12-letter words containing u, l, p, i, a
- labour pains — the pains felt during the contractions of childbirth
- lapidicolous — living under stones
- lapis lazuli — a deep-blue mineral composed mainly of lazurite with smaller quantities of other minerals, used mainly as a gem or as a pigment.
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- leprosariums — Plural form of leprosarium.
- lilliputians — Plural form of lilliputian.
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- litmus paper — a strip of paper impregnated with litmus, used as a chemical indicator.
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- mains supply — electricity, water, or gas supplied to a building through wires or pipes
- make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- manipulating — Present participle of manipulate.
- manipulation — the act of manipulating.
- manipulative — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- manipulators — Plural form of manipulator.
- manipulatory — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- manuscriptal — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to manuscript.
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- 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.
- mitteleuropa — Central Europe.
- multi-parity — of or relating to a multipara.
- multi-pascal — An extension of Pascal-S with multiprocessing features. Used in "The Art of Parallel Programming", Bruce P. Lester, P-H 1993.
- multicipital — (of a rhizome or root) producing several crowns
- multipartite — divided into several or many parts; having several or many divisions.
- multipathing — (computing) A network facility providing fault tolerance and load-spreading for network interface cards, each interface being assigned a static
- multipliable — capable of being multiplied.
- multiplicand — a number to be multiplied by another.
- multiplicate — multiple; manifold.
- multiseptate — having several septa or chambers
- municipalism — the principle or system of home rule by a municipality.
- municipality — a city, town, or other district possessing corporate existence and usually its own local government.
- municipalize — to make a municipality of.
- neuroplastic — Of or pertaining to neuroplasticity.
- neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
- nonmunicipal — Not municipal.
- nonspiritual — Not spiritual.
- np-hilarious — (humour) An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- nuptial mass — a special mass said at a wedding.
- occupational — of or relating to an occupation, trade, or calling: occupational guidance.
- olap council — (body, standard) A body formed in early 1995 to work on a cross-product API for OLAP. After little success it was replaced by the Analytical Solutions Forum.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- oligophagous — (especially of insects) eating only a few types of food.
- ophiolatrous — of, relating to, or practising snake-worshipping
- paludicolous — inhabiting marshland
- panhellenium — an institution founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian idealizing Greece's Classical history
- pansexualism — the belief that a sexual instinct drives all human behaviour
- pansexualist — someone who is pansexual
- pansexuality — Psychiatry. pertaining to the theory that all human behavior is based on sexuality.