15-letter words containing p, a, i, l
- instalment plan — agreed series of repayments
- insulating tape — adhesive tape, impregnated with a moisture-repelling substance, used to insulate exposed electrical conductors
- insuperableness — The quality of being insuperable or insurmountable; insuperability.
- inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- interdependable — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
- internal spline — any one of a series of grooves in a mating part into which external splines fit to prevent movement between two parts, esp in transmitting torque
- interparoxysmal — occurring in the period or periods between paroxysms.
- interperceptual — occurring between periods of perceiving
- interpersonally — of or pertaining to the relations between persons: He has strong interpersonal skills.
- interphalangeal — Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
- interpopulation — Between populations.
- interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- intraperitoneal — Within the cavity of the peritoneum.
- intrapopulation — occurring within a population or between members of a population
- intrapreneurial — Entrepreneurial within an existing business; describing entrepreneurship within an existing business.
- introspectional — Of or relating to introspection.
- ionospherically — by the ionosphere
- iranian plateau — a plateau in SW Asia, mostly in Iran, extending from the Tigris to the Indus rivers. 1,000,000 sq. mi. (2,590,000 sq. km).
- iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
- irreparableness — The quality of being irreparable.
- isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
- italian cypress — a tall Eurasian cypress, cupressus sempervirens, native to the eastern Mediterranean region
- italian spinone — a strongly-built gun dog with a wiry white coat and pendulous ears
- jurisprudential — the science or philosophy of law.
- juxtapositional — an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
- kalmyk republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: became subject to Russia in 1646. Capital: Elista. Pop: 292 400 (2002). Area: 76 100 sq km (29 382 sq miles)
- kenai peninsula — peninsula in S Alas. between Cook Inlet & the main body of the Gulf of Alaska: c. 150 mi (241 km) long: site of one the world's largest ice fields
- kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
- kleptoparasites — Plural form of kleptoparasite.
- kleptoparasitic — Pertaining to kleptoparasitism.
- lambda particle — any of a family of neutral baryons with strangeness −1 or charm +1, and isotopic spin 0. The least massive member of the lambda family was the first strange particle to be discovered. Symbol: Λ.
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- lapland bunting — a passerine bird: Calcarius lapponicus
- lead-pipe cinch — an absolute certainty: It's a lead-pipe cinch they'll be there.
- leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
- lean production — Lean production is the same as lean manufacturing.
- least sandpiper — a small, American sandpiper, Calidris minutilla, related to the stints of Europe.
- leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
- leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
- lex non scripta — unwritten law; common law.
- lexical scoping — lexical scope
- lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
- limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
- limited partner — special partner.
- line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
- linear operator — a mathematical operator with the property that applying it to a linear combination of two objects yields the same linear combination as the result of applying it to the objects separately.
- linear topology — (theory) A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.