12-letter words containing p, l, a, s
- lisp machine — 1. (architecture) Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2. (hardware, operating system) A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- lopez mateos — Adolfo [ah-th awl-faw] /ɑˈðɔl fɔ/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Mexican lawyer and politician: president of Mexico 1958–64.
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- lover's leap — a high area, as on a cliff, from which frustrated or grieving lovers jump or are reputed to have jumped to their death.
- luteal phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, lasting about two weeks, from ovulation to the beginning of the next menstrual flow.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphoblasts — Plural form of lymphoblast.
- magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
- main-topsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
- mains supply — electricity, water, or gas supplied to a building through wires or pipes
- malapropisms — Plural form of malapropism.
- mallophagous — of or relating to any wingless insect of the order Mallophaga
- malpositions — Plural form of malposition.
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- mammaplastic — Of, or pertaining to, mammaplasty.
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- mansplaining — (informal, pejorative) The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a female listener in order to appear knowledgable or from a mistaken presumption that she has an inferior understanding of the topic.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
- marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
- marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
- matopo hills — the granite hills south of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where Cecil Rhodes chose to be buried
- melanophores — Plural form of melanophore.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
- mesoplankton — plankton that live at middle depths.
- metal polish — cleaning fluid designed to clean, polish or add shine to metal
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapolitics — political theory: often used derogatorily
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- milliamperes — Plural form of milliampere.
- millilampson — /mil'*-lamp"sn/ A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer of the PDP-11) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.
- misappraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- misportrayal — the act of portraying.
- monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
- monopetalous — gamopetalous.
- monosepalous — gamosepalous.
- morphallaxis — Biology. the regeneration of a destroyed body part by the reorganization of its remaining cells.
- mrs-malaprop — Mrs. a character in Sheridan's The Rivals (1775), noted for her misapplication of words.
- multi-pascal — An extension of Pascal-S with multiprocessing features. Used in "The Art of Parallel Programming", Bruce P. Lester, P-H 1993.