10-letter words containing c, o, p, l
- occipitals — Plural form of occipital.
- occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- octaploidy — the fact of having or containing eight groups or sets of chromosomes
- octoploids — Plural form of octoploid.
- 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.
- ophiolitic — composed of, or relating to ophiolite
- ophthalmic — of or relating to the eye; ocular.
- 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
- pali canon — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
- 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.
- panic bolt — a bar that spans an emergency exit door on its interior and opens the latch when pressure is applied.
- parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parlor car — a railroad passenger car that has individual reserved seats and is more comfortable than a day coach.
- parsonical — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- pascagoula — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- pathologic — of or relating to pathology.
- patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
- patrilocal — virilocal.
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patrol car — squad car.
- pdc prolog — Prolog Development Centre Prolog. A Prolog evolved from Turbo Prolog by the original authors.
- 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