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

  • pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
  • pilot cell — one cell in a battery selected and tested to determine the charge or discharge current for the entire battery.
  • pin clover — alfilaria.
  • pl cornell — Programming Language/Cornell
  • pleochroic — (of a biaxial crystal) characterized by pleochroism.
  • pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
  • pleonectic — characterized by pleonexia
  • pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
  • 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.
  • pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
  • poetically — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
  • point lace — lace made with a needle rather than with bobbins; needlepoint.
  • pole piece — a piece of magnetic material at a pole of a permanent magnet or of an electromagnet, shaped to control the magnetic flux distribution in the vicinity of the pole.
  • polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
  • polemicize — to practice the art of disputation; to engage in polemics or controversy.
  • police car — squad car.
  • police dog — a dog trained to assist the police.
  • politicize — to bring a political character or flavor to; make political: to politicize a private dispute.
  • pollen sac — one of the cavities in an anther in which pollen is produced.
  • polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
  • polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
  • polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
  • polychrome — being of many or various colors.
  • polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
  • polydeuces — Greek name of Pollux.
  • polyethnic — inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.
  • polyhedric — resembling a polyhedron
  • pomace fly — vinegar fly.
  • ponchielli — Amilcare [ah-meel-kah-re] /ɑˈmil kɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1834–86, Italian composer.
  • ponticello — a bridge on a stringed instrument
  • 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.
  • 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-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.
  • precollege — occurring or carried out before entry to college, esp as a means of preparation for college entry
  • precooling — Precooling is a process which improves the performance of a unit by reducing the compressor load and the head pressure.
  • prelection — to lecture or discourse publicly.
  • prelogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
  • prepyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
  • prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
  • procedural — procedural language
  • procellous — stormy, as the sea.
  • processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
  • proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
  • procoelous — describing vertebrae with a concave cranial surface
  • proctodeal — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
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