12-letter words containing s, p, e, c, m
- hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
- hypersarcoma — a growth of proud or fungous flesh
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
- implicatures — Plural form of implicature.
- implicitness — The state or quality of being implicit.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- incompetents — Plural form of incompetent.
- leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- make-up case — a case in which cosmetics are kept
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- marine corps — a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces trained for land, sea, and air combat, typically for land combat in conjunction with an amphibious or airborne landing, and whose commandant is responsible to the secretary of the navy.
- marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- masterpieces — Plural form of masterpiece.
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapolitics — political theory: often used derogatorily
- metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
- metric space — a space with a metric defined on it.
- microamperes — Plural form of microampere.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
- micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
- microscopies — Plural form of microscopy.
- mips project — Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
- misperceived — Simple past tense and past participle of misperceive.
- misperceives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misperceive.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- misprescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
- mispunctuate — to punctuate incorrectly.
- misspecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- mond process — a process for obtaining nickel by heating the ore in carbon monoxide to produce nickel carbonyl vapour, which is then decomposed at a higher temperature to yield the metal
- monospecific — having or comprising a single species
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- mucopeptides — Plural form of mucopeptide.
- mucoproteins — Plural form of mucoprotein.
- multispecies — of, relating to or affecting several species
- museum piece — something suitable for keeping and exhibiting in a museum.
- mustache cup — a cup having a straight piece inside, just below the rim, for holding back a man's mustache while he is drinking.
- mycoparasite — a parasitic fungus whose host is another fungus.
- mycoproteins — Plural form of mycoprotein.