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

  • prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
  • prolongation — the act of prolonging: the prolongation of a line.
  • promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • proportional — having due proportion; corresponding.
  • prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
  • proteoglycan — a macromolecule composed of a polysaccharide joined to a polypeptide and forming the ground substance of connective tissue.
  • prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • provableness — the quality of being provable
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincially — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
  • pulling boat — a boat propelled by oars alone.
  • punctulation — the state of being punctulate
  • pyromaniacal — a compulsion to set things on fire.
  • railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
  • ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • replantation — to plant again.
  • repopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
  • reputational — the estimation in which a person or thing is held, especially by the community or the public generally; repute: a man of good reputation.
  • responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
  • ribbon plant — spider plant (def 1).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • saloonkeeper — a person who operates a saloon (sense 3)
  • salpingotomy — incision of a Fallopian tube.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • signal corps — a branch of the army responsible for military communications, meteorological studies, and related work.
  • simplon pass — a pass over the Lepontine Alps in S Switzerland, between Brig (Switzerland) and Iselle (Italy). Height: 2009 m (6590 ft)
  • skeleton map — a map showing only basic details of a land, place, etc
  • sleep apnoea — the temporary cessation of breathing during sleep, which in some cases is due to obstruction of the upper airway by enlarged tonsils, uvula, etc, causing the sufferer to snore loudly and fight for breath
  • sleep around — to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
  • sloped roman — a roman (vertical) typeface, usually sans serif, i.e. without the small, decorative, terminal strokes with which some typefaces are designed. The typeface is made to slope (usually to the right), but not generally to the same degree as a true italic typeface
  • slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • span loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • speciational — relating to speciation
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