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16-letter words containing a, n, t, i, p, l

  • hamiltonian path — Hamiltonian problem
  • happenstantially — (rare) By happenstance; occurring due to random chance.
  • health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
  • herpes genitalis — genital herpes.
  • heteropalindrome — Something that spells something else when reversed, a semordnilap.
  • hierophantically — In a hierophantic manner; in the manner of a hierophant.
  • horizontal plane — flat surface parallel to the horizon
  • hospital corners — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hospitalizations — Plural form of hospitalization.
  • hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
  • hyperventilation — excessively rapid and deep breathing.
  • hypoalimentation — insufficient or inadequate nourishment.
  • impenetrableness — The quality of being impenetrable.
  • implied warranty — a warranty not stated explicitly by the seller of merchandise or real property but presumed for reasons of commercial or legal custom (distinguished from express warranty).
  • in loco parentis — in the place or role of a parent.
  • in plain clothes — not wearing a uniform
  • in quadruplicate — in four identical copies
  • in quintuplicate — in five identical copies
  • in-law apartment — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
  • indispensability — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
  • indisputableness — The property of being indisputable.
  • inflationary gap — the excess of total spending in an economy over the value, at current prices, of the output it can produce
  • inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
  • installment plan — a system for paying for an item in fixed amounts at specified intervals.
  • instrument panel — Also called instrument board. a panel on which are mounted an array of dials, lights, and gauges that monitor the performance of a machine or device, as an airplane.
  • internal capsule — a broad band of white fibres near the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere
  • interoperability — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
  • interpretability — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
  • interpretational — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
  • interpretatively — In an interpretative manner.
  • intimate apparel — lingerie (sense 2)
  • intracytoplasmic — Located in the cytoplasm of a cell.
  • ion implantation — a method of implanting impurities below the surface of a solid, usually a semiconductor, by bombarding the solid with a beam of ions of the impurity.
  • ippolitov-ivanov — Mikhail Mikhailovich [mi-kah-eel mi-kahy-luh-vich;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel myi-khahy-luh-vyich] /mɪ kɑˈil mɪˈkaɪ lə vɪtʃ;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil myɪˈxaɪ lə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1935, Russian composer.
  • isle of portland — a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material. Pop (town): 12 000 (latest est)
  • japanese bobtail — any of a breed of domestic cat, originating in Japan, with a very short, fluffy tail, and a soft, silky coat often in three colors, white, black, and red
  • japanese gelatin — agar (def 1).
  • lagrangian point — one of five points in the orbital plane of two bodies orbiting about their common center of gravity at which another body of small mass can be in equilibrium.
  • laplace equation — the second-order partial differential equation indicating that the Laplace operator operating on a given function results in zero. Compare harmonic (def 4c).
  • large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
  • laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
  • leap in the dark — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
  • learner's permit — A learner's permit is a license that allows you to drive a vehicle before you have passed your driving test.
  • led page printer — LED printer
  • left parenthesis — (character)   "(". ASCII character 40. Common names: left paren; left parenthesis; left; open; paren (")" = thesis); open paren; open parenthesis; left parenthesis; left banana. Rare: so (")" = already); lparen; ITU-T: opening parenthesis; open round bracket, left round bracket, INTERCAL: wax (")" = wane); parenthisey (")" = unparenthisey); left ear. Paired with right parenthesis (")").
  • legal separation — judicial separation.
  • leptosporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a single cell, rather than from a group, and normally with specialized explosive spore dispersal
  • light adaptation — the reflex adaptation of the eye to bright light, consisting of an increase in the number of functioning cones, accompanied by a decrease in the number of functioning rods (opposed to dark adaptation).
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