10-letter words containing c, o, a, l, p
- escapology — The study or art of escaping from a constriction, e.g. rope, handcuffs, etc.
- eucalyptol — a colourless oily liquid with a camphor-like odour and a spicy taste; it is obtained from eucalyptus oil and used in perfumery and as a flavouring. Formula: C10H18O
- euphonical — (archaic) euphonious; pleasing to the ear.
- explicator — A person or thing who explicates.
- fool's cap — a traditional jester's cap or hood, often multicolored and usually having several drooping peaks from which bells are hung.
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- geoponical — agricultural
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- halophilic — any organism, as certain halobacteria and marine bacteria, that requires a salt-rich environment for its growth and survival.
- halophytic — Growing well under salty conditions.
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- holocarpic — (of a fungus) having the entire thallus converted into fruiting bodies.
- holy place — somewhere sacred
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- hypothecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- incorporal — Obsolete form of incorporeal.
- iso pascal — A Lex scanner and Yacc parser are in the comp.sources.unix volume 13 archive.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isopycnals — Plural form of isopycnal.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kilopascal — one thousand pascals
- kleptocrat — a government official who is a thief or exploiter.
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- laparocele — (medicine) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- leucopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- local loop — (communications) The circuits between a telephone subscriber's residence or business and the switching equipment at the local central office.
- low-impact — Low-impact exercise does not put a lot of stress on your body.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- marco polo — Marco [mahr-koh] /ˈmɑr koʊ/ (Show IPA), c1254–1324, Venetian traveler.
- micropylar — Of or pertaining to micropyles.
- mycoplasma — any of numerous parasitic microorganisms of the class Mollicutes, comprising the smallest self-reproducing prokaryotes, lacking a true cell wall and able to survive without oxygen: a common cause of pneumonia and urinary tract infections.
- myopically — Very closely; as if suffering from myopia.
- napoleonic — pertaining to, resembling, or suggestive of Napoleon I, or, less often, Napoleon III, or their dynasty: the Napoleonic era; a Napoleonic attitude toward one's employees.
- narcolepsy — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- 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.
- non placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
- noncapital — (of an offense) not punishable by death.
- 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.
- nontypical — not typical; unusual
- notaphilic — of or pertaining to notaphily
- nyctalopia — night blindness.
- nyctalopic — (medicine) Unable to see clearly in low light; night-blind; suffering from nyctalopia.
- occipitals — Plural form of occipital.