10-letter words containing n, i, p, l
- flip phone — mobile telephone: clam-shell style
- flippantly — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- floodplain — a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding.
- floppiness — tending to flop.
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- flytipping — Alternative form of fly-tipping.
- franz lisp — (language) A MacLisp-like dialect of Lisp, developed primarily for work in symbolic algebra by R. Fateman et al at Ucb in about 1980. It was named after the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Franz Lisp was written in C and includes a compiler called "Liszt". Version: Opus 38.22. Liszt 8.08.
- galumphing — to move along heavily and clumsily.
- geoponical — agricultural
- giant kelp — any of various very large kelps of the genera Laminaria, Macrocystis, and Nereocystis.
- gin palace — (formerly) a gaudy drinking house
- glen plaid — a plaid pattern of muted colors or of black or gray and white, especially one in which two dark and two light stripes alternate with four dark and four light stripes, both vertically and horizontally, forming a crossing pattern of irregular checks.
- gnaphalium — Any of the genus Gnaphalium of flowering plants, the cudweeds.
- gold point — the point at which it is equally expensive to buy, sell, export, import, or exchange gold in adjustment of foreign claims or counterclaims.
- grapplings — Plural form of grappling.
- graspingly — In a grasping manner.
- grippingly — In a gripping manner.
- gynophilic — Woman-loving.
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- haplobiont — an organism, esp a plant, that exists in either the diploid form or the haploid form (but never alternates between these forms) during its life cycle
- hip-length — reaching to or covering the hips, as clothing: a hiplength sweater.
- hispaniola — an island in the West Indies, comprising the republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 29,843 sq. mi. (77,293 sq. km).
- hyperlinks — Plural form of hyperlink.
- hypolimnia — Plural form of hypolimnion.
- hypolydian — denoting a plagal mode represented by the diatonic scale from D to D
- iconophile — a connoisseur of icons or images.
- impalement — to fasten, stick, or fix upon a sharpened stake or the like.
- impaneling — Present participle of impanel.
- impanelled — Simple past tense and past participle of impanel.
- imparlance — an extension of time granted to one party in a lawsuit to plead or to settle the dispute amicably.
- imperiling — Present participle of imperil.
- impersonal — not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
- implanting — Present participle of implant.
- impleading — to sue in a court of law.
- implements — Plural form of implement.
- implosions — Plural form of implosion.
- imployment — Obsolete spelling of employment.
- imposingly — very impressive because of great size, stately appearance, dignity, elegance, etc.: Notre Dame, Rheims, and other imposing cathedrals of France.
- impotently — not potent; lacking power or ability.
- impudently — of, relating to, or characterized by impertinence or effrontery: The student was kept late for impudent behavior.
- impugnable — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
- impulsions — Plural form of impulsion.
- impunctual — Not punctual.
- impurpling — Present participle of impurple.
- in plaster — If you have a leg or arm in plaster, you have a cover made of plaster of Paris around your leg or arm, in order to protect a broken bone and allow it to mend.
- inceptisol — a soil so young that horizons have just begun to form: especially prevalent in tundra areas.
- inch plant — any of several creeping or sprawling tropical American plants of the genus Callisia, having sometimes fragrant flowers in a variety of colors.
- incomplete — not complete; lacking some part.
- incorporal — Obsolete form of incorporeal.
- inculpable — not culpable; blameless; guiltless.