12-letter words containing l, p, n
- rocker panel — body paneling below the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
- rocket plane — aircraft that launches rockets
- role playing — role-play used as a method of training or education
- role-playing — a method of instruction or psychotherapy aimed at changing attitudes and behavior, in which participants act out designated roles relevant to real-life situations.
- rolling plan — a plan which is designed to continue over a period of time and is subject to regular review and updating
- rotten apple — You can use rotten apple to talk about a person who is dishonest and therefore causes a lot of problems for the group or organization they belong to.
- royal pardon — release from punishment for an offence, granted by a monarch
- rubber plant — a plant, Ficus elastica, of the mulberry family, having oblong, shining, leathery leaves, growing native as a tall tree in India, the Malay Archipelago, etc., used as a source of rubber and cultivated in Europe and America as an ornamental house plant.
- run in place — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- saddle point — a point at which a function of two variables has partial derivatives equal to zero but at which the function has neither a maximum nor a minimum value.
- sailing ship — a large ship equipped with sails.
- saint paul's — a cathedral in London, England: designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
- saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
- salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
- saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
- salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
- saltpetreman — a supplier of saltpetre
- sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
- sankt pölten — a city in NE Austria, the capital of Lower Austria state. Pop: 49 121 (2001)
- scalp lotion — A scalp lotion is a liquid medication for the treatment of scalp conditions and disorders.
- scapulimancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- scapulomancy — divination of the future by observation of the cracking of a mammal's scapula that has been heated by a fire or hot instrument.
- school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
- schuman plan — the plan for establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, proposed by Robert Schuman, French political leader, in 1950.
- scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
- scorpion fly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- sea elephant — elephant seal.
- sea purslane — a small chenopodiaceous shrub, Halimione portulacoides, of salt marshes in Eurasia and parts of Africa, having oval leaves and inconspicuous flowers
- seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-concept — the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image.
- self-opinion — opinion of oneself, especially when unduly high.
- self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
- self-playing — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- self-priming — the powder or other material used to ignite a charge.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
- seropurulent — composed of or containing both serum and pus
- serpentinely — in a serpentine fashion
- shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
- shin splints — a painful condition of the front lower leg, associated with tendinitis, stress fractures, or muscle strain, often occurring as a result of running or other strenuous athletic activity, especially on a nonresilient surface.
- shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
- shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
- silicon chip — A silicon chip is a very small piece of silicon inside a computer. It has electronic circuits on it and can hold large quantities of information or perform mathematical or logical operations.
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
- simple simon — a simpleton.
- simple tense — a tense of verbs, in English and other languages, not involving the use of an auxiliary verb in addition to the main verb, as for example the past he drowned as opposed to the future he will drown
- simpleminded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.