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12-letter words containing d, a, p, l

  • incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
  • indianapolisRobert (Robert Clarke) born 1928, U.S. painter of pop art.
  • indisposable — Not disposable.
  • indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
  • indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
  • interpleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of interplead.
  • interpleader — a party who interpleads.
  • interpolated — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
  • jeopardously — with risk or peril
  • kaleidophone — an instrument, invented by Professor Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), consisting of a light on a vibrating rod with a reflecting knob for exhibiting the effect of sound waves
  • 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.
  • lady-slipper — cypripedium
  • lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
  • lampadedromy — (in ancient Greece) a relay race in which the runners or riders carried a lighted torch
  • lampadomancy — a method of divination by studying the carbon deposits left by a burning lamp or candle
  • land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
  • landed price — the price when delivered
  • landing flap — a flap in the undersurface of the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, capable of being moved downward to increase either lift or drag or both, as for landing. Compare split flap (def 1).
  • landing page — a web page that a user is directed to after clicking on an external hyperlink, often a page designed especially for marketing purposes: Their landing page asks for your email address and automatically enters you into a $1,000 cash drawing.
  • landing ship — any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach.
  • landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
  • lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
  • lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
  • lapidicolous — living under stones
  • lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
  • ledger paper — a foldable paper with a smooth finish.
  • ledger plate — a strip of wood laid flat across the tops of studding as a support for joists.
  • leopard frog — a common North American green frog, Rana pipiens, having white-edged, dark oval spots on its back.
  • leopard lily — a tall lily, Lilium pardalinum, of California, having drooping, orange-red flowers with purple speckles, a yellow base, and recurved petal tips.
  • leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
  • leopard seal — a yellowish-gray, spotted seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, of the Antarctic.
  • leopardesses — Plural form of leopardess.
  • lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
  • lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
  • lesser panda — panda (def 2).
  • liar paradox — a logical paradox that results from consideration of statements of the form “This statement is false.” If the statement is true, then it is false, whereas if it is false, then it is true.
  • linen draper — a dry-goods merchant.
  • lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
  • liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
  • loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
  • london plane — a tall, hardy, widely spreading plane tree, Platanus acerifolia, of North America, having clusters of round, bristly fruit.
  • lope de vega — Lope [loh-pey,, -pee;; Spanish law-pe] /ˈloʊ peɪ,, -pi;; Spanish ˈlɔ pɛ/ (Show IPA), (Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
  • loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
  • lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
  • magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
  • malimprinted — (of an animal or person) suffering from a defect in the behavioural process of imprinting, resulting in attraction to members of other species, fetishism, etc
  • media player — Digital Technology. a portable electronic device or a software program that plays and stores digital audio or video files in various formats.
  • median plane — a vertical plane that divides an organism into symmetrical halves.
  • middle plane — middle distance (def 1).
  • mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
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