10-letter words containing a, l, i, p, t, e
- neapolitan — of, relating to, or characteristic of Naples: a Neapolitan love song.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- ophiolater — a person who worships snakes
- oppilative — obstructive; blocking
- optatively — In an optative way.
- optionable — the power or right of choosing.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
- palaeolith — a stone tool dating to the Palaeolithic
- palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
- palatalize — to articulate (a consonant other than a normal palatal) as a palatal or with relatively more contact between the blade of the tongue and the hard palate, as in certain pronunciations of the l- sound in million.
- palatinate — the. either of two historic regions of Germany that constituted an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire: one (Lower Palatinate, or Rhine Palatinate, ) is now part of Rhineland-Palatinate and the other (Upper Palatinate, ) is now part of Bavaria.
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- palletized — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palletizer — a machine that packs, dismantles, or secures pallets
- palliament — a long robe
- palliative — serving to palliate.
- palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- papillated — having papillae
- parentlike — a father or a mother.
- parimutuel — a system of betting on races in which those backing the winners divide, in proportion to their wagers, the total amount bet, minus a percentage for the track operators, taxes, etc.
- parliament — (usually initial capital letter) the legislature of Great Britain, historically the assembly of the three estates, now composed of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal, forming together the House of Lords, and representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs, and universities, forming the House of Commons.
- parnellite — Charles Stewart, 1846–91, Irish political leader.
- parrotlike — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- partialize — to bias.
- participle — an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend.
- party line — the authorized, prescribed policies and practices of a group, especially of the Communist Party, usually followed by the members without deviation; official philosophy or credo.
- pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- patrialise — to make patrial, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK
- patrialize — to give a legal right to enter and stay in a country
- peanut oil — a yellow to greenish oil expressed or extracted from peanuts, used in cookery, as a vehicle for medicines, and in the manufacture of margarine and soap.
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
- 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.
- pedantical — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pediculate — of or related to the Pediculati, a group of teleost fishes, characterized by the elongated base of their pectoral fins, simulating an arm or peduncle.
- penetralia — the innermost parts of a building
- pentaploid — having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number.
- pentapolis — a group or federation of five cities; esp in reference to various ancient (Biblical and Classical) federations of five cities or towns
- perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
- peridental — periodontal.
- perimetral — the border or outer boundary of a two-dimensional figure.
- peripteral — (of a classical temple or other structure) surrounded by a single row of columns.
- peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- pestalozzi — Johann Heinrich [German yoh-hahn hahyn-rikh] /German ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1746–1827, Swiss educational reformer.
- philatelic — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.