10-letter words containing c, o, p, l
- 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.
- prochloron — any spherical, photosynthetic, prokaryotic microorganism of the genus Prochloron, occurring in subtropical and tropical habitats in symbiosis with various invertebrates, especially marine chordates, proposed as ancestral to the chloroplast of green algae and plants.
- proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- procoelous — describing vertebrae with a concave cranial surface
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- proctodeal — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
- proctology — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- procurable — obtainable.
- producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- profluence — abundance
- projectile — an object fired from a gun with an explosive propelling charge, such as a bullet, shell, rocket, or grenade.
- prolicidal — characteristic of prolicide
- prolocutor — a presiding officer of an assembly; chairperson.
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
- protocolar — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
- protocolic — relating to protocol
- provencale — (sometimes lowercase) cooked, usually in olive oil, with garlic, tomatoes, onions, and herbs.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- pseudocoel — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
- psilocybin — a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, C 1 2 H 1 7 N 2 O 4 P, obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
- pulpectomy — the removal of all the pulp tissue in a tooth in the course of endodontic therapy.
- pultaceous — resembling pap
- punch bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- punch-bowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- pycnocline — a layer, zone, or gradient of changing density, esp. a thin layer of ocean water with a density that increases rapidly with depth
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
- pyrochlore — a mineral, chiefly composed of niobates of the cerium metals, occurring in syenites in the form of brown crystals.
- reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- recoupable — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- riflescope — a telescopic sight mounted on top of a rifle that helps to improve one's aim by magnifying and pinpointing a target.
- roach clip — a small tweezerlike clip for holding the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
- rock maple — the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
- rock plant — a plant found among rocks or in rock gardens.
- rupicolous — rupestrine.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.