12-letter words containing s, p, i, l, r
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- laparoscopic — a flexible fiberoptic instrument, passed through a small incision in the abdominal wall and equipped with biopsy forceps, an obturator, scissors or the like, with which to examine the abdominal cavity or perform minor surgery.
- laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- linear space — vector space.
- linespersons — Plural form of linesperson.
- lipoproteins — Plural form of lipoprotein.
- liposarcomas — Plural form of liposarcoma.
- 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.
- 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.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- malapropisms — Plural form of malapropism.
- malpractices — Plural form of malpractice.
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- 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.
- metropolises — any large, busy city.
- microcapsule — a tiny capsule, 20–150 microns in diameter, used for slow-release application of drugs, pesticides, flavors, etc.
- microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- milk parsley — a wetland plant belonging to the family Apiaceae
- milliamperes — Plural form of milliampere.
- misappraisal — the act of estimating or judging the nature or value of something or someone.
- misportrayal — the act of portraying.
- monopolizers — Plural form of monopolizer.
- morphallaxis — Biology. the regeneration of a destroyed body part by the reorganization of its remaining cells.
- morphologies — Plural form of morphology.
- morphologist — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- multiplexers — Plural form of multiplexer.
- multipresent — able to be present in several places simultaneously
- multipurpose — able to be used for several purposes: a multipurpose lawn spray.
- necrophilism — necrophilia.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- necropolises — Plural form of necropolis.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.