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11-letter words containing l, e, p, n

  • new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
  • nilpotently — In a nilpotent fashion.
  • nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
  • nitrophenol — any compound derived from phenol by the replacement of one or more of its ring hydrogen atoms by the nitro group.
  • nobel prize — any of various awards made annually, beginning in 1901, from funds originally established by Alfred B. Nobel for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and the promotion of peace; an annual award in economics was established in 1969 from private funds.
  • nonemployee — a person who is not an employee of a particular organization
  • nonparallel — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
  • nonparental — of or relating to a parent.
  • nonpersonal — Not personal.
  • nonplayable — Not playable.
  • nonpurulent — full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating: a purulent sore.
  • nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
  • nontemporal — not indicating time
  • north slope — the northern coastal area of Alaska, rich in oil and natural gas: so called because it is N of the Brooks Range sloping down to the Arctic Ocean.
  • np-complete — (complexity)   (NPC, Nondeterministic Polynomial time complete) A set or property of computational decision problems which is a subset of NP (i.e. can be solved by a nondeterministic Turing Machine in polynomial time), with the additional property that it is also NP-hard. Thus a solution for one NP-complete problem would solve all problems in NP. Many (but not all) naturally arising problems in class NP are in fact NP-complete. There is always a polynomial-time algorithm for transforming an instance of any NP-complete problem into an instance of any other NP-complete problem. So if you could solve one you could solve any other by transforming it to the solved one. The first problem ever shown to be NP-complete was the satisfiability problem. Another example is Hamilton's problem. See also computational complexity, halting problem, Co-NP, NP-hard.
  • nuclear sap — karyolymph
  • nucleophile — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
  • nucleoplasm — the protoplasm of the nucleus of a cell.
  • nullipotent — (mathematics, computing) Describing an action which has no side effect. Queries are typically nullipotent: they return useful data, but do not change the data structure queried. Contrast with idempotent.
  • numberplate — Alternative spelling of number plate.
  • nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
  • nympholepsy — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
  • nympholepts — Plural form of nympholept.
  • oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
  • old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
  • opalescence — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
  • open letter — a letter, often of protest or criticism, addressed to a specific person, but intended to be brought to public attention.
  • open policy — a continuous policy covering goods of a class subject to changes in volume, usually requiring periodic reports of values.
  • open prolog — (Prolog, language)   Prolog for the Macintosh by Michael Brady <[email protected]>.
  • openability — The quality of being openable.
  • operational — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
  • opportunely — appropriate, favorable, or suitable: an opportune phrase for the occasion.
  • orange peel — outer skin of an orange
  • outerplanar — (mathematics) Describing a graph having a planar embedding such that the vertices lie on a circle and the edges lie inside that circle.
  • outline map — a map which only provides very basic information so that more details can be added
  • outsleeping — Present participle of outsleep.
  • outspokenly — In an outspoken manner.
  • overexplain — to explain in too much detail
  • overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
  • overplanned — resulting from overplanning
  • pain relief — techniques concerned with preventing or reducing pain
  • painesville — a city in NE Ohio, on Lake Erie.
  • palaeontol. — palaeontology
  • paleobotany — the branch of paleontology dealing with fossil plants.
  • palestinian — a native or inhabitant of Palestine.
  • palladinize — to treat or cover (a surface) with palladium.
  • pallescence — the condition of being pallescent
  • palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
  • palmer land — the southern part of the Antarctic Peninsula.
  • palsgravine — the wife or widow of a palsgrave.
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