10-letter words containing l, a, p, n
- snow plant — a leafless, parasitic plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, of the pine forests of the Sierra Nevada in California, having a stout spike of bright red flowers, a thickly scaled stem, and a corallike mass of roots.
- soap plant — a Californian plant, Chlorogalum pomeridianum, of the lily family, the bulb of which was used by the Indians as a soap.
- solar pond — a pool with a bottom layer of salt water and top layer of fresh water, designed to capture solar radiation as a source of energy for generating heat or electricity.
- sophoclean — 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.
- spallation — a nuclear reaction in which several nucleons are released from the nucleus of an atom.
- spaniolize — to cause to become Spanish
- spankingly — in a spanking manner
- speakingly — in an eloquent manner
- sphenoidal — relating to the sphenoid bone
- spinal tap — procedure to draw fluid from spine
- spindleage — total number or capacity of spindles in a mill, area, etc.
- spiralling — Geometry. a plane curve generated by a point moving around a fixed point while constantly receding from or approaching it.
- splanchnic — of or relating to the viscera or entrails; visceral.
- splanchno- — the viscera
- splashdown — the landing of a space vehicle in a body of water, especially the ocean.
- splenative — relating to the spleen or spleenful
- split cane — bamboo split into strips of triangular section, tapered, and glued to form a stiff but flexible hexagonal rod: used, esp formerly, for making fishing rods
- spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
- spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
- spondaical — composed of spondees
- spongeable — able to be cleaned with a sponge
- sponsional — relating to, involved in or entering into a sponsion
- spoon nail — an abnormal condition in which the outer surfaces of the nails are concave; koilonychia.
- springdale — a city in NW Arkansas.
- springhalt — stringhalt.
- springtail — any of numerous minute, wingless primitive insects of the order Collembola, most possessing a special abdominal appendage for jumping that allows for the nearly perpetual springing pattern characteristic of the group.
- spun glass — blown glass in which fine threads of glass form the surface texture.
- staphyline — having a form resembling a bunch of grapes
- staple gun — a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
- stop plank — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sun parlor — a porch or room with many windows exposed to sunshine; sun porch; solarium.
- sun pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the sun, believed to be caused by the reflection of sunlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
- superclean — exceptionally clean
- superlunar — situated above or beyond the moon.
- superplane — an extremely large or fast aeroplane
- supplanted — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supplanter — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- suppliance — appeal; entreaty; plea; supplication: He knelt in an attitude of suppliance.
- suppliancy — suppliance2 .
- suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- supplicant — supplicating.
- supralunar — beyond the moon
- suprarenal — situated above or on the kidney.
- synaloepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- synaptical — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- tablespoon — a spoon larger than a teaspoon or a dessert spoon, used in serving food at the table and as a standard measuring unit in recipes.
- tail plane — horizontal stabilizer.
- tau lepton — an unstable lepton with a mass approximately 3500 times that of the electron. Symbol: T.
- telpherman — someone who operates or works on a telpher