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15-letter words containing i, n, p, l

  • spirit leveling — leveling according to the indications of a spirit level.
  • spit and polish — great care in maintaining smart appearance and crisp efficiency: The commander was concerned more with spit and polish than with the company's morale.
  • spratly islands — a widely-scattered group of uninhabited islets and reefs in the S South China Sea, the subject of territorial claims wholly or in part by six neighbouring nations
  • spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation
  • spring-cleaning — a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
  • sprinkler dance — a celebratory dance in which participants extend one arm and shake it to imitate the action of a rotating water sprinkler
  • starting pistol — a pistol used to give the signal to start a race
  • stilpnosiderite — a resinous variety of limonite with a black-brown colour
  • sublapsarianism — infralapsarianism.
  • subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
  • sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
  • sulphur springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • superexaltation — extreme or supreme exaltation; the act of superexalting; the process or condition of being superexalted
  • superficialness — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • superindividual — greater than the individual
  • superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
  • superior planet — any of the five planets whose orbits are outside the orbit of the earth, namely, the planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
  • supernaturalism — supernatural character or agency.
  • supernaturalist — supernatural character or agency.
  • supernaturality — the quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalism.
  • supernaturalize — to make supernatural; give supernatural character or qualities to.
  • supplementation — the act or process of supplementing.
  • supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
  • supporting role — acting: secondary part
  • supreme council — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
  • suspension file — a folder for documents that has protruding ends that can be hung over rails for storage
  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • talking picture — Older Use. a motion picture with accompanying synchronized speech, singing, etc.
  • telescopic lens — a lens that makes distant objects appear larger and brighter
  • ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • thermal printer — a printer that produces output by selectively heating a heat-sensitive paper (thermal paper) in patterns corresponding to the characters to be produced.
  • three-line whip — A three-line whip is a situation where the MPs in a political party are ordered to attend parliament and vote in a particular way on a particular issue.
  • tibetan spaniel — one of a breed of small alert dogs originally developed in Tibet, with a double coat of any color, well-feathered, pendent ears, and a plumed tail curled over the back.
  • to pull strings — If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
  • top-of-the-line — being the best and usually the most expensive of its kind: The company previewed its top-of-the-line carpeting.
  • topgallant sail — a sail or either of two sails set on the yard or yards of a topgallant mast.
  • trading capital — the total amount of money available for buying assets
  • transplantation — to remove (a plant) from one place and plant it in another.
  • treacle pudding — a sponge cake with syrup on top
  • trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
  • triple alliance — the alliance (1882–1915) of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
  • triple integral — an integral in which the integrand involves a function of three variables and which requires three applications of the integration process to evaluate.
  • tropicalization — to make tropical, as in character or appearance.
  • unacceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
  • unanticipatedly — in an unanticipated or unexpected manner
  • unapostolically — in an unapostalic manner
  • unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
  • uncompanionable — not companionable or friendly; antisocial
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