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15-letter words containing p, l, i

  • lexical scoping — lexical scope
  • lexicographical — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
  • lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
  • lick one's lips — to anticipate or recall something with glee or relish
  • life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
  • life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
  • light pollution — unwanted or harmful light, as from bright street lights or neon signs.
  • limited company — a company in which the shareholders cannot be assessed for debts of the company beyond the sum they still have invested in the company.
  • limited partner — special partner.
  • line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
  • linear operator — a mathematical operator with the property that applying it to a linear combination of two objects yields the same linear combination as the result of applying it to the objects separately.
  • linear topology — (theory)   A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
  • liquid paraffin — a colourless almost tasteless oily liquid obtained by petroleum distillation and used as a laxative
  • lissencephalous — having the cephalic disorder of a lack of developed brain folds
  • little corporal — (Napoleon Bonaparte"the Little Corporal") 1769–1821, French general born in Corsica: emperor of France 1804–15.
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • living expenses — money spent on basic needs
  • lleyn peninsula — a peninsula in NW Wales between Cardigan Bay and Caernarfon Bay
  • loading program — a series of instructions entered automatically in a program that starts the processing.
  • lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
  • logging company — a company that fells trees and sells timber
  • long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
  • loose chippings — pieces of gravel spread on the top of tarmac that fail to stick to it
  • lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
  • lords spiritual — a bishop or archbishop belonging to the House of Lords.
  • loss prevention — Loss prevention is the things that are done to make a process safe.
  • low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
  • low pass filter — (electronics, graphics)   A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
  • low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
  • lump uncurrying — Chin's generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples.
  • lung specialist — doctor specializing in lung conditions
  • luster painting — a method of decorating glazed pottery with metallic pigment, originated in Persia, popular from the 9th through the mid-19th centuries.
  • lymphocytopenia — (pathology) An abnormally low level of lymphocytes in the blood.
  • lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
  • lynden pindling — Lynden Oscar ("Father of the Bahamas") 1930–2000, Bahamian political leader: first prime minister 1967–92.
  • lzh compression — (algorithm)   (After Lempel-Ziv and Haruyasu, the inventors) A compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a sliding window and additional compression applied to the output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding.
  • lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • macroscopically — visible to the naked eye. Compare microscopic (def 1).
  • magnetic pulley — a magnetic device for separating metal from sand, refuse, etc.
  • main-topgallant — the main-topgallantmast, its sail, or its yard.
  • make capital of — to get advantage from
  • malacopterygian — belonging or pertaining to the Malacopterygii (Malacopteri), a group of soft-finned, teleost fishes.
  • maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
  • malappropriated — misused or mishandled
  • malay peninsula — a peninsula in SE Asia, consisting of W (mainland) Malaysia and the S part of Thailand.
  • male prostitute — man who has sex for money
  • malpighian body — Also called kidney corpuscle, Malpighian body. the structure at the beginning of a vertebrate nephron, consisting of a glomerulus and its surrounding Bowman's capsule.
  • malpighian tube — one of a group of long, slender excretory tubules at the anterior end of the hindgut in insects and other terrestrial arthropods.
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