9-letter words containing s, l, i, p
- gigaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.
- gillespie — John Birks [burks] /bɜrks/ (Show IPA), ("Dizzy") 1917–93, U.S. jazz trumpeter and composer.
- gippsland — a fertile region of SE Australia, in SE Victoria, extending east along the coast from Melbourne to the New South Wales border. Area: 35 200 sq km (13 600 sq miles)
- glimpsing — Present participle of glimpse.
- goldspink — a goldfinch
- gospelise — evangelise
- gospelize — Preach the Gospel to; convert to Christianity.
- guildship — guild (defs 1, 2).
- half-slip — a woman's skirtlike undergarment, usually of a straight or slightly flared shape and having a narrow elasticized waistband.
- halfpipes — Plural form of halfpipe.
- heliopsis — a genus of herbaceous flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helistops — Plural form of helistop.
- helplines — Plural form of helpline.
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitals — Plural form of hospital.
- ideopolis — a city that is sustained primarily by intellectual enterprises such as education, the media, advertising, and design, with a highly educated workforce
- idioplasm — germ plasm.
- iliopsoas — (anatomy) A compound muscle composed of the iliac and psoas muscles.
- ill-spent — misspent; wasted.
- imperials — Plural form of imperial.
- impiously — not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
- implosion — the act of imploding; a bursting inward (opposed to explosion).
- implosive — characterized by a partial vacuum behind the point of closure.
- imposable — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- impulsing — Present participle of impulse.
- impulsion — the act of impelling, driving onward, or pushing.
- impulsive — actuated or swayed by emotional or involuntary impulses: an impulsive child.
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.
- insipidly — without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- isopolity — equal rights of citizenship, as in different communities; mutual political rights.
- isopropyl — containing the isopropyl group.
- isopycnal — Also, isopycnal [ahy-suh-pik-nl] /ˌaɪ səˈpɪk nl/ (Show IPA). having the same density.
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- jaspilite — a metamorphic rock that has a high concentration of hematite and that resembles jasper
- jillstrap — (informal) A pelvic protector, a woman's equivalent of a man's jockstrap.
- kalispell — a city in NW Montana.
- kiloflops — (unit) 1000 FLOPS. See prefix.
- kingklips — Plural form of kingklip.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- la spezia — a seaport in NW Italy, on the Ligurian Sea: naval base.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lampadist — (in ancient Greece) a competitor in a race run by young men with torches
- landslips — Plural form of landslip.
- lapideous — (obsolete) Of the nature of stone.