7-letter words containing l, p, s
- impalsy — (transitive) To strike with palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.
- implies — to indicate or suggest without being explicitly stated: His words implied a lack of faith.
- impulse — the influence of a particular feeling, mental state, etc.: to act under a generous impulse; to strike out at someone from an angry impulse.
- inclasp — enclasp.
- insculp — to carve in or on something; engrave.
- ipiales — a city in SW Colombia.
- japlish — Japanese spoken or written with a large admixture of English words and expressions.
- kalypso — Calypso (def 1).
- kelpies — Plural form of kelpie.
- keypals — Plural form of keypal.
- klephts — Plural form of klepht.
- klipdas — a rock hyrax, Procavia capensis
- lagopus — (obsolete) The ptarmigan (which bird was so called because its feet resemble those of a hare).
- lampers — lampas.
- lampost — Alternative spelling of lamppost.
- lapdogs — Plural form of lapdog.
- lappets — Plural form of lappet.
- lappish — Lapp (def 2).
- lapsang — noting a kind of souchong tea with a strong smoky flavor.
- lapsers — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- lapsing — Present participle of lapse.
- laptops — Plural form of laptop.
- larrups — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of larrup.
- lash-up — a hastily made or arranged device, organization, etc.
- le-lisp — Jerome Chailloux and Emmanuel St James, INRIA, France. A LISP dialect close to Common Lisp, lexically scoped, with a CLOS-like object system. Uses both packages and modules. "le-lisp: A Portable and Efficient Lisp System", J. Chailloux et al, Proc 1984 ACM Symp on Lisp and Functional Programming, ACM. Version v.16, available from ILOG, France.
- le-puys — a city in and the capital of Haute-Loire, in central France: cathedral.
- leapers — Plural form of leaper.
- legaspi — a seaport on SE Luzon, in the Philippines.
- lepidus — Marcus Aemilius [ee-mil-ee-uh s] /iˈmɪl i əs/ (Show IPA), died 13 b.c, Roman politician: member of the second triumvirate.
- leprose — leprous.
- leprosy — a chronic, mildly infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the peripheral nervous system, skin, and nasal mucosa and variously characterized by ulcerations, tubercular nodules, and loss of sensation that sometimes leads to traumatic amputation of the anesthetized part.
- leprous — Pathology. affected with leprosy.
- lepsius — Karl Richard [kahrl rikh-ahrt] /kɑrl ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1810–84, German philologist and Egyptologist.
- leptons — Plural form of lepton.
- lesseps — Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de [fur-dn-and muh-ree,, vee-kawnt duh French, fer-dee-nahn ma-ree,, vee-kawnt duh] /ˈfɜr dnˌænd məˈri,, viˈkɔnt də French, fɛr diˈnɑ̃ maˈri,, vi kɔ̃t də/ (Show IPA), 1805–94, French engineer and diplomat: promoter of the Suez Canal.
- limpets — Plural form of limpet.
- lineups — Plural form of lineup.
- linkups — Plural form of linkup.
- lipases — Plural form of lipase.
- 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.
- lockups — Plural form of lockup.
- loglisp — A version of Prolog implemented by Robinson in Lisp which allows Prolog programs to call Lisp and vice versa.
- logship — log chip.
- lookups — Plural form of lookup.