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12-letter words containing n, p, l

  • blue springs — a town in W Missouri.
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
  • bouillon cup — a small, bowl-shaped vessel, with two handles, in which bouillon is served.
  • branch plant — a plant or factory in Canada belonging to a company whose headquarters are in another country
  • bubble point — the temperature at which bubbles just start to appear in a heated liquid mixture
  • bullet point — A bullet point is one of a series of important items for discussion or action in a document, usually marked by a square or round symbol.
  • cacophonical — cacophonous
  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • calendar api — Calendar Application Programming Interface
  • camp lejeune — a U.S. Marine Corps base in SE North Carolina SE of Jacksonville on Onslow Bay.
  • cancelpoodle — (messaging)   (Or Cancelbunny) A manifestation of the Cancelmoose in the form of a more selective (and probably not automated) way to cancel Usenet articles. The term became common during the alt.religion.scientology wars of the mid-90s, during which Cancelpoodles were used. The "poodle" part is an allusion to one of the parties obliquely involved in the fray, who an earlier well-known witticism had compared to "a psychotic poodle".
  • candied peel — fruit skin which has been impregnated or encrusted with sugar or syrup, esp that of citrus fruits
  • capital gain — the amount by which the selling price of a financial asset exceeds its cost
  • capitalising — Present participle of capitalise.
  • capitalizing — Present participle of capitalize.
  • capitulating — Present participle of capitulate.
  • capitulation — the act of capitulating
  • cardinalship — The office (or term of office) of a cardinal.
  • carpool lane — a lane of a major road or motorway that is reserved for vehicles with a minimum number of passengers, designed to encourage carpooling
  • cattleperson — Someone who works with, or rears cattle.
  • center plate — one of a pair of plates that fit together and support the body of a car on a truck, while allowing the truck to rotate with respect to the body. One plate (body center plate) is attached to the underside of the car body and the other (truck center plate) is part of the car truck.
  • central park — a public park in central Manhattan, New York City. 840 acres (340 hectares).
  • centuplicate — to increase 100 times
  • channel port — one of the English or French ports on the English Channel
  • chaplinesque — characteristic of or resembling the comedy or filmmaking style of Charlie Chaplin.
  • chat-up line — A chat-up line is a remark that someone makes in order to start a conversation with someone they do not know but find sexually attractive.
  • chilpancingo — a town in S Mexico, capital of Guerrero state, in the Sierra Madre del Sur. Pop: 166 000 (2005 est)
  • chisel point — a nail or spike with the point formed by two flat inclined sides meeting at a sharp angle.
  • chlorophenol — any of three isomers having the formula C 6 H 5 ClO, derived from chlorine and phenol, used chiefly as intermediates in the manufacture of dyes.
  • chloropicrin — a colourless insoluble toxic lachrymatory liquid used as a pesticide and a tear gas; nitrotrichloromethane. Formula: CCl3NO2
  • chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
  • chrysophanol — (organic compound) A chemical compound found in rhubarb.
  • cip language — language> (CIP-L, Computer-aided Intuition-guided Programming Language) A wide-spectrum language for incremental program transformation. There are ALGOL- and Pascal-like variants.
  • clap eyes on — to catch sight of
  • clapboarding — Present participle of clapboard.
  • cleptomaniac — kleptomania.
  • clergyperson — a member of the clergy
  • clomipramine — A tricyclic, heterocyclic drug used to treat depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • clonic spasm — Pathology. a sudden, abnormal, involuntary muscular contraction, consisting of a continued muscular contraction (tonic spasm) or of a series of alternating muscular contractions and relaxations (clonic spasm)
  • clovis point — flint projectile dating from the 10th millennium bc
  • cluster pine — a pine tree, Pinus pinaster, having long thick needles and large clustered cones, native to the Mediterranean coastal regions.
  • coconut palm — A coconut palm is a tall tree on which coconuts grow.
  • coleopterans — Plural form of coleopteran.
  • collar point — a point midway between the heart point and top of an escutcheon.
  • colonoscopes — Plural form of colonoscope.
  • common pleas — in some U.S. states, a court having general and original jurisdiction over civil and criminal trials
  • commonplaces — Plural form of commonplace.
  • compellation — appellation
  • compellingly — in a way that demands attention and interest
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