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13-letter words containing l, i, t, p

  • ripple effect — a spreading effect or series of consequences caused by a single action or event.
  • ripstop nylon — a nylon fabric woven with a double thread approximately every quarter inch to prevent the expansion of small rips.
  • rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
  • satin slipper — a play (1925–28) by Paul Claudel.
  • scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
  • scripturalist — a literalist or translator obedient to the Scriptures
  • secret police — a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public.
  • selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
  • self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
  • selling point — a unique or advantageous feature that appeals to the prospective buyer of a service, product, etc.: A generous discount is the chief selling point of the book club.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • semipalmation — the state of being semipalmate
  • semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
  • septentrional — northern; boreal
  • septisyllable — a word made up of seven syllables.
  • serial rapist — someone who carries out a series of rapes
  • sesquiplicate — relating to or involving the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of given terms; i.e. the sesquiplicate ratio of given terms is the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of those terms
  • sexploitation — the exploitation of sex in films, magazines, etc.
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • shopping list — a list made by a shopper of items or goods to be bought.
  • sidesplitting — convulsively uproarious: sidesplitting laughter.
  • silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
  • simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
  • single parent — mother or father without a partner
  • single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
  • siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
  • skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
  • slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
  • slipper satin — a fine satin fabric with a mat finish
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • small capital — a capital letter of a particular font, the same height as the x-high letters.
  • solitary wasp — any of numerous wasps, as the sand wasps or mud wasps, that do not live in a community.
  • sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • space lattice — lattice (def 4).
  • spaghettilike — resembling spaghetti
  • spastic colon — a chronic condition of recurring abdominal pain with constipation or diarrhoea or both
  • spathiphyllum — any of various tropical plants of the genus Spathiphyllum, having a white or green spathe and a spike of fragrant flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental.
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
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