11-letter words containing p, l, e, a, t
- leptodactyl — leptodactylous
- leptospiral — relating to, caused by, or characteristic of leptospires
- letterspace — to space out (the letters of a word or line) for balance or emphasis.
- leucoplasts — Plural form of leucoplast.
- lex scripta — written law; statute law.
- liberty cap — a soft, conical cap given to a freed slave in ancient Rome at manumission of his servitude, used as a symbol of liberty, especially since the 18th century.
- light opera — operetta.
- lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
- 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.
- logotherapy — (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life.
- lone parent — a parent who is not married and does not have a partner, who is bringing up a child or children
- lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
- lycanthrope — a person affected with lycanthropy.
- maladaptive — of, relating to, or characterized by maladaptation or incomplete, inadequate, or faulty adaptation: The maladaptive behavior of isolated children was difficult to change.
- malpractice — Law. failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows.
- manipulated — Simple past tense and past participle of manipulate.
- manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
- 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.
- marketplace — an open area in a town where a market is held.
- 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.
- match plate — a plate on which patterns are set to be molded.
- 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.
- metacarpals — Plural form of metacarpal.
- metaplasmic — Cell Biology. the nonliving matter or inclusions, as starch or pigments, within a cell.
- metaplastic — the transformation of one type of tissue into another.
- metapodials — Plural form of metapodial.
- middle path — the conduct of life by a religious person in such a way as to avoid the extremes of luxury and asceticism.
- 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.
- multiplayer — of or relating to a video game, or a portion of a video game, in which more than one person plays at the same time in a shared game environment: a multiplayer game; multiplayer mode; a multiplayer experience.
- myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- 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
- nonparental — of or relating to a parent.
- nontemporal — not indicating time
- numberplate — Alternative spelling of number plate.