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10-letter words containing a, p, l, u

  • 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.
  • paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
  • particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
  • pascagoula — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
  • pasquilant — the writer of a pasquinade
  • pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
  • patibulary — of or relating to a gallows or an execution
  • paul flory — Paul John, 1910–85, U.S. chemist: pioneer in research on polymers; Nobel Prize 1974.
  • paul jones — an old-time dance in which partners are exchanged
  • pausefully — in a pauseful manner
  • peacefully — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
  • 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 blue — a light bluish gray.
  • peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
  • 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.
  • pedipalpus — the second paired appendage in Arachnida
  • peduncular — Botany. a flower stalk, supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower. the stalk bearing the fruiting body in fungi.
  • pelagius i — died a.d. 561, pope 556–561.
  • pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
  • pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
  • penannular — having the shape or design of an incomplete circle.
  • peninsular — an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
  • perceptual — of, relating to, or involving perception.
  • perdurable — very durable; permanent; imperishable.
  • perineural — located around a nerve or bunch of nerves; surrounding a nerve
  • permutable — to alter; change.
  • persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
  • petrolatum — a translucent gelatinous substance obtained from petroleum; used as a lubricant and in medicine as an ointment base and protective dressing
  • phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
  • photomural — a wall decoration consisting of a very large photograph or photographs.
  • picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
  • plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
  • plain suit — a suit other than the trump suit.
  • plankalkül — (language, history)   (Or "Plankalkuel" if you don't have umlauts). The first programming language, designed by Konrad Zuse, ca. 1945. Zuse wrote "Rechenplan allgemeiner Struktur" in 1944 which developed into Plankalkül. Plankalkül included arrays and records and used a style of assignment in which the new value appears on the right. Zuse wrote Plankalkül for his Z3 computer (finished before 1945) and implemented it on there as well. Much of his work may have been either lost or confiscated in the aftermath of World War II.
  • plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
  • plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
  • plateauing — a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
  • platterful — a heaped plate or platter
  • plauditory — approving or laudatory
  • play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
  • play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
  • play up to — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • play-lunch — a schoolchild's mid-morning snack
  • played out — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • playground — an area used for outdoor play or recreation, especially by children, and often containing recreational equipment such as slides and swings.
  • pleasuring — the state or feeling of being pleased.
  • plenilunar — relating to a full moon
  • plesiosaur — any marine reptile of the extinct genus Plesiosaurus, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, a long neck, four paddlelike limbs, and a short tail.
  • ploughable — able to be ploughed
  • ploughgate — a measurement of ploughable land
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