10-letter words containing a, p, o, l, i, r
- peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
- personalia — the accoutrements, concerns, or intimations that are personal to one
- phialiform — having a form like that of a saucer
- piano roll — a roll of paper containing perforations such that air passing through them actuates the keys of a player piano.
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pileorhiza — a calyptra
- pillar box — a pillarlike box in which letters are deposited for collection by mail carriers; mailbox.
- pirandello — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1934.
- plane iron — the blade of a plane.
- plauditory — approving or laudatory
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- 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.
- polar axis — the fixed line, usually horizontal, from which the angle made by the radius vector is measured in a polar coordinate system.
- polarising — to cause polarization in.
- polarizing — to cause polarization in.
- police car — squad car.
- pollinator — to convey pollen to the stigma of (a flower).
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polycarpic — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- pool train — a train operating over a track owned by two or more railway companies.
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularist — designed for the general public; non-specialist; non-intellectual
- popularity — the quality or fact of being popular.
- popularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- port blair — a seaport in and the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, on S Andaman.
- portlaoise — a town in central Republic of Ireland, county town of Laois: site of a top-security prison. Pop: 12 127 (2002)
- prairillon — a small prairie.
- 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.
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- prelogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- prenominal — being such in name only; so-called; putative: a nominal treaty; the nominal head of the country.
- prevail on — to persuade; induce
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
- primordial — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- pro-family — that favors or benefits families
- proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- prodigally — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- prolicidal — characteristic of prolicide
- pronominal — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
- proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
- proverbial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providable — to make available; furnish: to provide employees with various benefits.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.