12-letter words containing p, l, a, n, t
- expositional — Explained in clear terms, as in writing.
- exspoliation — (obsolete) spoliation.
- flag captain — the captain of a flagship
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
- foot-poundal — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy equal to the work done by a force of one poundal when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-pdl.
- footplateman — a member of a locomotive crew who stands on the footplate to operate the controls
- fortran-plus — Fortran for the DAP parallel machine, implements many Fortran 90 features.
- french pleat — curtain, draperies
- geopotential — the difference between the potential energy of a mass at a given altitude and the potential energy of an identical mass at sea level, equivalent to the energy required to move the mass from sea level to the given altitude.
- get anyplace — to have any success
- giant planet — any of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, characterized by large mass, low density, and an extensive atmosphere
- gold-plating — the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
- great plains — a semiarid region E of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
- ground plate — Electricity. a metal plate for making a ground connection to the earth.
- hair implant — the insertion of synthetic fibers or human hair into the scalp to cover baldness.
- haliplankton — plankton living in sea water
- haptoglobins — Plural form of haptoglobin.
- hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- holoplankton — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
- humble plant — sensitive plant (def 1).
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hyperinflate — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- hypnotically — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- hypnotisable — Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
- hypnotizable — One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
- hypoplastron — the third lateral plate in the plastron of turtles
- impedimental — Of the nature of an impediment; hindering or obstructing.
- impenetrable — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- impenetrably — not penetrable; that cannot be penetrated, pierced, entered, etc.
- implantation — the act of implanting.
- implantology — the branch of dentistry dealing with the permanent implantation or attachment of artificial teeth in the jaw.
- implications — something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood: to resent an implication of dishonesty.
- impositional — Of or relating to imposition; intrusive.
- in duplicate — in two copies, times two
- in-compliant — not compliant; unyielding.
- inacceptable — Unacceptable.
- inapparently — in an inapparent manner
- incapability — not capable.
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- incapsulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incapsulate.
- incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incompatibly — In an incompatible manner.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- incomputably — In an incomputable way.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- indisputably — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- inextirpable — incapable of being extirpated: inextirpable disease.
- inhospitable — not inclined to, or characterized by, hospitality, as persons or actions; unfriendly.