7-letter words containing p, l
- lampion — a small lamp, especially a small oil lamp with a tinted glass chimney, formerly very popular as a source of illumination on carriages.
- lamplit — Illuminated by a lamp or lamps.
- lampoon — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampost — Alternative spelling of lamppost.
- lamprey — any eellike marine or freshwater fish of the order Petromyzoniformes, having a circular, suctorial mouth with horny teeth for boring into the flesh of other fishes to feed on their blood.
- lampuki — a large marine fish, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis
- land up — any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands: Land was sighted from the crow's nest.
- lap dog — a small pet dog that can easily be held in the lap.
- laparo- — the flank, the abdominal wall
- lapdogs — Plural form of lapdog.
- lapheld — (esp of a personal computer) small enough to be used on one's lap; portable
- lapilli — a small stony particle ejected from a volcano.
- laplace — Pierre Simon [pyer see-mawn] /pyɛr siˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), Marquis de, 1749–1827, French astronomer and mathematician.
- lapland — a region in N Norway, N Sweden, N Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of the NW Russian Federation in Europe: inhabited by Lapps.
- lappage — an overlapping of part or all of a piece of land claimed by one person on land claimed by another.
- lappets — Plural form of lappet.
- lapping — (of water) to wash against or beat upon (something) with a light, slapping or splashing sound: Waves lapped the shoreline.
- lappish — Lapp (def 2).
- lapsang — noting a kind of souchong tea with a strong smoky flavor.
- lapsers — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- lapsing — Present participle of lapse.
- laptops — Plural form of laptop.
- laptray — a tray with a cushioned underside, designed to rest in a person's lap while supporting reading material, a meal eaten while watching television, etc
- lapwing — a large Old World plover, Vanellus vanellus, having a long, slender, upcurved crest, an erratic, flapping flight, and a shrill cry.
- lapwork — a type of craftwork in which there are parts or edges that overlap each other
- larrups — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of larrup.
- lash-up — a hastily made or arranged device, organization, etc.
- le-lisp — Jerome Chailloux and Emmanuel St James, INRIA, France. A LISP dialect close to Common Lisp, lexically scoped, with a CLOS-like object system. Uses both packages and modules. "le-lisp: A Portable and Efficient Lisp System", J. Chailloux et al, Proc 1984 ACM Symp on Lisp and Functional Programming, ACM. Version v.16, available from ILOG, France.
- le-puys — a city in and the capital of Haute-Loire, in central France: cathedral.
- lead-up — something that provides an approach to or preparation for an event or situation.
- leapers — Plural form of leaper.
- leaping — Present participle of leap.
- legaspi — a seaport on SE Luzon, in the Philippines.
- leipzig — a city in E central Germany.
- lempira — a paper money and monetary unit of Honduras, equal to 100 centavos. Abbreviation: L.
- leopard — a large, spotted Asian or African carnivore, Panthera pardus, of the cat family, usually tawny with black markings; the Old World panther: all leopard populations are threatened or endangered.
- leopold — 1901–83, king of Belgium 1934–51 (son of Albert I).
- lepanto — Greek Návpaktos. a seaport in W Greece, on the Lepanto Strait: Turkish sea power destroyed here 1571.
- lepido- — scale or scaly
- lepidus — Marcus Aemilius [ee-mil-ee-uh s] /iˈmɪl i əs/ (Show IPA), died 13 b.c, Roman politician: member of the second triumvirate.
- leporid — an animal of the family Leporidae, comprising the rabbits and hares.
- leppard — Raymond. born 1927, British conductor and musicologist, in the US from 1977: noted esp for his revivals of early opera
- leproma — the swollen lesion of leprosy.
- leprose — leprous.
- leprosy — a chronic, mildly infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the peripheral nervous system, skin, and nasal mucosa and variously characterized by ulcerations, tubercular nodules, and loss of sensation that sometimes leads to traumatic amputation of the anesthetized part.
- leprous — Pathology. affected with leprosy.
- lepsius — Karl Richard [kahrl rikh-ahrt] /kɑrl ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1810–84, German philologist and Egyptologist.
- leptome — plant tissue, similar to phloem, that conducts food substances in bryophytes
- leptons — Plural form of lepton.
- lesseps — Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de [fur-dn-and muh-ree,, vee-kawnt duh French, fer-dee-nahn ma-ree,, vee-kawnt duh] /ˈfɜr dnˌænd məˈri,, viˈkɔnt də French, fɛr diˈnɑ̃ maˈri,, vi kɔ̃t də/ (Show IPA), 1805–94, French engineer and diplomat: promoter of the Suez Canal.