10-letter words containing c, a, p, i, t, l
- 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.
- kilpatrick — Hugh Judson [juhd-suh n] /ˈdʒʌd sən/ (Show IPA), 1836–81, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- low-impact — Low-impact exercise does not put a lot of stress on your body.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
- metaleptic — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
- 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.
- noncapital — (of an offense) not punishable by death.
- nonplastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- nontypical — not typical; unusual
- notaphilic — of or pertaining to notaphily
- nyctalopia — night blindness.
- nyctalopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in low light; night-blind; suffering from nyctalopia.
- occipitals — Plural form of occipital.
- octaploidy — the fact of having or containing eight groups or sets of chromosomes
- ophthalmic — of or relating to the eye; ocular.
- pack trail — a path or route suitable for pack animals
- paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
- 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.
- 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.
- panic bolt — a bar that spans an emergency exit door on its interior and opens the latch when pressure is applied.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- papistical — of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
- 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.
- 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.
- pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pathologic — of or relating to pathology.
- patricidal — the act of killing one's own father.
- patricliny — patrocliny.
- patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
- patrilocal — virilocal.
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- pedantical — ostentatious in one's learning.
- 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.
- phatically — in a phatic manner
- philatelic — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
- phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
- phthisical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected by phthisis.
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- 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.
- pina cloth — a fine, sheer fabric of pineapple-leaf fiber, used especially for lingerie.