12-letter words containing l, p, a, t
- inner planet — any of the four planets closest to the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, or Mars.
- inoperculate — having no operculum.
- inspectional — Of or pertaining to an inspection.
- inspectorial — Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
- internuptial — Of, or related to intermarriage.
- interpellant — a person who interpellates; interpellator.
- interpellate — to call formally upon (a minister or member of a government) in interpellation.
- interplaying — Present participle of interplay.
- interpleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of interplead.
- interpleader — a party who interpleads.
- interpleural — situated between the pleurae
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interpolable — able to be interpolated, or suited to interpolation
- interpolated — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- interpolates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interpolate.
- interpolator — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
- interspatial — a space between things.
- interspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- interspersal — Interspersion.
- interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
- isapi filter — (web) A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
- isotopically — With regard to isotopes.
- itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
- jet airplane — jet plane.
- keep it real — avoid affectation
- keratoplasty — plastic surgery performed upon the cornea, especially a corneal transplantation.
- kinetoplasts — Plural form of kinetoplast.
- kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906.
- lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
- lahore party — a modern sect, divided into an older group (Qadianis) and a newer group (Lahore party)
- lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
- lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
- lamp trimmer — a sailor responsible for keeping the oil lamps of a ship burning brightly, especially the deck and navigation lamps.
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- land plaster — finely ground gypsum, used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
- laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
- laparotomize — to perform a laparotomy on.
- lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
- lappeenranta — a city in SE Finland.
- lateral lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- lateral pass — a short pass thrown or tossed parallel to the line of scrimmage or slightly backward from the position of the passer.
- launch party — a party that celebrates the launch of a new magazine, product, etc
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- ledger plate — a strip of wood laid flat across the tops of studding as a support for joists.
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
- leptocephali — Plural form of leptocephalus.