11-letter words containing n, i, p, l
- approvingly — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- aptitudinal — capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent: She has a special aptitude for mathematics.
- aquaplaning — loss of contact with the road because of surface water
- arolla pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra, found esp in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
- asplanchnic — having no gut
- beilan pass — a mountain pass in SE Turkey near Syria. 2395 feet (730 meters).
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- block print — a design printed by means of one or more blocks of wood or metal.
- blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
- blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
- bontempelli — Massimo. 1878–1960, Italian dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic. His works include the play Nostra Dea (1925) and the novel The Faithful Lover (1953)
- broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
- caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
- calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
- call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
- call-in pay — payment made to employees who report for work and find there is no work for them to do.
- callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- canophilist — a person who loves dogs
- capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
- capsulizing — Present participle of capsulize.
- captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
- cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
- catapulting — Present participle of catapult.
- celery pine — a New Zealand gymnosperm tree, Phyllocladus trichomanoides, with celerylike shoots and useful wood: family Phyllocladaceae
- centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
- chlorpicrin — chloropicrin
- ciclosporin — a drug extracted from a fungus and used after organ transplantation to suppress the body's immune mechanisms, and so prevent rejection of an organ
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- clodhopping — loutish; boorish.
- clothes-pin — a device, such as a forked piece of wood or plastic, for fastening articles to a clothesline.
- clothespins — Plural form of clothespin.
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- coil spring — a helical spring formed from wire
- colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- colophonies — Plural form of colophony.
- colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
- common lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp defined by a consortium of companies brought together in 1981 by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Companies included Symbolics, Lisp Machines, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Bell Labs., Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Livermore Labs., Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, Yale, MIT and USC Berkeley. Common Lisp is lexically scoped by default but can be dynamically scoped. Common Lisp is a large and complex language, fairly close to a superset of MacLisp. It features lexical binding, data structures using defstruct and setf, closures, multiple values, types using declare and a variety of numerical types. Function calls allow "&optional", keyword and "&rest" arguments. Generic sequence can either be a list or an array. It provides formatted printing using escape characters. Common LISP now includes CLOS, an extended LOOP macro, condition system, pretty printing and logical pathnames. Implementations include AKCL, CCL, CLiCC, CLISP, CLX, CMU Common Lisp, DCL, KCL, MCL and WCL. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
- companiable — sociable
- compilating — Present participle of compilate.