11-letter words containing p, l, a, n, t
- knife pleat — a sharply creased narrow pleat, usually one of a series folded in the same direction.
- land patent — an official document by which title to a portion of public land is conveyed from the government.
- landscapist — an artist who paints landscapes.
- lapidescent — in the process of changing into stone
- large print — text printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
- large-print — set in a type size larger than normal for the benefit of persons with impaired vision: large-print newspapers.
- latex paint — paint that has a latex binder and can be removed while it is wet by applying water.
- lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
- lilliputian — extremely small; tiny; diminutive.
- linear type — 1. (theory, programming) An attribute of values which are used exactly once: they are neither duplicated nor destroyed. Such values require no garbage collection, and can safely be updated in place, even if they form part of a data structure. Linear types are related to the linear logic of J.-Y Girard. They extend Schmidt's notion of single threading, provide an alternative to Hudak and Bloss' update analysis, and offer a practical complement to Lafont and Holmström's elegant linear languages.
- lone parent — a parent who is not married and does not have a partner, who is bringing up a child or children
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- lycanthropy — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- maintopsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
- malposition — faulty or wrong position, especially of a part or organ of the body or of a fetus in the uterus.
- manipulated — Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate.
- manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
- manipulator — a person who manipulates.
- mantelpiece — a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
- mantlepiece — mantel.
- master plan — A master plan is a clever plan that is intended to help someone succeed in a very difficult or important task.
- master-plan — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- mean planet — a hypothetical planet that coincides with a real planet when the real planet is at perihelion and that moves in an orbit at a constant velocity equal to the mean velocity of the real planet.
- megapolitan — of, relating to, or characteristic of a megalopolis.
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
- multiplanes — Plural form of multiplane.
- naphthalene — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble hydrocarbon, C 1 0 H 8 , usually obtained from coal tar: used in making dyes, as a moth repellant, etc.
- naphthaline — Naphthalene.
- naphthalize — to mix or saturate with naphtha.
- napoleonite — a variety of diorite rock with a spherical structure
- narcoleptic — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- nazca plate — a tectonic division of the earth's crust, coincident with the suboceanic Peru Basin, and bounded on the north by the Cocos Plate, separated from the South American Plate by the Peru-Chile Trench, from the Pacific Plate by the East Pacific Rise, and from the Antarctic Plate by the Chile Rise.
- neoplatonic — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
- neotropical — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising that part of the New World extending from the tropic of Cancer southward.
- nephritical — Alternative form of nephritic.
- neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
- neuropteral — (zoology) Of or pertaining to the Neuroptera.
- new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
- no-platform — to deny (a person) the opportunity to speak in a political debate or forum
- nodal point — either of two points on the axis of a lens or other optical system, determined by extending an incident oblique ray and the corresponding refracted ray to the axis for the pair of rays that are parallel outside the optical system.
- non-optical — of, relating to, or applying optics or the principles of optics.
- non-typical — of the nature of or serving as a type or representative specimen.
- nonhospital — not related to, identified with, or taking place in a hospital
- nonparental — of or relating to a parent.
- nontemporal — not indicating time
- nontropical — not located in or originating from the tropics, not having the characteristics of the tropics
- notaphilist — a person who studies or collects paper money
- nulliparity — a woman who has never borne a child.
- numberplate — Alternative spelling of number plate.