10-letter words containing a, p, l, u
- lump sugar — sugar in small blocks
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- lunch-pail — lunchbox.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
- mallowpuff — a white marshmallow on a biscuit base and covered with chocolate
- manipulate — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
- map turtle — any of several aquatic turtles of the genus Graptemys, as G. geographica, of the eastern and central U.S., usually having yellow stripes on the head and neck.
- marsupials — Plural form of marsupial.
- melanippus — a Theban who killed Tydeus in the battle of the Seven against Thebes and who was, in turn, slain by Amphiaraus.
- menopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- modula-3pi — Machine-independent intermediate language for compilation of Modula-3*. "Modula-3pi Language Definition", E.A. Heinz, TR, U Karlsruhe 1993.
- mpumalanga — a province of E South Africa; formed in 1994 (originally as Eastern Transvaal) from part of the former province of Transvaal: agriculture and service industries. Capital: Nelspruit. Pop: 4 039 939 (2011 est). Area: 78 370 sq km (30 259 sq miles)
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
- multipaned — having or comprising more than one pane, esp of glass
- multiparae — Plural form of multipara.
- multiparty — of or relating to more than two political parties.
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiplane — Consisting of several planes or surfaces.
- multiplant — comprising or involving more than one plant
- multipolar — having several or many poles.
- municipals — Plural form of municipal.
- musk plant — a perennial North American plant (Mimulus moschatus) of the figwort family, with yellow tubular flowers and, sometimes, a musky odor
- nalbuphine — a potent synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 7 NO 4 , used as an analgesic for moderate to severe pain.
- natal plum — a southern African bushy shrub, Carissa grandiflora, of the dogbane family, having forked spines, white flowers, and egg-shaped, red berries.
- neopallium — neocortex.
- neuroplasm — the cytoplasm of a nerve cell.
- null-space — the set of elements of a vector space that a given linear transformation maps to zero.
- nulliparae — Plural form of nullipara.
- nulliparas — Plural form of nullipara.
- nuptiality — The frequency or incidence of marriage within a population.
- occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- operculate — having an operculum.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- page fault — (memory management) In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal.
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
- palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- pannicular — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- papal bull — bull2 (def 2).
- papulation — the formation or development of papules
- paracelsus — Philippus Aureolus [fi-lip-uh s aw-ree-oh-luh s] /fɪˈlɪp əs ɔˈri oʊ ləs/ (Show IPA), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) 1493?–1541, Swiss physician and alchemist.
- parasexual — of or relating to any form of reproduction in which the recombination of genes occurs by a process other than the fusion of gametes
- parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.