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12-letter words containing n, i, m, p, o

  • lollipop man — (in Britain) a person who stops traffic by holding up a circular sign on a pole to allow children to cross a road safely
  • looping mill — a rolling mill for bar stock, wire, and the like, having the successive stands side by side so that the metal forms a loop in passing from stand to stand.
  • lymphangioma — a benign tumor composed of dilated and newly formed lymph vessels.
  • machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
  • magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
  • magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
  • main-topmast — the mast next above the main lower mast.
  • main-topsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
  • malapportion — to apportion improperly or unfairly (voting districts, a legislature, etc.)
  • malpositions — Plural form of malposition.
  • manipulation — the act of manipulating.
  • manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
  • manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
  • marconigraph — (dated) wireless telegraph.
  • marimbaphone — (obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba but with steel keys instead of wood, developed in early 20th century United States.
  • 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.
  • master point — a point awarded to a bridge player who has won or placed in an officially recognized tournament.
  • media person — a person who works in the mass media
  • median point — centroid (def 2).
  • meeting post — a timber with a chamfer at the outer edge of a lock gate that fits against the meeting post of another lock gate.
  • melanotropin — MSH.
  • mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
  • mesopotamian — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
  • metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
  • microcopying — the act of copying onto microfilm
  • micropayment — A very small payment made each time a user accesses an Internet page or service.
  • microphonics — (electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
  • microphoning — Present participle of microphone.
  • 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.
  • microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
  • microprinted — printed in microprint
  • mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
  • millilampson — /mil'*-lamp"sn/ A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer of the PDP-11) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.
  • minicomputer — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
  • minor planet — asteroid (def 1).
  • mirror plant — a shrub, Coprosma repens, of the madder family, native to New Zealand and cultivated in warm regions, having glossy, often variegated leaves.
  • mis-position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
  • misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
  • misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  • misoperation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
  • mispronounce — Pronounce (a word) incorrectly.
  • mobile phone — any wireless telephone that operates over a relatively large area, as a cell phone or PCS phone.
  • mole mapping — the procedure of using a digital camera to record the positions and appearances of moles on a person's body so that regular checks will detect any changes that might lead to skin cancer
  • money spider — any of certain small shiny brownish spiders of the family Linyphiidae
  • monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
  • monocropping — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
  • monodelphian — any placental mammal that is a member of the group Monodelphia
  • monodisperse — (of a colloid) Having particles of (approximately) the same size.
  • monographing — Present participle of monograph.
  • monomorphism — a one-to-one homomorphism.
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