12-letter words containing e, l, i, p, s
- caterpillers — Archaic spelling of caterpillarst; Plural form of caterpiller.
- ceroplastics — the art of wax modelling
- chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
- chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
- chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- chisel point — a nail or spike with the point formed by two flat inclined sides meeting at a sharp angle.
- chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
- cleptobiosis — an ecological relationship in which members of one species, as of ants, steal food from another.
- clipper ship — clipper (def 4).
- clipper-ship — a person or thing that clips or cuts.
- close-lipped — not talking or revealing much
- cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
- coleopterist — a person who studies the Coleoptera
- comma splice — comma fault.
- complaisance — deference to the wishes of others; willing compliance
- complections — Plural form of complection.
- complexifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complexify.
- complexities — The complexities of something are the many complicated factors involved in it.
- compliancies — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- complicities — Plural form of complicity.
- compressible — If something is compressible, its volume can change when pressure is applied to it.
- compulsative — compulsory
- compulsively — compelling; compulsory.
- compulsories — Plural form of compulsory.
- copolymerise — Alt form copolymerize.
- corporealism — materialism
- corporealist — a materialist
- cosmopolises — Plural form of cosmopolis.
- cosmopolites — Plural form of cosmopolite.
- cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
- curtail step — the step or steps at the foot of a flight of stairs, widened at one or both ends and terminated with a scroll
- curtail-step — a horizontal, spiral termination to the lower end of a stair railing.
- cyclosporine — a drug, produced by a fungus (Tolypocladium inflatum), that suppresses the T cells that reject foreign tissue after an organ transplant without suppressing other cells that fight infections and cancer
- d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
- dead spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- death spiral — a period of continuous deterioration that leads ultimately to catastrophic failure or destruction
- decapitalise — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- depilatories — Plural form of depilatory.
- depoliticise — Alternative spelling of depoliticize.
- deposit loan — a loan to cover the cost of a deposit on something such as rented accommodation
- deposit slip — a form that you fill in when you make a deposit into a bank account; it contains information such as the amount, whether it is a cash or cheque deposit, the account number and the date
- depositional — of or relating to a deposition
- depressingly — In a depressing manner.
- depressively — In a depressive manner.
- desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
- despairingly — given to despair or hopelessness.
- despiteously — in a despiteous or contemptuous manner
- despoliation — the act of despoiling; plunder or pillage
- despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.