10-letter words containing a, l, o, c, t, e
- parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
- poetically — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- point lace — lace made with a needle rather than with bobbins; needlepoint.
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- 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.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- proctodeal — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
- pultaceous — resembling pap
- reactional — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- reallocate — to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
- relocation — to move (a building, company, etc.) to a different location: plans to relocate the firm to Houston.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- rhetorical — used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect.
- sacerdotal — of priests; priestly.
- schoolmate — a companion or associate at school.
- sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
- scottsdale — a city in central Arizona, near Phoenix.
- semiotical — of or relating to signs.
- shackleton — Sir Ernest Henry, 1874–1922, English explorer of the Antarctic.
- shellycoat — a mythical creature dressed in shells who haunts rivers and streams
- slot racer — slot car.
- societally — noting or pertaining to large social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
- soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
- solacement — a comfort or consolation
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- steam coal — coal with relatively high sulfur content, suited for generating steam but not for coking.
- steatocele — a fatty tumour located in the scrotum
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- table corn — Chiefly Eastern U.S. sweet corn.
- tablecloth — a cloth for covering the top of a table, especially during a meal.
- tailcoated — wearing a tailcoat
- terrachlor — pentachloronitrobenzene.
- tesla coil — an air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents.
- tiliaceous — belonging to the Tiliaceae, the linden family of plants.
- topicalize — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
- toto caelo — by the entire extent of the heavens; diametrically.
- towel rack — a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels or washcloths are hung.
- tracheolar — of or relating to the tracheole
- ulceration — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.