11-letter words containing s, t, p
- lickspittle — a contemptible, fawning person; a servile flatterer or toady.
- lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
- lipomatosis — a genetic disorder which manifests itself in the abnormal growth of fat
- liposuction — the surgical withdrawal of excess fat from local areas under the skin by means of a small incision and vacuum suctioning.
- lipotropins — Plural form of lipotropin.
- 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.
- lithographs — Plural form of lithograph.
- lithophytes — Plural form of lithophyte.
- lithosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
- lithotripsy — the pulverization and removal of urinary calculi using a lithotripter.
- 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.
- local stamp — stamp (def 22).
- loop stitch — any stitch, as the chain stitch, that uses loops in the pattern or process of working.
- lost pleiad — See under Pleiades (def 1).
- lotusscript — (language) A Visual BASIC-like scripting language for Lotus Notes and Lotus SmartSuite. LotusScript is object-oriented and can be used for complex Notes programming, although Java is also available.
- lymphoblast — a large, metabolically active lymphocyte shortly before it enters into mitosis.
- lymphocytes — Plural form of lymphocyte.
- lyosorption — the adsorption of a liquid on a solid surface, esp of a solvent on suspended particles
- macrophytes — Plural form of macrophyte.
- maintopmast — (nautical) The topmast of the mainmast.
- maintopsail — a topsail set on the mainmast.
- malapropist — a person who regularly makes malapropisms
- malposition — faulty or wrong position, especially of a part or organ of the body or of a fetus in the uterus.
- mammaplasty — (surgery) Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
- mammoplasty — reconstruction or alteration in size or contour of the female breast.
- manipulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of manipulate.
- manuscripts — Plural form of manuscript.
- master copy — an original copy, stencil, tape, etc, from which duplicates are made
- master plan — A master plan is a clever plan that is intended to help someone succeed in a very difficult or important task.
- master tape — an original copy of an audio tape that can be used to produce other copies
- master-plan — to construct a master plan for: to master-plan one's career.
- masterpiece — a person's greatest piece of work, as in an art.
- mastoplasty — (surgery) Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
- mecopterans — Plural form of mecopteran.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
- megaphonist — Someone who uses a megaphone.
- mentoplasty — plastic surgery to correct a functional or cosmetic deformity of the chin.
- mesopotamia — an ancient region in W Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: now part of Iraq.
- mesotherapy — a cosmetic procedure in which minute doses of medication, vitamins, etc, are injected repeatedly into the mesodermal tissue under the skin to promote fat loss
- mesotrophic — (of freshwater lakes) containing medium levels of nutrients
- metacarpals — Plural form of metacarpal.
- metanephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.
- metaphorist — a creator or user of metaphors
- metaphrased — Translated literally.
- metaphrases — Plural form of metaphrase.
- metaphrasis — a metaphrase
- metaphrasts — Plural form of metaphrast.
- metaphysics — metaphysics.
- metaplasmic — Cell Biology. the nonliving matter or inclusions, as starch or pigments, within a cell.