8-letter words containing a, p, l, i
- klaipeda — a seaport in NW Lithuania, on the Baltic.
- ladyship — (often initial capital letter) the form used in speaking of or to a woman having the title of Lady (usually preceded by her or your).
- lalitpur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- lamp oil — kerosene.
- lampions — Plural form of lampion.
- lampyrid — any of several beetles of the family Lampyridae, comprising the fireflies.
- landskip — landscape.
- landslip — the downward falling or sliding of a mass of soil, detritus, or rock on or from a steep slope.
- lap link — a chain link for joining two lengths of chain, having a split in one end so that it can be opened to receive other links and then closed again.
- lap-size — of a size to fit the lap: a lap-size chessboard.
- lapactic — purgative; cathartic.
- lapidary — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidate — to pelt with stones.
- lapidify — To become stone or stony.
- lapidist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapillus — a small stony particle ejected from a volcano.
- lapsible — liable to lapse.
- lapwings — Plural form of lapwing.
- lard pig — a large type of pig used principally for lard
- lempiras — Plural form of lempira.
- leopardi — Count Giacomo [jah-kuh-moh;; Italian jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kəˌmoʊ;; Italian ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1798–1837, Italian poet.
- lifespan — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- lily pad — the large, floating leaf of a water lily.
- lin piao — Lin Biao.
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- linkspan — a hinged bridge on a quay, used to move vehicles on or off a vessel
- lip balm — salve for the lips
- lip-read — to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- lipaemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- lipaemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- liparite — a light-coloured, igneous rock made of quartz
- lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
- lipogram — a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
- lipoidal — resembling fat; fatty
- lipomata — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lippmann — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1845–1921, French physicist: Nobel Prize 1908.
- lisptalk — "Concurrent Programming Language Lisptalk", C. Li, SIGPLAN Notices 23(4):71-80 (Apr 1988).
- liu pang — 247–195 b.c, Chinese emperor: founder of the Han dynasty 202 b.c.
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- low-paid — job: poorly remunerated
- loxapine — A typical antipsychotic medication derived from dibenzazepine and mainly used to treat schizophrenia.
- maildrop — A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.
- malpighi — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
- maniples — Plural form of maniple.
- mariupol — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov.
- milarepa — (tool) A Perl BNF parser generator by Jeffrey Kegler <[email protected]>. Milarepa takes a source grammar written in a mixture of BNF and Perl and generates Perl source, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses the language described by the grammar. Milarepa is not restricted to LRn grammars, and the parse logic follows directly from the BNF. It handles ambiguous grammars, ambiguous tokens (tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and allows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammar may not be left recursive. The input must be divided into sentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixed distinction between terminals and non-terminals, that is, a symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side of a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a single Perl program. Version: Prototype 1.0. Posted to comp.lang.perl. The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.
- milk cap — any of a large genus (Lactarius) of basidiomycetous fungi that are brittle to touch and exude a milky liquid when crushed. Some are funnel-shaped and some parasol-shaped, and most, except for L. deliciosus, are inedible
- milliamp — One thousandth ( 10-3 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as mA.
- milpitas — a town in W California.