10-letter words containing c, l, i, p, e, r
- necrophile — (sexuality) One who is subject to necrophilia.
- necrophily — Necrophilia.
- necropolis — a cemetery, especially one of large size and usually of an ancient city.
- old permic — a subfamily of Finnic, comprising the modern languages Udmurt and Komi, spoken in northeastern European Russia, and fragmentary attestations of an earlier language (Old Permic) dating from the 15th century.
- 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.
- 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.
- paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pin clover — alfilaria.
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- pleochroic — (of a biaxial crystal) characterized by pleochroism.
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- police car — squad car.
- polyhedric — resembling a polyhedron
- 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-exilic — being or occurring prior to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- preceptial — preceptive, instructive, didactic; conveying or consisting of precepts
- preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- preclusive — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- precooling — Precooling is a process which improves the performance of a unit by reducing the compressor load and the head pressure.
- predicable — that may be predicated or affirmed; assertable.
- preglacial — prior to a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
- preincline — to dispose or prepare beforehand: Their experiences had preinclined them to think pessimistically.
- prelection — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- 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.
- prepyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
- price list — a list giving the prices of items for sale.
- princeling — a young prince.