10-letter words containing c, i, r, l, p
- 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
- 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.
- pannicular — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- 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.
- paralympic — of or relating to the Paralympics
- paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- paris club — an informal group of representatives from IMF member nations whose governments or central banks have lent money to governments of other countries
- parsonical — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- 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.
- 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.
- peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
- percentile — one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into 100 groups having equal frequencies: Ninety percent of the values lie at or below the ninetieth percentile, ten percent above it.
- perchloric — of or derived from perchloric acid.
- periapical — encompassing or surrounding the tip of the root of a tooth.
- periclinal — of or relating to a pericline
- periculous — dangerous; perilous
- periodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- perlucidus — (of a cloud) having transparent spaces between the elements.
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
- 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.
- piercingly — loud or shrill, as the quality of a voice.
- pilgarlick — a bald person; a person looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity
- pin clover — alfilaria.
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- placarding — a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer.
- playscript — the manuscript of a play, especially as prepared for use by actors in rehearsals.
- pleochroic — (of a biaxial crystal) characterized by pleochroism.
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- poculiform — having the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- police car — squad car.
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polycarpic — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polychroic — having many colours
- polycrotic — having multiple beats or peaks
- polyhedric — resembling a polyhedron