10-letter words containing c, a, p, l
- 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.
- pre-climax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- pre-launch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- preceptial — preceptive, instructive, didactic; conveying or consisting of precepts
- predicable — that may be predicated or affirmed; assertable.
- preglacial — prior to a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- prelexical — denoting or applicable at a stage in the formation of a sentence at which words and phrases have not yet replaced all of the underlying grammatical and semantic material of that sentence in the speaker's mind
- prelogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
- premedical — of or relating to studies in preparation for the formal study of medicine: a premedical course.
- prenuclear — of or relating to the era before the development of nuclear weapons.
- prevalence — the condition of being prevalent, or widespread: the prevalence of AIDS in developing countries.
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
- principial — original, elementary
- procedural — procedural language
- processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- 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
- proctodeal — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
- procurable — obtainable.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- prolicidal — characteristic of prolicide
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- protocolar — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
- provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- public act — public law (def 1).
- public bar — (in a tavern or pub) the common section of a bar or barroom, not as exclusive, as quiet, or as comfortably furnished as the saloon section.
- public law — Also called public act, public statute. a law or statute of a general character that applies to the people of a whole state or nation.
- pulp canal — root canal.
- pulsatance — the angular frequency of a periodic motion
- pultaceous — resembling pap
- punctually — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- punctulate — studded with minute points or dots.
- race plate — a metallic, plastic, or wooden strip directly in front of the reed on the lay of a loom, along which the shuttle travels in its passage through the shed.
- ralph cram — Ralph Adams, 1863–1942, U.S. architect and writer.
- receptacle — a container, device, etc., that receives or holds something: a receptacle for trash.
- reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- repellance — the act of repelling; a repellent quality or trait, repellence
- replicable — capable of replication: The scientific experiment must be replicable in all details to be considered valid.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- reply card — a usually postage-paid postcard or coupon that can be mailed back to the sender to place an order, request information, or the like.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- roach clip — a small tweezerlike clip for holding the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
- rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- salary cap — a maximum limit on salaries.
- sale price — discounted cost
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.