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12-letter words containing p, i, l

  • milk pudding — a hot or cold pudding made by boiling or baking milk with a grain, esp rice
  • milliamperes — Plural form of milliampere.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
  • miracle play — a medieval dramatic form dealing with religious subjects such as Biblical stories or saints' lives, usually presented in a series or cycle by the craft guilds.
  • mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
  • misappraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
  • misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
  • mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
  • misportrayal — the act of portraying.
  • misspellings — Plural form of misspelling.
  • mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
  • mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
  • 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
  • monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
  • monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
  • monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
  • monopolising — Present participle of monopolise.
  • monopolistic — a person who has a monopoly.
  • monopolizers — Plural form of monopolizer.
  • monopolizing — to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
  • monotriglyph — (in the Doric order) any intercolumniation having one whole triglyph.
  • morphallaxis — Biology. the regeneration of a destroyed body part by the reorganization of its remaining cells.
  • morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
  • morphologist — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
  • mullein pink — rose campion.
  • multi-parity — of or relating to a multipara.
  • multi-pascal — An extension of Pascal-S with multiprocessing features. Used in "The Art of Parallel Programming", Bruce P. Lester, P-H 1993.
  • multicipital — (of a rhizome or root) producing several crowns
  • multipartite — divided into several or many parts; having several or many divisions.
  • multipathing — (computing) A network facility providing fault tolerance and load-spreading for network interface cards, each interface being assigned a static
  • multipicture — having or involving several pictures
  • multiplexers — Plural form of multiplexer.
  • multiplexing — having many parts or aspects: the multiplex problem of drug abuse.
  • multipliable — capable of being multiplied.
  • multiplicand — a number to be multiplied by another.
  • multiplicate — multiple; manifold.
  • multiplicity — a large number or variety: a multiplicity of errors.
  • multipotency — (cytology, developmental biology) The ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types.
  • multipresent — able to be present in several places simultaneously
  • multiproblem — characterized by or experiencing several problems
  • multiproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • multipronged — having or composed of several prongs: a multipronged electric plug.
  • multipurpose — able to be used for several purposes: a multipurpose lawn spray.
  • multiseptate — having several septa or chambers
  • multispecies — of, relating to or affecting several species
  • municipalism — the principle or system of home rule by a municipality.
  • municipality — a city, town, or other district possessing corporate existence and usually its own local government.
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