7-letter words containing p, l
- look up — the act of looking: a look of inquiry.
- lookups — Plural form of lookup.
- loom up — rise ominously
- loopers — Plural form of looper.
- loopily — In a loopy way.
- looping — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- lop nur — series of salt lakes and marshes in Xinjiang Uygur, NW China: nuclear test site.
- lop off — cut off
- loppers — long-handled pruning shears.
- lopping — to let hang or droop: He lopped his arms at his sides in utter exhaustion.
- lopseed — a weedy plant, Phryma leptostachya, of Asia and North America, having spikes of whitish paired flowers.
- love up — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- love-up — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- luapula — a river in S central Africa, flowing E and N along the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Lake Mweru. About 300 miles (485 km) long.
- ludship — a humorous or hurried form of 'lordship'
- lump it — accept sth unpleasant
- lumpers — Plural form of lumper.
- lumpier — Comparative form of lumpy.
- lumpily — In a lumpy manner.
- lumping — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- lumpish — resembling a lump.
- lumpkin — a heavy or clumsy person
- lumpsum — Paid all at one time.
- lupanar — a brothel; whorehouse.
- lupines — Plural form of lupine.
- lupulin — the glandular hairs of the hop, Humulus lupulus, formerly used in medicine as a sedative.
- lycopod — any erect or creeping, mosslike, evergreen plant of the genus Lycopodium, as the club moss or ground pine.
- lymphad — an ancient rowing boat with one mast
- lympho- — indicating lymph or the lymphatic system
- maclisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed at MIT AI Lab in 1966, known for its efficiency and programming facilities. MacLisp was later used by Project MAC, Mathlab and Macsyma. It ran on the PDP-10. It introduced the LEXPR (a function with variable arity), macros, arrays, and CATCH/THROW. MacLisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being Interlisp). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both.
- magilph — Alternative form of megilp.
- malpais — Southwestern U.S. an extensive area of rough, barren lava flows.
- maniple — (in ancient Rome) a subdivision of a legion, consisting of 60 or 120 men.
- mapless — Without a map or maps.
- maplike — Having the characteristics of a map.
- marlpit — (dated) A pit where marl has been dug.
- marplot — a person who mars or defeats a plot, design, or project by meddling.
- maypole — a tall pole, decorated with flowers and ribbons, around which people dance or engage in sports during May Day celebrations.
- megilph — Alternative form of megilp.
- milksop — a weak or ineffectual person.
- mispell — Misspelling of misspell.
- mispelt — Misspelling of misspelt.
- misplan — (transitive) To plan badly or incorrectly.
- misplay — a wrong or bad play.
- morphol — morphology
- mudflap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mudlump — a small, short-lived island of clay or silt that forms within a river delta.
- n-tuple — a set of n objects or quantities, where n is an integer, especially such a set arranged in a specified order (ordered n-tuple)
- nail up — a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, usually in any of numerous standard lengths from a fraction of an inch to several inches and having one end pointed and the other enlarged and flattened, for hammering into or through wood, other building materials, etc., as used in building, in fastening, or in holding separate pieces together.
- naipaul — V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) born 1932, English novelist and nonfiction writer, born in Trinidad.