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12-letter words containing p, o, l, i, m

  • limnophilous — (of animals) living in lakes or freshwater marshes
  • liposarcomas — Plural form of liposarcoma.
  • lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
  • loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
  • lollipop man — (in Britain) a person who stops traffic by holding up a circular sign on a pole to allow children to cross a road safely
  • looping mill — a rolling mill for bar stock, wire, and the like, having the successive stands side by side so that the metal forms a loop in passing from stand to stand.
  • lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
  • lymphangioma — a benign tumor composed of dilated and newly formed lymph vessels.
  • machtpolitik — power politics
  • magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
  • main-topsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
  • malapportion — to apportion improperly or unfairly (voting districts, a legislature, etc.)
  • malapropisms — Plural form of malapropism.
  • malpositions — Plural form of malposition.
  • manipulation — the act of manipulating.
  • manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
  • manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
  • matopo hills — the granite hills south of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where Cecil Rhodes chose to be buried
  • melanotropin — MSH.
  • melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
  • mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
  • metal polish — cleaning fluid designed to clean, polish or add shine to metal
  • 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).
  • metapolitics — political theory: often used derogatorily
  • metropolises — any large, busy city.
  • metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
  • microcephaly — having a head with a small braincase.
  • microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
  • microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
  • micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
  • milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
  • 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.
  • minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
  • mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
  • misportrayal — the act of portraying.
  • 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.
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