7-letter words containing n, p, l
- gulping — Present participle of gulp.
- gun lap — the final lap of a race, signaled by the firing of a starter's pistol as the runner in the lead begins the lap
- gunplay — the exchange of gunshots, usually with intent to wound or kill.
- halpern — Daniel, born 1945, U.S. poet and editor.
- haplont — the haploid individual in a life cycle that has a diploid and a haploid phase.
- helping — the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.
- helprin — Mark, born 1947, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- hipline — the widest part or the contour of a person's hips
- impanel — to enter on a panel or list for jury duty.
- implant — to put or fix firmly: to implant sound principles in a child's mind.
- in play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- inaptly — In an inapt manner; inappropriately.
- inclasp — enclasp.
- ineptly — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
- insculp — to carve in or on something; engrave.
- jalapin — a resin that is one of the purgative principles of jalap.
- kelping — any large, brown, cold-water seaweed of the family Laminariaceae, used as food and in various manufacturing processes.
- kipling — (Joseph) Rudyard [ruhd-yerd] /ˈrʌd yərd/ (Show IPA), 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.
- kolpino — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe: a suburb SE of St. Petersburg.
- lampang — a city in NW Thailand.
- lampern — The European river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis.
- lamping — a source of intellectual or spiritual light: the lamp of learning.
- lampion — a small lamp, especially a small oil lamp with a tinted glass chimney, formerly very popular as a source of illumination on carriages.
- lampoon — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- land up — any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands: Land was sighted from the crow's nest.
- lapland — a region in N Norway, N Sweden, N Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of the NW Russian Federation in Europe: inhabited by Lapps.
- lapping — (of water) to wash against or beat upon (something) with a light, slapping or splashing sound: Waves lapped the shoreline.
- lapsang — noting a kind of souchong tea with a strong smoky flavor.
- lapsing — Present participle of lapse.
- lapwing — a large Old World plover, Vanellus vanellus, having a long, slender, upcurved crest, an erratic, flapping flight, and a shrill cry.
- leaping — Present participle of leap.
- lepanto — Greek Návpaktos. a seaport in W Greece, on the Lepanto Strait: Turkish sea power destroyed here 1571.
- leptons — Plural form of lepton.
- li peng — born 1928, Chinese Communist politician: premier (1988–98)
- limping — Present participle of limp.
- limpkin — a large, loud-voiced, wading bird, Aramus guarauna, intermediate in size and character between the cranes and the rails, of the warmer regions of America.
- line up — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- line-up — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- lineups — Plural form of lineup.
- link up — connect
- linkups — Plural form of linkup.
- linpack — 1. A package of linear algebra routines. 2. The kernel benchmark developed from the "LINPACK" package of linear algebra routines. It was written by Jack Dongarra <[email protected]> in Fortran and is commonly used in that language but there is also a C version. Source Code by FTP: single precision Fortran, double precision Fortran, C.
- lipmann — Fritz Albert, 1899–1986, U.S. biochemist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1953.
- lipping — either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
- lisping — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- looping — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- lop nur — series of salt lakes and marshes in Xinjiang Uygur, NW China: nuclear test site.
- lopping — to let hang or droop: He lopped his arms at his sides in utter exhaustion.
- lumping — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- lumpkin — a heavy or clumsy person