10-letter words containing c, a, p, l
- corn plant — any of several treelike tropical plants of the genus Draecena, especially D. fragrans massangeana, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- corporally — of the human body; bodily; physical: corporal suffering.
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- coupleable — two of the same sort considered together; pair.
- crab apple — A crab apple is a tree like an apple tree that produces small sour fruit.
- cradle cap — a form of seborrhoea of the scalp common in young babies
- cramp ball — a hard round blackish ascomycetous fungus, Daldinia concentrica, characteristically found on the bark of ash trees and formerly carried to ward off cramp. The specific name refers to the concentric rings revealed if the fungus is sliced
- crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
- crawlspace — (in a building) an area accessible by crawling, having a clearance less than human height, for access to plumbing or wiring, storage, etc.
- cream pail — an open bowl of silver having a ladle or spoon for serving cream.
- curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- cycle path — A cycle path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- cyclic amp — cyclic adenosine monophosphate: a constituent of biological cells, responsible for triggering processes that are dependent on hormones
- cyclograph — Arcograph.
- cyclopedia — encyclopedia
- cynophilia — a love of dogs
- cytoplasms — Plural form of cytoplasm.
- cytoplasts — Plural form of cytoplast.
- d particle — D meson.
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
- deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
- deep clean — an exceptionally intense cleaning process
- deprecable — able to be deprecated
- depucelage — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
- despecable — Misspelling of despicable.
- despicable — If you say that a person or action is despicable, you are emphasizing that they are extremely nasty, cruel, or evil.
- despicably — deserving to be despised, or regarded with distaste, disgust, or disdain; contemptible: He was a mean, despicable man, who treated his wife and children badly.
- despotical — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
- diplacusis — a difference in hearing by the two ears so that one sound is heard as two.
- diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- disculpate — (transitive) To free from blame or the imputation of a fault; to exculpate.
- displacing — Present participle of displace.
- displacive — That involves or causes displacement.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
- dual space — the set of all linear functionals whose domain is a given vector space.
- duplicable — capable of being duplicated.
- duplicated — a copy exactly like an original.
- duplicates — Plural form of duplicate.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- duplicatus — (of a cloud) consisting of superposed layers that sometimes partially merge.
- dysplastic — Exhibiting dysplasia.
- echo plate — (in sound recording or broadcasting) an electromechanical device for producing echo and reverberation effects
- ecliptical — Astronomy. the great circle formed by the intersection of the plane of the earth's orbit with the celestial sphere; the apparent annual path of the sun in the heavens. an analogous great circle on a terrestrial globe.
- el capitan — a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada: a monolith with a precipice rising over 1100 m (3600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Height: 2306 m (7564 ft)
- elecampane — A plant that has yellow daisylike flowers with long slender petals and bitter aromatic roots that are used in herbal medicine, native to central Asia.
- elliptical — (of speech or writing) using or involving ellipsis, especially so as to be difficult to understand.
- emacs lisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp used to implement the higher layers of the Free Software Foundation's editor, GNU Emacs. Sometimes abbreviated to "elisp". An enormous number of Emacs Lisp packages have been written including modes for editing many programming languages and interfaces to many Unix programs.