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12-letter words containing n, i, p, l, e

  • prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • protectingly — in a protective manner
  • protensively — in the manner of duration
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
  • public enemy — a person or thing considered a danger or menace to the public, especially a wanted criminal widely sought by the F.B.I. and local police forces.
  • public money — money that has been collected by the state, usually through taxation
  • puerto limon — Limón (def 2).
  • pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
  • purblindness — the state of being purblind
  • purlin plate — (in a curb roof) a purlin at the top of a lower slope supporting the ends of the upper rafters at the curb.
  • purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
  • pyroligneous — produced by the distillation of wood.
  • quindecaplet — a group of 15
  • railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
  • ranging pole — a pole for marking positions in surveying
  • reading lamp — A reading lamp is a small lamp that you keep on a desk or table. You can move part of it in order to direct the light to where you need it for reading.
  • real nappies — resuable cloth nappies
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • renal pelvis — a small funnel-shaped cavity of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter
  • replantation — to plant again.
  • replenishing — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • 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.
  • responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • responsorial — of or relating to response; responsive
  • retropulsion — an abnormal tendency to walk backwards: a symptom of Parkinson's disease
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sample point — a possible result of an experiment, represented as a point.
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • seating plan — layout of seats at a venue or on transport
  • 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
  • serpentinely — in a serpentine fashion
  • shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
  • 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.
  • single-party — of or relating to a form of government in which only a single political party constitutes the government
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