10-letter words containing s, l, i, p, n
- floppiness — tending to flop.
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- franz lisp — (language) A MacLisp-like dialect of Lisp, developed primarily for work in symbolic algebra by R. Fateman et al at Ucb in about 1980. It was named after the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Franz Lisp was written in C and includes a compiler called "Liszt". Version: Opus 38.22. Liszt 8.08.
- grapplings — Plural form of grappling.
- graspingly — In a grasping manner.
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- hispaniola — an island in the West Indies, comprising the republic of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 29,843 sq. mi. (77,293 sq. km).
- hyperlinks — Plural form of hyperlink.
- impersonal — not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
- implements — Plural form of implement.
- implosions — Plural form of implosion.
- imposingly — very impressive because of great size, stately appearance, dignity, elegance, etc.: Notre Dame, Rheims, and other imposing cathedrals of France.
- impulsions — Plural form of impulsion.
- in plaster — If you have a leg or arm in plaster, you have a cover made of plaster of Paris around your leg or arm, in order to protect a broken bone and allow it to mend.
- inceptisol — a soil so young that horizons have just begun to form: especially prevalent in tundra areas.
- inculpates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inculpate.
- inpossible — Obsolete spelling of impossible.
- inspirable — capable of being inspired.
- interlopes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlope.
- interplays — Plural form of interplay.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- isopycnals — Plural form of isopycnal.
- kannapolis — a town in W North Carolina.
- lagniappes — Plural form of lagniappe.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- lexiphanes — Plural form of lexiphane.
- limpidness — The property of being limpid, clarity.
- line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.
- lipofuscin — any of several brown pigments similar to melanin that accumulate in animal cells with age and are products of oxidation of lipids and lipoproteins.
- lisinopril — A drug of the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor class, primarily used in the treatment of hypertension, congestive heart failure, heart attacks, and certain complications of diabetes.
- lisp-linda — P. Dourish, U Edinburgh 1988.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- melanippus — a Theban who killed Tydeus in the battle of the Seven against Thebes and who was, in turn, slain by Amphiaraus.
- misexplain — (transitive) To explain incorrectly.
- mispelling — Misspelling of misspelling.
- misplacing — Present participle of misplace.
- misplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- monopolies — exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. Compare duopoly, oligopoly.
- monopolise — to acquire, have, or exercise a monopoly of.
- monopolism — the existence or prevalence of monopolies.
- monopolist — a person who has a monopoly.
- municipals — Plural form of municipal.
- necropolis — a cemetery, especially one of large size and usually of an ancient city.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- nippleless — Without nipples.
- nonpareils — Plural form of nonpareil.
- nonplastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- nonplusing — Present participle of nonplus.