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14-letter words containing l, a, p, d, i

  • inland passage — Inside Passage
  • inside caliper — a caliper whose legs turn outward so that it can accurately measure inside dimensions, as the inside diameter of a pipe.
  • inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
  • iridopupillary — pertaining to the iris and the pupil.
  • isla de pascua — Spanish name of Easter Island.
  • island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
  • isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
  • issued capital — the shares of a company that have been sold or distributed
  • lady's-slipper — any orchid of the genus Cypripedium, the flowers of which have a protruding petal somewhat resembling a slipper: all species are reduced in numbers, some greatly.
  • latency period — Psychoanalysis. the stage of personality development, extending from about four or five years of age to the beginning of puberty, during which sexual urges appear to lie dormant.
  • lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
  • leopard lizard — any long-tailed lizard of the genus Gambelia, of the western U.S. and northern Mexico, having the body marked with spots and bars of dark or light brown or black.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • linen cupboard — airing cupboard
  • lipari islands — a group of volcanic islands under Italian administration off the N coast of Sicily: remains that form a continuous record from Neolithic times. Chief town: Lipari. Pop: 10 554 (2001). Area: 114 sq km (44 sq miles)
  • liquid compass — wet compass.
  • listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
  • lord spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
  • malapportioned — (of a state or other political unit) poorly apportioned, especially divided, organized, or structured in a manner that prevents large sections of a population from having equitable representation in a legislative body.
  • medigap policy — A Medigap policy is a private extra health insurance plan in the U.S. that provides coverage for medical expenses that are not or only partially covered by Medicare.
  • metoclopramide — a white crystalline substance, C 1 4 H 2 2 ClN 3 O 2 , used primarily in the symptomatic treatment of certain upper gastrointestinal tract problems, and as an antiemetic.
  • middle passage — the part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies: the longest part of the journey formerly made by slave ships.
  • middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
  • mind uploading — (application)   The science fiction concept of copying one's mind into an artificial body or computer.
  • municipal bond — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • myelodysplasia — (medicine) Any of various conditions characterized by the faulty or inadequate production of bone marrow or blood cells.
  • non-repudiable — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • noncomplicated — (esp of a medical condition or procedure) not involving complications
  • nonpalindromic — Not palindromic.
  • nonpredictable — Not predictable.
  • nonprejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • obedient plant — false dragonhead.
  • old-line party — either the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party
  • packed decimal — binary coded decimal
  • painted turtle — a freshwater turtle, Chrysemys picta, common in the U.S., having bright yellow markings on the head and neck and red markings on the margin of the carapace.
  • palacio valdes — Armando [ahr-mahn-daw] /ɑrˈmɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1938, Spanish novelist and critic.
  • palisades park — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • para-toluidine — a white, flaky, lustrous, very slightly water-soluble solid, C 7 H 9 N, the para isomer of toluidine, used in the manufacture of dyes, in organic synthesis, and as a reagent in tests for nitrite, lignin, and phloroglucinol.
  • paradigmatical — of or relating to a paradigm.
  • paradisiacally — in a paradisiacal way
  • paradoxicality — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
  • parallelepiped — a prism with six faces, all parallelograms.
  • parcel gilding — the gilding of only some areas or ornaments of a piece of furniture.
  • parti-coloured — having different colours in different parts; variegated
  • partially deaf — suffering from hearing loss; partly deaf
  • particle board — any of various composition boards formed from small particles of wood, as flakes or shavings, tightly compressed and bonded together with a resin.
  • particularized — individualized
  • payday lending — the practice of offering short-term loans at high rates of interest, on the agreement that the borrower will pay back the loan when he or she next receives a wage or salary
  • pedanticalness — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • pedestal basin — a wash-hand basin supported by a pedestal
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