8-letter words containing p, e, a, l
- leopards — Plural form of leopard.
- levodopa — a synthetic substance, C 9 H 11 NO 4 , that is converted in the brain to dopamine: used chiefly in the treatment of parkinsonism.
- lifespan — the longest period over which the life of any organism or species may extend, according to the available biological knowledge concerning it.
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- lip-read — to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- lipaemia — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- lipaemic — excessive amounts of fat and fatty substances in the blood; hyperlipemia.
- liparite — a light-coloured, igneous rock made of quartz
- lipoates — Plural form of lipoate.
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- loxapine — A typical antipsychotic medication derived from dibenzazepine and mainly used to treat schizophrenia.
- malapert — unbecomingly bold or saucy.
- manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
- maniples — Plural form of maniple.
- mappable — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- mayapple — American plant
- maypoles — Plural form of maypole.
- megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megalops — the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.
- megaplex — a large building containing many movie theaters, usually more than a dozen.
- melampus — the first seer and healer: his ears were licked by serpents he had raised, enabling him to understand the speech and wisdom of animals.
- milarepa — (tool) A Perl BNF parser generator by Jeffrey Kegler <[email protected]>. Milarepa takes a source grammar written in a mixture of BNF and Perl and generates Perl source, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses the language described by the grammar. Milarepa is not restricted to LRn grammars, and the parse logic follows directly from the BNF. It handles ambiguous grammars, ambiguous tokens (tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) and allows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammar may not be left recursive. The input must be divided into sentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixed distinction between terminals and non-terminals, that is, a symbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand side of a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in a single Perl program. Version: Prototype 1.0. Posted to comp.lang.perl. The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.
- misplace — to put in a wrong place.
- misplead — To plead amiss or in a wrong manner; err in pleading.
- napalmed — Simple past tense and past participle of napalm.
- napoleon — (Louis Napoleon; Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte) [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1808–73, president of France 1848–52, emperor of France 1852–70 (nephew of Napoleon I).
- neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
- neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
- nepalese — of or relating to Nepal, its inhabitants, or their language.
- nephtali — Naphtali.
- net play — play made from a position close to the net
- oilpaper — a paper made waterproof and translucent by treatment with oil.
- oldspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) standard English, in contrast to English that is overly technical, politically correct, euphemistic, etc. Compare newspeak.
- omoplate — the shoulder blade
- opalesce — to exhibit a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opalized — made into an opal
- opaquely — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- openable — capable of being opened.
- operable — that can be treated by a surgical operation. Compare inoperable (def 2).
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
- oppilate — to stop up; fill with obstructing matter; obstruct.
- outleaps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outleap.
- outplace — to provide outplacement for.
- overflap — a protective paper cover for artwork, usually of kraft paper.
- overleap — to leap over or across: to overleap a fence.
- overplan — to plan excessively
- overplay — to exaggerate or overemphasize (one's role in a play, an emotion, an effect, etc.): The young actor overplayed Hamlet shamelessly. The director of the movie had overplayed the pathos.
- pace lap — a lap before the beginning of an auto race for warming up the engines and giving the field a moving start.
- packable — suitable for packing, especially for travel: readily packable clothes.