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12-letter words containing n, a, p, l, m

  • enamel paint — a type of paint that has a very hard and shiny finish once it is dry
  • enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
  • epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
  • experimental — (of a new invention or product) based on untested ideas or techniques and not yet established or finalized.
  • film company — a company dedicated to the making of motion pictures
  • footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
  • gelande jump — jump made in downhill skiing
  • germanophile — a person who is friendly toward or admires or studies Germany or German culture.
  • hair implant — the insertion of synthetic fibers or human hair into the scalp to cover baldness.
  • halogen lamp — a gas-filled, high-intensity incandescent lamp having a tungsten filament and containing a small amount of a halogen, such as iodine, that vaporizes on heating and redeposits any evaporated tungsten particles back onto the filament: used especially in motion-picture projectors and automobile headlights.
  • helmsmanship — the skill or function of a helmsman
  • hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
  • humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
  • hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
  • impardonable — (obsolete) unpardonable.
  • impedimental — Of the nature of an impediment; hindering or obstructing.
  • impenetrable — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
  • impenetrably — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
  • impersonally — In an impersonal manner.
  • implantation — the act of implanting.
  • implantology — the branch of dentistry dealing with the permanent implantation or attachment of artificial teeth in the jaw.
  • implications — something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood: to resent an implication of dishonesty.
  • imponderable — not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated.
  • impositional — Of or relating to imposition; intrusive.
  • impressional — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
  • imprisonable — capable of being imprisoned or incarcerated
  • in-compliant — not compliant; unyielding.
  • incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
  • incomparably — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
  • incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • incompatibly — In an incompatible manner.
  • incompliance — not compliant; unyielding.
  • incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
  • incomputably — In an incomputable way.
  • itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
  • kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
  • lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
  • lamellaphone — Alt form lamellophone.
  • lamellophone — (musical instruments) Any of several musical instruments in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellaa attached to a sounding board.
  • lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
  • lampadomancy — a method of divination by studying the carbon deposits left by a burning lamp or candle
  • laryngospasm — An uncontrolled, spasmodic closure of the larynx.
  • lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
  • lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
  • lisp machine — 1.   (architecture)   Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2.   (hardware, operating system)   A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
  • loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
  • lollipop man — (in Britain) a person who stops traffic by holding up a circular sign on a pole to allow children to cross a road safely
  • lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
  • lymphangioma — a benign tumor composed of dilated and newly formed lymph vessels.
  • lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
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