10-letter words containing c, o, l, e, p
- 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.
- net.police — /net-p*-lees'/ (Or "net police", "net.cops") Those Usenet readers who feel it is their responsibility to pounce on and flame any posting which they regard as offensive or in violation of their understanding of netiquette. Generally used sarcastically or pejoratively. See also net.-, code police.
- nilpotence — The quality of being nilpotent.
- nilpotency — The quality of being nilpotent.
- non placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
- noncomplex — not complex or complicated; simple
- nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- nyctophile — (zoology) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
- occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- oenophilic — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- 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.
- oleophilic — of or relating to a substance that has an affinity for oils and not for water. Compare hydrophobic (def 2).
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- operculate — having an operculum.
- ophicleide — a musical wind instrument, a development of the old wooden serpent, consisting of a conical metal tube bent double.
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- overplaced — placed above
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
- palaeocene — of, denoting, or formed in the first epoch of the Tertiary period, which lasted for 10 million years
- palaeozoic — of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
- peccadillo — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- 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.
- pedophilic — pedophile.
- pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- penal code — the aggregate of statutory enactments dealing with crimes and their punishment.
- pencil box — a shallow covered box, usually of pasteboard, for holding pencils and crayons: used by children as an item of school equipment.
- peptolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- perchloric — of or derived from perchloric acid.
- percolator — a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up a hollow stem, filters down through ground coffee in a sievelike container, and returns to the pot below.
- periculous — dangerous; perilous
- periodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- petrol can — a container for carrying petrol
- petrol cap — a small cover that goes over the hole in a vehicle into which you put petrol
- phlegmonic — relating to or having the characteristics of a phlegmon
- phocomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- phone call — telephone call
- phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- 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.
- phylogenic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.