10-letter words containing a, c, r, o, p, l
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- explicator — A person or thing who explicates.
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- holocarpic — (of a fungus) having the entire thallus converted into fruiting bodies.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- incorporal — Obsolete form of incorporeal.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kleptocrat — a government official who is a thief or exploiter.
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- laparocele — (medicine) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- marco polo — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), c1254–1324, Venetian traveler.
- micropylar — Of or pertaining to micropyles.
- narcolepsy — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- operculate — having an operculum.
- overplaced — placed above
- palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
- palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parlor car — a railroad passenger car that has individual reserved seats and is more comfortable than a day coach.
- parsonical — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
- patrilocal — virilocal.
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patrol car — squad car.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- percolator — a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up a hollow stem, filters down through ground coffee in a sievelike container, and returns to the pot below.
- periodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- petrol can — a container for carrying petrol
- petrol cap — a small cover that goes over the hole in a vehicle into which you put petrol
- phallocrat — a male who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
- pharmacol. — pharmacology
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- plutocracy — the rule or power of wealth or of the wealthy.
- police car — squad car.
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polycarpic — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- postocular — located behind the eye
- pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
- prelogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.