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