9-letter words containing l, e, p, s
- gillespie — John Birks [burks] /bɜrks/ (Show IPA), ("Dizzy") 1917–93, U.S. jazz trumpeter and composer.
- go places — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- gospelers — Plural form of gospeler.
- gospelise — evangelise
- gospelize — Preach the Gospel to; convert to Christianity.
- gospeller — a person who reads or sings the Gospel.
- grapplers — Plural form of grappler.
- graspable — to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
- graspless — (of a person's hand) having no grasp, and hence loose, relaxed, etc
- half step — Music. semitone.
- half-step — Music. semitone.
- halfpipes — Plural form of halfpipe.
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- headlamps — Plural form of headlamp.
- heelposts — Plural form of heelpost.
- heliopsis — a genus of herbaceous flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helistops — Plural form of helistop.
- hellspawn — (fantasy) A creature or creatures from Hell.
- help desk — A help desk is a special service that you can telephone or e-mail in order to get information about a particular product or subject.
- helplines — Plural form of helpline.
- helpmates — (British) Plural form of helpmate.
- helpmeets — Plural form of helpmeet.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- ideopolis — a city that is sustained primarily by intellectual enterprises such as education, the media, advertising, and design, with a highly educated workforce
- ill-spent — misspent; wasted.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- implosive — characterized by a partial vacuum behind the point of closure.
- imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- impulsive — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- jalapenos — Plural form of jalapeno.
- jaspilite — a metamorphic rock that has a high concentration of hematite and that resembles jasper
- kalispell — a city in NW Montana.
- kelp bass — a sea bass, Paralabrax clathratus, of southern California coastal waters, valued as a food and game fish.
- kerplunks — Plural form of kerplunk.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- la spezia — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Ligurian Sea: naval base.
- lampedusa — Giuseppe (Tomasi) di [joo-zep-pe taw-mah-zee-dee] /dʒuˈzɛp pɛ tɔˈmɑ zi di/ (Show IPA), 1896–1957, Italian novelist.
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampshell — Alternative form of lamp shell.