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

  • phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
  • phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  • 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.
  • place card — a small card with the name of a guest on it, placed on the table, to indicate where he or she is to sit.
  • plate rack — a rack where you put plates after you have washed them or to store them
  • pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
  • police car — squad car.
  • polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • proctodeal — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
  • procurable — obtainable.
  • pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
  • provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
  • sale price — discounted cost
  • sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
  • screenplay — a motion-picture or television scenario.
  • screwplate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
  • sepulchral — of, relating to, or serving as a tomb.
  • simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
  • spectrally — of or relating to a specter; ghostly; phantom.
  • speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
  • supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
  • superclass — a category of related classes within a phylum or subphylum.
  • superclean — exceptionally clean
  • superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
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