10-letter words containing c, l, i, p, s
- 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.
- lipofuscin — any of several brown pigments similar to melanin that accumulate in animal cells with age and are products of oxidation of lipids and lipoproteins.
- lipsticked — Decorated with lipstick.
- list price — the price at which a product is usually sold to the public and from which a trade discount is computed by a wholesaler.
- livescript — JavaScript
- logopedics — the study and treatment of speech defects.
- lunchpails — Plural form of lunchpail.
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- mesophilic — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- micropolis — a small city
- micropyles — Plural form of micropyle.
- microsleep — a moment of sleep followed by disorientation, experienced especially by persons suffering from narcolepsy or sleep deprivation.
- misplacing — Present participle of misplace.
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
- municipals — Plural form of municipal.
- necropolis — a cemetery, especially one of large size and usually of an ancient city.
- 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.
- 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.
- occipitals — Plural form of occipital.
- octoploids — Plural form of octoploid.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- papistical — of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- 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.
- paschal ii — (Ranieri) died 1118, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1099–1118.
- pecos bill — a legendary cowboy of the American frontier who performed such fabulous feats as digging the Rio Grande.
- 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.
- pediculous — the state of being infested with lice.
- pentelicus — Latin name of Pendelikon.
- periculous — dangerous; perilous
- perlucidus — (of a cloud) having transparent spaces between the elements.
- pestilence — a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
- phallicism — worship of the phallus, especially as symbolic of power or of the generative principle of nature.
- philippics — any of the orations delivered by Demosthenes, the Athenian orator, in the 4th century b.c., against Philip, king of Macedon.
- phlogistic — Pathology. inflammatory.
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- phthisical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected by phthisis.
- physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
- piccoloist — a person who plays the piccolo.
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
- pismo clam — a large edible clam, Tivela stultorum, of sandy shores of California and Mexico.
- placidness — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- plasticine — Plasticine is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.