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12-letter words containing s, p, i, c

  • isotopically — With regard to isotopes.
  • joe six-pack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
  • kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
  • kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
  • king's peace — (in early medieval England) the protection secured by the king for particular people or places
  • kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
  • landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
  • laparoscopic — a flexible fiberoptic instrument, passed through a small incision in the abdominal wall and equipped with biopsy forceps, an obturator, scissors or the like, with which to examine the abdominal cavity or perform minor surgery.
  • lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
  • lapidicolous — living under stones
  • lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
  • leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
  • leucopoiesis — the formation and development of white blood cells.
  • lickspittles — Plural form of lickspittle.
  • line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
  • linear space — vector space.
  • lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
  • liposarcomas — Plural form of liposarcoma.
  • 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.
  • lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
  • living space — home: rooms, etc.
  • lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
  • machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
  • macrophysics — the branch of physics that deals with physical objects large enough to be observed and treated directly.
  • malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
  • mammaplastic — Of, or pertaining to, mammaplasty.
  • mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
  • manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
  • microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
  • microphonics — (electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
  • microphonism — a usually undesirable property of some electronic circuits or components in which mechanical vibrations of a component affect the signal being transmitted through the circuit.
  • microphysics — the branch of physics dealing with physical objects that are not large enough to be observed and treated directly, as elementary particles, atoms, and molecules.
  • micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
  • micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
  • microscopics — Any behaviour or characteristic observable at a microscopic scale.
  • microscopies — Plural form of microscopy.
  • microscopist — An expert at microscopy.
  • microscopium — a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying near Sagittarius and Capricornus
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