12-letter words containing p, l, e, n, c
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
- lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- landed price — the price when delivered
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
- leper colony — a place where people who have leprosy live in quarantine
- line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
- linear space — vector space.
- 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.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- meclonazepam — A benzodiazepine derivative, similar in structure to clonazepam, with sedative and anxiolytic effects and antiparasitic activity against Schistosoma mansoni.
- microplanner — A subset of PLANNER, implemented in Lisp by Gerald Sussman et al at MIT. Its important features were goal-oriented, pattern-directed procedure invocation, an embedded knowledge base, and automatic backtracking. microPLANNER was superseded by Conniver.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- monocephalic — bearing one flower head, as the dandelion.
- monophyletic — Biology. consisting of organisms descended from a single taxon.
- mucopurulent — containing or composed of mucus and pus.
- multipotency — (cytology, developmental biology) The ability of a progenitor cell to develop into a limited number of cell types.
- municipalize — to make a municipality of.
- nanoparticle — a microscopic particle of matter that is measured on the nanoscale, usually one that measures less than 100 nanometers.
- necrophiliac — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- necropolises — Plural form of necropolis.
- neencephalon — the more recent part of the brain in the evolutionary development of animals, including the cerebral cortex and its related structures.
- nephelinitic — containing or resembling nephelinite, pertaining to nephelinite
- nepotistical — Nepotistic.
- neuroleptics — Plural form of neuroleptic.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
- neutrophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained only by neutral dyes.
- new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
- nickel plate — thin coating of nickel
- nickel-plate — to coat with nickel by electroplating or other process.
- non-complier — a person, group, etc., that complies.
- non-culpable — deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
- noncorporeal — Not corporeal.
- nonempirical — derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
- nonpolemical — a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- nucleophilic — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- nullipotence — Quality of being nullipotent.
- nympholeptic — an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
- octyl phenol — a white to pink, water-insoluble, flaky substance having the formula C 1 4 H 2 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of commercial surface-active agents.