10-letter words containing a, l, o, p
- complicacy — the condition or quality of being complicated
- complicant — (of the elytra of a beetle) overlapping
- complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
- composable — to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements: He composed his speech from many research notes.
- computable — computability theory
- conceptual — Conceptual means related to ideas and concepts formed in the mind.
- cone plant — any dwarf succulent of the genus Conophytum, native to southern Africa.
- contraplex — relating to the transmission of two messages in opposite directions simultaneously
- cop a feel — to perceive or examine by touch.
- cop a plea — to plead guilty to a criminal charge, esp. so as to get a lighter sentence
- coprolalia — obsessive use of obscene or foul language
- copulating — Present participle of copulate.
- copulation — sexual intercourse.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- coral pink — a light to medium yellowish-pink color.
- corn plant — any of several treelike tropical plants of the genus Draecena, especially D. fragrans massangeana, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- corporally — of the human body; bodily; physical: corporal suffering.
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- coupleable — two of the same sort considered together; pair.
- cyclograph — Arcograph.
- cyclopedia — encyclopedia
- cynophilia — a love of dogs
- cytoplasms — Plural form of cytoplasm.
- cytoplasts — Plural form of cytoplast.
- deoppilate — to remove obstructions (from)
- depilation — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- deplorable — If you say that something is deplorable, you think that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- deplorably — causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
- deployable — able to be deployed
- depolarize — to undergo or cause to undergo a loss of polarity or polarization
- depopulate — To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
- deportable — liable to deportation
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- deutoplasm — nutritive material in a cell, esp the yolk in a developing ovum
- dipetalous — bipetalous.
- diplomates — Plural form of diplomate.
- diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- diplophase — the diploid part of an organism's life cycle.
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- disepalous — having two sepals.
- disposable — designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up: disposable plastic spoons; a disposable cigarette lighter.
- dog paddle — a simple swimming stroke in which the body is kept nearly upright, the arms paddle, and the legs move up and down as in running
- dog-paddle — to swim or keep afloat by use of the dog paddle.
- dollar gap — the difference, measured in U.S. dollars, between the earnings of a foreign country through sales and investments in the U.S. and the payments made by that country to the U.S.
- dollarship — the fact of being denominated in dollars
- dollarspot — a turf disease caused by the fungus Sclerotinia or related genera, characterized by small, brown to straw-colored, round patches of dead grass that gradually spread and coalesce.
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- dorsal lip — the dorsal marginal region of the blastopore, which acts as a center of differentiation: as cells move through this region to the interior of the embryo during gastrulation, they acquire the ability to induce the overlying ectoderm to develop into a variety of tissues.