7-letter words containing l, i, s, p
- lipetsk — a city in the W Russian Federation, SSE of Moscow.
- lipides — any of a group of organic compounds that are greasy to the touch, insoluble in water, and soluble in alcohol and ether: lipids comprise the fats and other esters with analogous properties and constitute, with proteins and carbohydrates, the chief structural components of living cells.
- lipless — either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
- lipomas — Plural form of lipoma.
- lisping — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- lispkit — (language) A functional programming language designed by Peter Henderson with Lisp syntax. Designed for portability. The Lispkit implementation is an extension to Landin's SECD machine that supports lazy evaluation. See also Stack environment control dump machine.
- lithops — living stones.
- loglisp — A version of Prolog implemented by Robinson in Lisp which allows Prolog programs to call Lisp and vice versa.
- logship — log chip.
- ludship — a humorous or hurried form of 'lordship'
- lumpish — resembling a lump.
- lupines — Plural form of lupine.
- maclisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed at MIT AI Lab in 1966, known for its efficiency and programming facilities. MacLisp was later used by Project MAC, Mathlab and Macsyma. It ran on the PDP-10. It introduced the LEXPR (a function with variable arity), macros, arrays, and CATCH/THROW. MacLisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being Interlisp). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both.
- malpais — Southwestern U.S. an extensive area of rough, barren lava flows.
- milksop — a weak or ineffectual person.
- mispell — Misspelling of misspell.
- mispelt — Misspelling of misspelt.
- misplan — (transitive) To plan badly or incorrectly.
- misplay — a wrong or bad play.
- nipples — Plural form of nipple.
- nonslip — Designed to prevent slipping.
- oaklisp — (language) A portable object-oriented Scheme by K. Lang and Barak Perlmutter of Yale. Oaklisp uses a superset of Scheme syntax. It is based on generic operations rather than functions, and features anonymous classes, multiple inheritance, a strong error system, setters and locators for operations and a facility for dynamic binding. Version 1.2 includes an interface, bytecode compiler, run-time system and documentation.
- pailisp — (language) A parallel Lisp built on Scheme in 1986.
- paisley — a soft woolen fabric woven with a pattern of colorful and minutely detailed figures.
- palissy — Bernard [ber-nar] /bɛrˈnar/ (Show IPA), c1510–89, French potter, enameler, and author.
- palship — friendship
- palsied — paralyzed; unable to move or control certain muscles.
- parlies — small Scottish biscuits
- parulis — gumboil.
- pasquil — John, 1752–1835, English architect and city planner.
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- paylist — a list of people to be paid
- payslip — paper slip detailing wage payment
- pelasgi — the pre-Hellenic peoples who inhabited Greece and the islands and coasts of the Aegean Sea before the arrival of the Bronze Age Greeks
- pelisse — an outer garment lined or trimmed with fur.
- pensile — hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
- philips — one of the 12 apostles. Mark 3:18; John 1:43–48; 6:5–7.
- phillis — a feminine name
- philos. — philosopher
- phlomis — a plant that belongs to the genus Phlomis and family Labiatae or Lamiaceae
- phyllis — a name used in pastoral literature, as the Eclogues of Vergil, for a country girl or sweetheart.
- pilates — a system of physical conditioning involving low-impact exercises and stretches designed to strengthen muscles of the torso and often performed with specialized equipment.
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- pileous — hairy or furry.
- pilings — a mass of building piles considered collectively.
- pilotis — a column of iron, steel, or reinforced concrete supporting a building above an open ground level.
- pilsner — a pale, light lager beer.
- piously — having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- pipless — (of fruit) without any pips; seedless
- pistole — a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.