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12-letter words containing p, y, e

  • kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
  • kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
  • lady-slipper — cypripedium
  • lahore party — a modern sect, divided into an older group (Qadianis) and a newer group (Lahore party)
  • lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
  • lampadedromy — (in ancient Greece) a relay race in which the runners or riders carried a lighted torch
  • lamprophyres — Plural form of lamprophyre.
  • laryngophone — A type of contact microphone that absorbs vibrations directly from the wearer's throat.
  • laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
  • lay preacher — a preacher who is not a member of the clergy
  • leopard lily — a tall lily, Lilium pardalinum, of California, having drooping, orange-red flowers with purple speckles, a yellow base, and recurved petal tips.
  • leper colony — a place where people who have leprosy live in quarantine
  • lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • liberty pole — Also called liberty tree. American History. a pole or tree, often with a liberty cap or a banner at the top, usually located on a village green or in a market square, used by the Sons of Liberty in many colonial towns as a symbol of protest against British rule and around which anti-British rallies were held.
  • liberty ship — a slow cargo ship built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and having a capacity of about 11,000 deadweight tons.
  • lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
  • lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
  • lymph system — Anatomy, Zoology. the system by which lymph is returned from the cells to the blood and by which white blood cells are produced in response to inflammation or presence of antigens; in mammals, the system includes the lymph glands, vessels and sinuses through which lymph is carried, and lymphoid tissues, as bone marrow and the thymus.
  • lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
  • lyophilizate — A lyophilizate is a freeze-dried product.
  • mac playmate — (games)   An early (~1985) example of a pornographic computer game. Mac Playmate runs on the Macintosh and involves trying to stimulate a simulated woman to orgasm by applying various implements to her erogenous zones.
  • macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
  • magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
  • maple family — the plant family Aceraceae, typified by trees and shrubs having sweet sap, simple opposite leaves usually lobed or toothed, clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a double-winged nutlet, and including maples and the box elder.
  • massotherapy — treatment by massage.
  • media player — Digital Technology. a portable electronic device or a software program that plays and stores digital audio or video files in various formats.
  • metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
  • methyl group — the univalent group CH 3 −, derived from methane.
  • microcephaly — having a head with a small braincase.
  • micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • 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.
  • money expert — someone knowledgeable about money, esp ways to save money
  • money player — a person who performs best under pressure, especially in a competitive situation.
  • money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
  • money supply — the sum of demand or checking-account deposits and currency in circulation.
  • monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
  • monophysites — Plural form of monophysite.
  • movable type — type from which text is printed directly in which each character is on a separate piece of metal.
  • multipotency — (cytology, developmental biology) The ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types.
  • mumblety-peg — a children's game played with a pocketknife, the object being to cause the blade to stick in the ground or a wooden surface by flipping the knife in a number of prescribed ways or from a number of prescribed positions.
  • mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
  • mycoproteins — Plural form of mycoprotein.
  • myelopoiesis — (biology) The regulated formation of myeloid cells.
  • myringoscope — an instrument for examining the eardrum
  • myrmecophage — (biology) Anteaters, and other animals chiefly feeding on ants.
  • myrmecophagy — Ant-eating.
  • myrmecophile — An invertebrate or plant that has a symbiotic relationship with ants, such as being tended and protected by ants or living inside an ants' nest.
  • myrmecophily — symbiosis with ants
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