8-letter words containing l, p, s
- lump sum — money: one-off payment
- lumpfish — any of several thick-bodied, sluggish fishes of the family Cyclopteridae, found in northern seas, having the pelvic fins modified and united into a sucking disk, especially Cyclopterus lumpus, of the North Atlantic.
- lupercus — an ancient Roman fertility god, often identified with Faunus or Pan.
- lycopsid — Any primitive plant of the division Lycopodiophyta.
- lysippus — flourished c360–c320 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- maniples — Plural form of maniple.
- maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- milepost — any of a series of posts set up to mark distance by miles, as along a highway, or an individual post showing the distance to or from a place.
- milksops — Plural form of milksop.
- milpitas — a town in W California.
- misapply — to make a wrong application or use of.
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misplant — to plant badly or wrongly
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- misspell — Spell (a word) incorrectly.
- misspelt — Simple past tense and past participle of misspell.
- mpegplus — (compression, algorithm) A non-ISO standard compressed audio file format derived from MPEG-1 Layer 2.
- mudflaps — Plural form of mudflap.
- nauplius — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
- nepalese — of or relating to Nepal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- netsplit — netburp
- newsclip — A very high level language designed for writing netnews filters. It translates into C. It includes support for various newsreaders. Version 1.01 includes a translator from NewsClip to C, examples and documentation. NewsClip was written by Looking Glass Software Ltd. and is distributed and used by ClariNet Communications Corporation It is only supported for ClariNet customers. Output of the filters may not be sold and donation for use of this program is hinted at. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- nol-pros — to end by a nolle prosequi.
- nslookup — (networking) A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
- nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
- objvlisp — 1984. An object-oriented extension of Vlisp. Reflective architecture.
- octuples — Plural form of octuple.
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- omphalos — the navel; umbilicus.
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opheltes — the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- opuscule — a small or minor work.
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outsleep — to sleep through or later than (a specified time).
- outspell — to surpass at spelling
- overplus — an excess over a particular amount; surplus: After the harvest the overplus was distributed among the tenantry.
- overslip — to leave out; miss.
- pactolus — a small river in Asia Minor, in ancient Lydia: famous for the gold washed from its sands.
- painless — without pain; causing little or no pain: painless dentistry; a painless cure.
- palazzos — women's pants with wide legs that flare broadly at the ankle
- paleosol — a fossil soil preserved within a sequence of geological deposits, indicative of past conditions.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- palewise — by perpendicular lines
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- palstave — a bronze celt fitted into a split wooden handle.