10-letter words containing c, a, l, i, p, e
- explicator — A person or thing who explicates.
- felspathic — feldspathic.
- filler cap — a device sealing the filling pipe to the petrol tank in a motor vehicle
- fireplaces — Plural form of fireplace.
- geoponical — agricultural
- gin palace — (formerly) a gaudy drinking house
- give place — to make room
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- high place — (in ancient Semitic religions) a place of worship, usually a temple or altar on a hilltop.
- impactable — Likely to be impacted.
- imparlance — an extension of time granted to one party in a lawsuit to plead or to settle the dispute amicably.
- impeccable — faultless; flawless; irreproachable: impeccable manners.
- impeccably — faultless; flawless; irreproachable: impeccable manners.
- implacable — not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.
- implicated — to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- implicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implicate.
- inculpable — not culpable; blameless; guiltless.
- inculpated — Simple past tense and past participle of inculpate.
- inculpates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inculpate.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- j particle — an early name for the J/psi particle.
- juliet cap — a skullcap, often set with pearls or other gems, worn by women for semiformal or bridal wear.
- kick plate — a metal plate fastened to the bottom of a door to resist blows and scratches.
- kick pleat — an inverted pleat extending upward 6 to 10 inches (15 to 25 cm) from the hemline at the back of a narrow skirt, to allow freedom in walking.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- leucopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.
- lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
- mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
- metaleptic — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- napoleonic — pertaining to, resembling, or suggestive of Napoleon I, or, less often, Napoleon III, or their dynasty: the Napoleonic era; a Napoleonic attitude toward one's employees.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
- palaeozoic — of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- paper clip — small clasp that holds papers together
- paper-clip — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
- paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- participle — an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend.
- pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.