11-letter words containing s, t, e, p, l
- lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
- lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- lithophytes — Plural form of lithophyte.
- lithosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
- liver spots — a form of chloasma in which irregularly shaped light-brown spots occur on the skin.
- lobster pot — a trap for catching lobsters, typically a box made of wooden slats with a funnellike entrance to the bait.
- lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
- lymphocytes — Plural form of lymphocyte.
- manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
- master plan — A master plan is a clever plan that is intended to help someone succeed in a very difficult or important task.
- master-plan — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- metacarpals — Plural form of metacarpal.
- metaplasmic — Cell Biology. the nonliving matter or inclusions, as starch or pigments, within a cell.
- metaplastic — the transformation of one type of tissue into another.
- metapodials — Plural form of metapodial.
- most-lupine — pertaining to or resembling the wolf.
- mount siple — a mountain in Antarctica, on the coast of Byrd Land. Height: 3100 m (10 171 ft)
- multiperson — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- multiplanes — Plural form of multiplane.
- multiplexes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of multiplex.
- multipliers — Plural form of multiplier.
- nemophilist — (rare) One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.
- neopopulist — pertaining to a revival of populism, especially a sophisticated form appealing to commonplace values and prejudices.
- neoptolemus — the son of Achilles, who slew Priam at the fall of Troy.
- nephroliths — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- north slope — the northern coastal area of Alaska, rich in oil and natural gas: so called because it is N of the Brooks Range sloping down to the Arctic Ocean.
- nympholepts — Plural form of nympholept.
- object lisp — (language) An object-oriented Lisp developed by Lisp Machines Inc. (LMI) in about 1987. Object Lisp was based on nested closures and operator shadowing. Several competing object-orientated extensions to Lisp were around at the time, such as Flavors, in use by Symbolics; Common Objects, developed by Hewlett-Packard; and CommonLoops in use by Xerox. LMI submitted the specification as a candidate for an object-oriented standard for Common Lisp, but it was defeated in favour of CLOS.
- oenophilist — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- osteoplasty — plastic surgery on a bone to repair a defect or loss.
- outsleeping — Present participle of outsleep.
- outspokenly — In an outspoken manner.
- palestinian — a native or inhabitant of Palestine.
- palletising — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palm desert — a town in S California, near Palm Springs.
- palmatisect — (of leaves) having palmate veins and lobes split almost to the base of the blade.
- panel strip — one of a number of strips of wood or metal laid upon the surface of a wall, ceiling, etc., so as to divide it into a number of broad areas, usually in order to conceal joints between sheets of composition material forming the surface.
- parallelist — a person who seeks or makes a comparison.
- parcel post — (in the U.S. Postal Service) nonpreferential mail consisting of packages and parcels, weighing one pound or more sent at fourth-class rates. Compare fourth class.
- partialness — being such in part only; not total or general; incomplete: partial blindness; a partial payment of a debt.
- partnerless — the person with whom one cohabits in a romantic relationship: I'd like you to meet my partner, Sarah.
- pasteurella — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pasturella, certain species of which are parasitic and pathogenic for humans and animals.
- pastoralize — to make pastoral or rural.
- pastureland — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pastureless — without pasture, free of pasture