11-letter words containing a, p, l, y
- inescapably — incapable of being escaped, ignored, or avoided; ineluctable: inescapable responsibilities.
- infraphylum — (taxonomy) A taxon below subphylum and above superclass.
- inseparably — In an inseparable manner.
- insuperably — In an insuperable manner.
- irreparably — not reparable; incapable of being rectified, remedied, or made good: an irreparable mistake.
- ithyphallic — of or relating to the phallus carried in ancient festivals of Bacchus.
- ithyphallus — an erect phallus
- kleptocracy — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- labiaplasty — (surgery) The moulding or shaping of the labia minora and/or labia majora.
- labor party — one of the chief political parties of Australia, generally supporting the interests of organized labour
- lady chapel — a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, attached to a church, and generally behind the high altar at the extremity of the apse.
- lamprophony — loudness and clarity of voice.
- lamprophyre — any dark intrusive rock in which dark minerals occur both as phenocrysts and as groundmass.
- laparectomy — excision of strips of the abdominal wall and suturing of the wounds so as to correct laxity of the abdominal muscles.
- laparoscopy — examination of the abdominal cavity or performance of minor abdominal surgery using a laparoscope.
- lapidifying — Present participle of lapidify.
- lawyer palm — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- lay baptism — baptism administered by a lay-person.
- led display — a flat-screen device in which an array of light-emitting diodes can be selectively activated to display numerical and alphabetical information, used esp in pocket calculators, digital timepieces, measuring instruments, and in some microcomputers
- leptodactyl — leptodactylous
- liberty cap — a soft, conical cap given to a freed slave in ancient Rome at manumission of his servitude, used as a symbol of liberty, especially since the 18th century.
- linear type — 1. (theory, programming) An attribute of values which are used exactly once: they are neither duplicated nor destroyed. Such values require no garbage collection, and can safely be updated in place, even if they form part of a data structure. Linear types are related to the linear logic of J.-Y Girard. They extend Schmidt's notion of single threading, provide an alternative to Hudak and Bloss' update analysis, and offer a practical complement to Lafont and Holmström's elegant linear languages.
- lipoatrophy — (medicine) The loss of subcutaneous fatty tissue.
- lithography — the art or process of producing a picture, writing, or the like, on a flat, specially prepared stone, with some greasy or oily substance, and of taking ink impressions from this as in ordinary printing.
- litholapaxy — the procedure of removing bladder stones by crushing them and extracting them through a catheter
- logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lycanthropy — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- lymph gland — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
- lymphangial — pertaining to the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphoblast — a large, metabolically active lymphocyte shortly before it enters into mitosis.
- lymphopenia — a reduction in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lyssophobia — a pathological fear of going insane.
- macrophylum — a group of languages that are of a higher order than a phylum
- mal du pays — homesickness.
- malacophily — pollination of plants by snails
- mammaplasty — (surgery) Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
- mammoplasty — reconstruction or alteration in size or contour of the female breast.
- manipulably — In a manipulable way.
- maple honey — maple syrup.
- maple syrup — a syrup produced by partially boiling down the sap of the sugar maple or of any of several other maple trees.
- mastoplasty — (surgery) Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
- maximaphily — the collection or study of picture postcards which depict a picture similar, or identical, to that on the stamp, and which also have a related postmark
- megacephaly — macrocephalic.
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- misapplying — Present participle of misapply.
- multiparity — of or relating to a multipara.
- multiplayer — of or relating to a video game, or a portion of a video game, in which more than one person plays at the same time in a shared game environment: a multiplayer game; multiplayer mode; a multiplayer experience.
- municipally — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- mycoplasmal — Of or pertaining to mycoplasma.