13-letter words containing p, m
- incompossible — incompatible; mutually exclusive
- indian empire — British India and the Indian states ruled by native princes but under indirect British control: dissolved in 1947 and absorbed into India and Pakistan.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- inland empire — a region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, E of the Cascade Mountains, in E Washington, NE Oregon, N Idaho, and NW Montana.
- intemperately — given to or characterized by excessive or immoderate indulgence in alcoholic beverages.
- inter-company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- interepidemic — Also, epidemical. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
- interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
- interpermeate — to penetrate or pervade mutually or reciprocally
- interproximal — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- intertemporal — Describing any relationship between past, present and future events or conditions.
- isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
- isodimorphism — isomorphism between the forms of two dimorphous substances.
- it pitieth me — archaic inflection of 'pity'
- japanese mink — a dark-brown arboreal marten, Martes melampus, native to Japan, having a long body and bushy tail.
- japanese plum — a small tree, Prunus salicina, native to China, bearing edible yellowish fruit.
- jeune premier — the male juvenile lead in a play or movie.
- jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
- jumping genes — transposon.
- jumping mouse — any of several primitive, mouselike rodents of the family Zapodidae, having long hind legs, common in the woodlands of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- kapellmeister — a choirmaster.
- kaufmann peak — former name of Lenin Peak.
- kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
- kinematograph — cinematograph.
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
- lambda prolog — (language) An extension of standard Prolog defined by Dale A. Miller and Gopalan Nadathur in 1986, in which terms are strongly typed lambda terms. Clauses are higher order hereditary Harrop formulas. The main novelties are universal quantification on goals and implication. The Prolog/Mali compiler compiles Lambda Prolog for the MALI abstract memory system. Mailing list: [email protected]
- lamellaphones — Plural form of lamellaphone.
- lamp standard — a tall metal or concrete post supporting a street lamp
- lapsus calami — a slip of the pen.
- leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
- lepton number — in a process involving elementary particles, the total number of leptons minus the total number of antileptons.
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
- lord temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
- lumbar plexus — a network of nerves originating in the spinal nerves of the midback region and innervating the pelvic area, the front of the legs, and part of the feet.
- lump of sugar — lump1 (def 4).
- lump together — If a number of different people or things are lumped together, they are considered as a group rather than separately.
- lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- lymphatolysis — destruction of lymphatic vessels or of lymphoid tissue.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- lymphocytosis — an abnormal increase in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
- lymphoid cell — a cell in the lymph glands that produces leukocytes.
- lymphomatosis — lymphoma spread throughout the body.
- lymphopoiesis — the formation of lymphocytes.
- lymphopoietin — (protein) A cytokine protein that has a function in T cell maturation.
- lymphosarcoma — a malignant tumor in lymphatic tissue, caused by the growth of abnormal lymphocytes.
- lymphotrophic — carrying nutrients from the lymph to the tissues.