and-white plumage in the male
- leucopoiesis — the formation and development of white blood cells.
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- lickspittles — Plural form of lickspittle.
- line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
- linear space — vector space.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
- loop reactor — A loop reactor is a reactor in which the material is pumped round one or more vessels or stages in a continuous process.
- lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
- luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- mac playmate — (games) An early (~1985) example of a pornographic computer game. Mac Playmate runs on the Macintosh and involves trying to stimulate a simulated woman to orgasm by applying various implements to her erogenous zones.
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- magic carpet — flying rug in fantasy stories
- magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
- make-up case — a case in which cosmetics are kept
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- 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.
- market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
- marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- masterpieces — Plural form of masterpiece.
- 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.
- megacephalic — macrocephalic.
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
- metacomputer — an interconnected and balanced set of computers that operate as a single unit
- metaleptical — metaleptic
- metaphorical — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapolitics — political theory: often used derogatorily