12-letter words containing p, i, e, c, t
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- leptocephali — Plural form of leptocephalus.
- leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
- lickspittles — Plural form of lickspittle.
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
- luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- 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.
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
- 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.
- metabotropic — Describing a neurotransmitter or cell receptor whose action is mediated by metabolic functions (e.g. enzyme activation).
- 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
- metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
- metempirical — beyond or outside the field of experience.
- metric space — a space with a metric defined on it.
- micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
- micropipette — a very slender pipette for transferring or measuring minute amounts of fluid, microorganisms, etc.
- microprinted — printed in microprint
- micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
- minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- mips project — Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- mucopeptides — Plural form of mucopeptide.
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- multipicture — having or involving several pictures
- multiplicate — multiple; manifold.
- multipotency — (cytology, developmental biology) The ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types.
- multispecies — of, relating to or affecting several species
- mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
- mycoproteins — Plural form of mycoprotein.
- nanoparticle — a microscopic particle of matter that is measured on the nanoscale, usually one that measures less than 100 nanometers.
- neoanthropic — neanthropic.
- nephelinitic — containing or resembling nephelinite, pertaining to nephelinite
- nephropathic — characterized by or relating to nephropathy
- nepotistical — Nepotistic.
- neuroleptics — Plural form of neuroleptic.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.