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12-letter words containing s, i, l, k, p

  • backslapping — Backslapping is noisy, cheerful behavior which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • blister pack — a type of packet in which small items are displayed and sold, consisting of a transparent dome of plastic or similar material mounted on a firm backing such as cardboard
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • display hack — (graphics)   A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
  • display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item
  • ekman spiral — a complex interaction on the surface of the sea between wind, rotation of the earth, and friction forces, discovered by Vagn Walfrid Ekman
  • fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
  • glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
  • hopkinsville — a city in S Kentucky.
  • impost block — dosseret.
  • kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
  • kinetoplasts — Plural form of kinetoplast.
  • klipspringer — a small, agile African antelope, Oreotragus oreotragus, of mountainous regions from the Cape of Good Hope to Ethiopia.
  • 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.
  • leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
  • leukopoiesis — the formation and development of white blood cells.
  • lickspittles — Plural form of lickspittle.
  • lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
  • lispkit lisp — Purely functional version of LISP. "Functional Programming, Application and Implementation", P. Henderson, P-H 1980.
  • marlinespike — a pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.
  • marlingspike — Alternative spelling of marlinspike.
  • milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
  • optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
  • pack of lies — false account
  • packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
  • pale-skinned — having pale skin
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • pekinologist — a person who studies the People's Republic of China
  • pencil skirt — women's garment: straight skirt
  • pink-slipped — (of an employee) given notice of redundancy
  • plain-spoken — candid; frank; blunt.
  • policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • poodle skirt — 1950s-style woman's circular skirt
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • public works — government-funded construction
  • risk capital — venture capital.
  • risk pooling — Risk pooling is the practice of sharing all risks among a group of insurance companies.
  • scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
  • schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • slipped disk — herniated disk.
  • slipper sock — a sock with a soft leather or vinyl sole sewn onto it, used as indoor footwear.
  • smoking lamp — formerly, a lamp aboard ship for lighting pipes, now used figuratively to indicate when smoking is or is not allowed: The smoking lamp is lit.
  • spark-killer — a device for diminishing sparking, consisting of a capacitor and a resistor connected in series across two points where sparking may occur in a circuit.
  • spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
  • split ticket — a ballot on which not all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
  • spree killer — a person who kills more than one victim in more than one location in a very short period of time.
  • strike plate — strike (def 67).

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