12-letter words containing s, e, p, i
- kinetoplasts — Plural form of kinetoplast.
- king's peace — (in early medieval England) the protection secured by the king for particular people or places
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- klipspringer — a small, agile African antelope, Oreotragus oreotragus, of mountainous regions from the Cape of Good Hope to Ethiopia.
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- lateral lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- ledger strip — a piece attached to the face of a beam at the bottom as a support for the ends of joists.
- lepenski vir — the site of an advanced Mesolithic fishing culture on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, characterized by trapezoidal buildings and large stone sculptures of human heads and torsos.
- lepidosirens — Plural form of lepidosiren.
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
- leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
- leucopoiesis — the formation and development of white blood cells.
- leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
- leukopoiesis — the formation and development of white blood cells.
- liberty ship — a slow cargo ship built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and having a capacity of about 11,000 deadweight tons.
- lickspittles — Plural form of lickspittle.
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- 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
- limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
- line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
- linear space — vector space.
- linespersons — Plural form of linesperson.
- lipoproteins — Plural form of lipoprotein.
- 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.
- listenership — the people or number of people who listen to a radio station, record, type of music, etc.: The station has a listenership of 200,000.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- 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.
- litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
- live spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- 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.
- machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
- madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
- magpie goose — a black-and-white gooselike bird, Anseranas semipalmatus, of Australia, believed to be the most primitive waterfowl in existence.
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- manspreading — the practice by a male passenger on public transport of sitting with his legs wide apart, so denying space to passengers beside him
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- marine corps — a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces trained for land, sea, and air combat, typically for land combat in conjunction with an amphibious or airborne landing, and whose commandant is responsible to the secretary of the navy.