10-letter words containing a, p, l, n
- channel op — (messaging) /chan'l op/ (Or "op", "chan op", "chop") Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular IRC channel. These privileges include the right to kick users, to change various status bits and to make others into CHOPs. The full form, "channel operator", is almost never used.
- chapfallen — dejected; downhearted; crestfallen
- chaplaincy — A chaplaincy is the building or office in which a chaplain works.
- chopfallen — chapfallen
- clamp down — To clamp down on people or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
- clamp-down — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- clampdowns — Plural form of clampdown.
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- clinograph — (in mining, construction, etc.) an instrument that records the deviation of boreholes or the like from the vertical.
- clonazepam — a medication used to treat conditions that involve seizures
- collapsing — Present participle of collapse.
- collapsion — (archaic) collapse.
- collophane — a massive, cryptocrystalline variety of apatite that is the principal component of phosphate rock and fossil bone.
- compendial — Related to a compendium that serves as a standard, such as the w British Pharmacopoeia, or the w US Pharmacopeia.
- complacent — A complacent person is very pleased with themselves or feels that they do not need to do anything about a situation, even though the situation may be uncertain or dangerous.
- complained — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- complaints — A statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
- complanate — having a flattened or compressed aspect
- compliance — a disposition to yield to or comply with others
- compliancy — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- complicant — (of the elytra of a beetle) overlapping
- 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
- copulating — Present participle of copulate.
- copulation — 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.
- crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
- cynophilia — a love of dogs
- dawes plan — a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.
- deep clean — an exceptionally intense cleaning process
- dependable — If you say that someone or something is dependable, you approve of them because you feel that you can be sure that they will always act consistently or sensibly, or do what you need them to do.
- dependably — capable of being depended on; worthy of trust; reliable: a dependable employee.
- depilation — to remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc.).
- didelphian — of or relating to an animal in the Didelphia subclass of mammals
- displacing — Present participle of displace.
- displaying — to show or exhibit; make visible: to display a sign.
- downplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of downplay.
- drain plug — A drain plug is a plug which is taken out to allow a fluid to be drained from a tank such as an engine oil pan or sump.
- drop-panel — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- el capitan — a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada: a monolith with a precipice rising over 1100 m (3600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Height: 2306 m (7564 ft)
- elaeoptene — eleoptene
- elecampane — A plant that has yellow daisylike flowers with long slender petals and bitter aromatic roots that are used in herbal medicine, native to central Asia.
- empaneling — Present participle of empanel.
- empanelled — Simple past tense and past participle of empanel.
- emplastron — a plaster containing a balm or medication
- encephalic — of or relating to the brain
- encephalo- — indicating the brain