11-letter words containing p, y, e
- insuperably — In an insuperable manner.
- inter-party — a social gathering, as of invited guests at a private home, for conversation, refreshments, entertainment, etc.: a cocktail party.
- intrepidity — resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.
- irreparably — not reparable; incapable of being rectified, remedied, or made good: an irreparable mistake.
- jackanapery — (dated, pejorative) The behaviour of a jackanapes.
- jersey pine — Virginia pine.
- jump jockey — A jump jockey is someone who rides horses in races such as steeplechases, where the horses have to jump over obstacles.
- keratophyre — a fine-grained soda trachyte
- keratoscopy — an instrument, as Placido's disk, for determining the symmetry of the curvature of the cornea.
- khyber pass — the chief mountain pass between Pakistan and Afghanistan, W of Peshawar. 33 miles (53 km) long; 6825 feet (2080 meters) high.
- kleptocracy — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- knotty pine — pine wood with many knots
- lady chapel — a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, attached to a church, and generally behind the high altar at the extremity of the apse.
- lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
- laparectomy — excision of strips of the abdominal wall and suturing of the wounds so as to correct laxity of the abdominal muscles.
- lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- led display — a flat-screen device in which an array of light-emitting diodes can be selectively activated to display numerical and alphabetical information, used esp in pocket calculators, digital timepieces, measuring instruments, and in some microcomputers
- lepidoptery — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- leptodactyl — leptodactylous
- liberty cap — a soft, conical cap given to a freed slave in ancient Rome at manumission of his servitude, used as a symbol of liberty, especially since the 18th century.
- linear type — 1. (theory, programming) An attribute of values which are used exactly once: they are neither duplicated nor destroyed. Such values require no garbage collection, and can safely be updated in place, even if they form part of a data structure. Linear types are related to the linear logic of J.-Y Girard. They extend Schmidt's notion of single threading, provide an alternative to Hudak and Bloss' update analysis, and offer a practical complement to Lafont and Holmström's elegant linear languages.
- lithophytes — Plural form of lithophyte.
- logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
- lower egypt — Arab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Capital: Cairo. Formerly (1958–71) United Arab Republic.
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lychnoscope — lowside window.
- lymph nodes — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
- lymphocytes — Plural form of lymphocyte.
- lymphokines — Plural form of lymphokine.
- lymphopenia — a reduction in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lyophilised — (of tissue, blood, serum, or the like) to dry by freezing in a high vacuum.
- lyophilized — Simple past tense and past participle of lyophilize.
- lyophilizer — Freeze-drying equipment; freeze-dryer.
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- maple honey — maple syrup.
- maple syrup — a syrup produced by partially boiling down the sap of the sugar maple or of any of several other maple trees.
- massey hope — (language, functional programming) A refinement of Hope+C by Nigel Perry <[email protected]> of Massey University, NZ, with improved syntax.
- master copy — an original copy, stencil, tape, etc, from which duplicates are made
- megacephaly — macrocephalic.
- memory chip — In a computer, the memory chip is the microchip in which information is stored.
- memory dump — (programming, operating system, jargon) (Or "core dump") A file on hard disk (traditionally called "core") containing a copy of the contents of a process's memory, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error or signal.
- memory span — the capacity of short-term memory, usually between 5 and 10 items
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- mephenytoin — A hydantoin used as an anticonvulsant.
- mesophyllic — (botany) Of or pertaining to the mesophyll of a leaf.
- mesotherapy — a cosmetic procedure in which minute doses of medication, vitamins, etc, are injected repeatedly into the mesodermal tissue under the skin to promote fat loss
- metaphysics — metaphysics.
- metapsychic — relating to metapsychics
- metoposcopy — the prediction of a person's fortune, or the reading of a person's character, through the examination of the forehead or face
- microphytes — Plural form of microphyte.