12-letter words containing s, p, l, a, n, c
- landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- laryngoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope passed through the mouth and equipped with a source of light and magnification, for examining and performing local diagnostic and surgical procedures on the larynx.
- laryngoscopy — an examination by means of a laryngoscope.
- line spacing — (in a book, computer-produced document, etc) the spacing between lines of type
- linear space — vector space.
- lip-smacking — tasty, mouth-watering
- 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.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- mantelpieces — Plural form of mantelpiece.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- misplacement — to put in a wrong place.
- municipalism — the principle or system of home rule by a municipality.
- nepotistical — Nepotistic.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- nonapostolic — Not apostolic.
- nonspherical — not spherical
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- opalescently — In an opalescent manner.
- packing slip — A packing slip is a list of what is included in a shipment.
- pascal-linda — Ian Flockhart, U Edinburgh, 1991. Under development.
- patroclinous — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- peacefulness — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- pearlescence — a pearly lustre or sheen
- percussional — of or relating to percussion
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- planck's law — the law that energy associated with electromagnetic radiation, as light, is composed of discrete quanta of energy, each quantum equal to Planck's constant times the corresponding frequency of the radiation: the fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
- plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
- platanaceous — relating to the family Platanaceae
- plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
- poeticalness — the characteristic of being poetical
- polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
- porcelainous — made of or resembling porcelain
- porcelaneous — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- porcellanise — to bake into porcelain
- post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- postcolonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine
- pratincolous — living in a meadow.
- precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
- processional — of, relating to, or characteristic of a procession.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- prostacyclin — a prostaglandin, C 2 0 H 3 2 O 5 , that specifically inhibits the formation of blood clots.
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.