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12-letter words containing p, l, o, i

  • life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
  • ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
  • limnophilous — (of animals) living in lakes or freshwater marshes
  • lincoln park — a city in SE Michigan.
  • line probing — A feature of some V.34 modems that will allow them to identify the capacity and quality of the phone line and adjust themselves to allow, for each individual connection, for maximum throughput using the highest possible data transmission rate.
  • linespersons — Plural form of linesperson.
  • liopleurodon — Any of the genus Liopleurodon of large carnivorous marine plesiosaurs, apex predators of the Middle to Late Jurassic seas that covered Europe.
  • lipoproteina — a plasma lipoprotein containing protein and cholesterol, high levels of which are associated with atherosclerosis.
  • lipoproteins — Plural form of lipoprotein.
  • liposarcomas — Plural form of liposarcoma.
  • lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
  • lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
  • lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
  • lithographic — Of, relating to, or produced by lithography.
  • lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
  • lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
  • lithophilous — (of animals and plants) inhabiting or growing in stony places
  • lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
  • lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
  • lithotripter — a device used for fragmenting kidney stones with ultrasound waves.
  • lithotriptic — causing the destruction of bladder stones
  • live in hope — If you live in hope that something will happen, you continue to hope that it will happen, although it seems unlikely, and you realize that you are being foolish.
  • liverpolitan — a native or inhabitant of Liverpool
  • living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
  • loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
  • loan capital — borrowed capital
  • local option — a right of choice exercised by a minor political division, as a county, especially as to allowing the sale of liquor.
  • lollipop man — (in Britain) a person who stops traffic by holding up a circular sign on a pole to allow children to cross a road safely
  • london pride — a saxifragaceous plant, a hybrid between Saxifraga spathularis and S. umbrosa, having a basal rosette of leaves and pinkish-white flowers
  • long-playing — of or relating to microgroove records devised to be played at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.
  • longipennate — (of birds) having long slender wings or feathers
  • looping mill — a rolling mill for bar stock, wire, and the like, having the successive stands side by side so that the metal forms a loop in passing from stand to stand.
  • loose-lipped — tending toward indiscriminate and uninhibited talk.
  • lopsidedness — heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced; unsymmetrical.
  • low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
  • lumpectomies — Plural form of lumpectomy.
  • luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
  • lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
  • lymphangioma — a benign tumor composed of dilated and newly formed lymph vessels.
  • lyophilizate — A lyophilizate is a freeze-dried product.
  • lyophilizing — Present participle of lyophilize.
  • machtpolitik — power politics
  • 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.
  • malapportion — to apportion improperly or unfairly (voting districts, a legislature, etc.)
  • malapropisms — Plural form of malapropism.
  • malpositions — Plural form of malposition.
  • manipulation — the act of manipulating.
  • manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
  • manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
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