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12-letter words containing t, i, p, l

  • interpleaded — Simple past tense and past participle of interplead.
  • interpleader — a party who interpleads.
  • interpleural — situated between the pleurae
  • interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
  • interpolable — able to be interpolated, or suited to interpolation
  • interpolated — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
  • interpolates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interpolate.
  • interpolator — to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose; intercalate.
  • interspatial — a space between things.
  • interspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
  • interspersal — Interspersion.
  • interspliced — Simple past tense and past participle of intersplice.
  • interspousal — Often, spousals. the ceremony of marriage; nuptials.
  • ip telephony — (communications)   (IPT, Internet Telephony) Use of IP data connections to exchange voice and fax data that have traditionally been carried over the public switched telephone network. During the late 1990s, an increasing number of telephone calls have been routed over the Internet. Calls made in this way avoid PSTN charges. Unlike traditional telephony, IP telephony is relatively unregulated. Companies providing these services are known as Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs). They include telephone companies, cable TV companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). There are still many problems with voice quality, latency, compression algorithms, and quality of service. See also Computer Telephone Integration.
  • isapi filter — (web)   A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
  • isotopically — With regard to isotopes.
  • isotopologue — (chemistry) any of a group of compounds only differing in their isotopic composition; for example water and heavy water.
  • itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
  • jet airplane — jet plane.
  • keep it real — avoid affectation
  • kinetoplasts — Plural form of kinetoplast.
  • kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
  • kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
  • lactoprotein — any protein existing in milk.
  • lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
  • lamp trimmer — a sailor responsible for keeping the oil lamps of a ship burning brightly, especially the deck and navigation lamps.
  • lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
  • landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
  • laparotomies — Plural form of laparotomy.
  • laparotomize — to perform a laparotomy on.
  • lapped joint — a joint made by placing one member over another and fastening them together
  • 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.
  • leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
  • lepidopteran — lepidopterous.
  • lepidopteron — any lepidopterous insect.
  • leptocephali — Plural form of leptocephalus.
  • leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
  • liberty pole — Also called liberty tree. American History. a pole or tree, often with a liberty cap or a banner at the top, usually located on a village green or in a market square, used by the Sons of Liberty in many colonial towns as a symbol of protest against British rule and around which anti-British rallies were held.
  • 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.
  • lickspittles — Plural form of lickspittle.
  • life partner — one member of a monogamous relationship.
  • 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.
  • lilliputians — Plural form of lilliputian.
  • limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
  • line printer — a printer that produces an entire line of output at a time.
  • lipoproteina — a plasma lipoprotein containing protein and cholesterol, high levels of which are associated with atherosclerosis.
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