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10-letter words containing c, l, o, s, e

  • periculous — dangerous; perilous
  • photocells — a solid-state device that converts light into electrical energy by producing a voltage, as in a photovoltaic cell, or uses light to regulate the flow of current, as in a photoconductive cell: used in automatic control systems for doors, lighting, etc.
  • pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
  • pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
  • pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
  • pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
  • polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
  • pollen sac — one of the cavities in an anther in which pollen is produced.
  • polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
  • polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
  • polydeuces — Greek name of Pollux.
  • postexilic — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
  • pre-school — Pre-school is used to describe things relating to the care and education of children before they reach the age when they have to go to school.
  • preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • preclosure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
  • preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
  • procellous — stormy, as the sea.
  • processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
  • procoelous — describing vertebrae with a concave cranial surface
  • pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
  • pseudocoel — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
  • pultaceous — resembling pap
  • pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
  • radiculose — having small roots or rhizoids
  • reclosable — capable of being closed again easily or tightly after opening: a reclosable box of crackers.
  • recoilless — having little or no recoil: a recoilless rifle.
  • reconciles — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
  • resorcinol — a white, needlelike, water-soluble solid, C 6 H 6 O 2 , a benzene derivative originally obtained from certain resins, now usually synthesized: used chiefly in making dyes, as a reagent, in tanning, in the synthesis of certain resins, and in medicine in treating certain skin conditions; meta-dihydroxybenzene.
  • riflescope — a telescopic sight mounted on top of a rifle that helps to improve one's aim by magnifying and pinpointing a target.
  • roscoelite — a brown variety of muscovite in which some aluminum is replaced by vanadium.
  • sacerdotal — of priests; priestly.
  • sarcolemma — the membranous sheath of a muscle fiber.
  • sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
  • saxicoline — living or growing among rocks.
  • scaffolded — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
  • scale down — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
  • scale moss — any thalloid liverwort.
  • scaleboard — a very thin board, as for the back of a picture.
  • scaloppine — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
  • school age — the age set by law for children to start school attendance.
  • school tie — old school tie.
  • schoolmate — a companion or associate at school.
  • schooltide — schooldays
  • schooltime — the period during which schools are open
  • scleroderm — a fish of the sclerodermi tribe
  • sclerotial — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
  • sclerotium — a vegetative, resting food-storage body in certain higher fungi, composed of a compact mass of hardened mycelia.
  • sclerotize — to harden and darken (an insect's cuticle)
  • sclerotome — Embryology. the part of a mesodermal somite contributing to the development of the vertebrae and ribs.
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