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10-letter words containing c, a, p, l

  • leprechaun — a dwarf or sprite.
  • leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
  • leucopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
  • leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
  • 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.
  • local loop — (communications)   The circuits between a telephone subscriber's residence or business and the switching equipment at the local central office.
  • low-impact — Low-impact exercise does not put a lot of stress on your body.
  • lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
  • lunch-pail — lunchbox.
  • lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
  • lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
  • lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
  • machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
  • marco polo — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), c1254–1324, Venetian traveler.
  • mast clamp — a pierced slab of hardwood built into the deck structure of a small ship or boat to receive the force of the mast, which is fitted tightly through it.
  • match play — play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won by each side.
  • mcpartland — Marian, 1918–2013, British jazz pianist and composer, in U.S. since 1946.
  • mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
  • metacarpal — of or relating to the metacarpus.
  • metaleptic — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
  • micropylar — Of or pertaining to micropyles.
  • misplacing — Present participle of misplace.
  • multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
  • municipals — Plural form of municipal.
  • mycoplasma — any of numerous parasitic microorganisms of the class Mollicutes, comprising the smallest self-reproducing prokaryotes, lacking a true cell wall and able to survive without oxygen: a common cause of pneumonia and urinary tract infections.
  • myopically — Very closely; as if suffering from myopia.
  • 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.
  • narcolepsy — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
  • 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.
  • non placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
  • 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.
  • nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
  • nontypical — not typical; unusual
  • notaphilic — of or pertaining to notaphily
  • null-space — the set of elements of a vector space that a given linear transformation maps to zero.
  • nyctalopia — night blindness.
  • nyctalopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in low light; night-blind; suffering from nyctalopia.
  • occipitals — Plural form of occipital.
  • occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • octaploidy — the fact of having or containing eight groups or sets of chromosomes
  • opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
  • opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
  • operculate — having an operculum.
  • ophthalmic — of or relating to the eye; ocular.
  • overplaced — placed above
  • oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
  • pack drill — a military punishment by which the offender is made to march about carrying a full pack of equipment
  • pack trail — a path or route suitable for pack animals
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