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11-letter words containing e, l, o, p

  • appointable — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
  • archipelago — An archipelago is a group of islands, especially small islands.
  • armor plate — a protective covering of specially hardened steel plates, as on a tank
  • arolla pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra, found esp in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
  • atelophobia — The fear of imperfection or not being good enough.
  • atomic pile — nuclear reactor
  • audiophiles — Plural form of audiophile.
  • autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
  • axerophthol — any form of vitamin A
  • barber pole — a pole with spiral stripes of red and white, used as a symbol of the barber's trade
  • bell-topper — a tall silk hat
  • bellerophon — a hero of Corinth who performed many deeds with the help of the winged horse Pegasus, notably the killing of the monster Chimera
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • biblioklept — a person who steals books.
  • bibliopegic — relating to bookbinding as a fine art
  • bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
  • bibliophile — a person who collects or is fond of books
  • bibliophobe — a person who hates, fears, or distrusts books.
  • bicephalous — having two heads
  • black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
  • blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
  • blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
  • block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
  • blogosphere — In computer technology, the blogosphere or the blogsphere is all the weblogs on the Internet, considered collectively.
  • blood purge — the mass execution, especially by a government, of persons considered guilty of treason or sedition.
  • bloodsprent — spattered or stained with blood
  • boat people — Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.
  • boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
  • bontempelli — Massimo. 1878–1960, Italian dramatist, poet, novelist, and critic. His works include the play Nostra Dea (1925) and the novel The Faithful Lover (1953)
  • bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
  • broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
  • broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
  • bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bumper pool — a pool game played on a small, often octagonally shaped table with two pockets, having strategically placed cushioned pegs on the playing surface, usually necessitating bank shots to sink balls.
  • bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
  • bush parole — an escape from prison.
  • calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
  • camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
  • camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
  • campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
  • campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
  • cape collar — a soft, wide, circular collar that covers the shoulders and the upper arms like a cape.
  • cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
  • cape-glossaCape, a promontory in SW Albania.
  • captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
  • cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
  • carpet plot — the graphed values of a function of more than one variable, read from an ordinate at points located by the intersection of curves of constant values of each of the variables
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