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12-letter words containing p, s, i, l, a, n

  • interpolates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interpolate.
  • interspatial — a space between things.
  • interspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
  • interspersal — Interspersion.
  • interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
  • isoprenaline — a compound that is a derivative of adrenaline and that is used to treat asthma and bronchial conditions. Formula: C11H17NO3
  • kinetoplasts — Plural form of kinetoplast.
  • labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
  • landing ship — any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach.
  • landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
  • lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
  • lilliputians — Plural form of lilliputian.
  • line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
  • linear space — vector space.
  • lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
  • lipoxygenase — (enzyme) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
  • 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.
  • lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • 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.
  • mains supply — electricity, water, or gas supplied to a building through wires or pipes
  • malpositions — Plural form of malposition.
  • manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
  • mansplaining — (informal, pejorative) The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a female listener in order to appear knowledgable or from a mistaken presumption that she has an inferior understanding of the topic.
  • mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
  • manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • millilampson — /mil'*-lamp"sn/ A unit of talking speed, abbreviated mL. Most people run about 200 milliLampsons. The eponymous Butler Lampson (a CS theorist and systems implementor highly regarded among hackers) goes at 1000. A few people speak faster. This unit is sometimes used to compare the (sometimes widely disparate) rates at which people can generate ideas and actually emit them in speech. For example, noted computer architect C. Gordon Bell (designer of the PDP-11) is said, with some awe, to think at about 1200 mL but only talk at about 300; he is frequently reduced to fragments of sentences as his mouth tries to keep up with his speeding brain.
  • misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
  • mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
  • municipalism — the principle or system of home rule by a municipality.
  • neoplatonism — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
  • neoplatonist — a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
  • nephanalysis — a map or chart showing the distribution of types and amounts of clouds and precipitation at a given time.
  • nepotistical — Nepotistic.
  • neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
  • nonapostolic — Not apostolic.
  • nonexpansile — Not expansile.
  • nonspherical — not spherical
  • nonspiritual — Not spiritual.
  • np-hilarious — (humour)   An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
  • nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
  • nuptial mass — a special mass said at a wedding.
  • old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
  • oppositional — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
  • oppressional — Exhibiting or relating to oppression.
  • packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
  • pale-skinned — having pale skin
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