10-letter words containing e, l, p
- land power — a nation having an important and powerful army.
- landlouper — A vagabond; a vagrant.
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- landscapes — Plural form of landscape.
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- laparocele — (medicine) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
- laparotome — a cutting instrument for performing a laparotomy.
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- lapidified — Simple past tense and past participle of lapidify.
- lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
- lapse rate — the rate of decrease of atmospheric temperature with increase of elevation vertically above a given location.
- lapstrakes — Plural form of lapstrake.
- laptev sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean N of the Russian Federation in Asia, between Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands.
- laser trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- last sleep — death
- lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- lay-people — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- lead paint — paint containing lead
- lead up to — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leadplants — Plural form of leadplant.
- leafhopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leaky heap — memory leak
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- leech rope — a boltrope along a leech.
- leg-puller — an amusing hoax, practical joke, or the like: The entire story was a hilarious leg-pull.
- legateship — The office or authority of a legate.
- lemon drop — a lemon-flavored lozenge.
- lenin peak — a peak in the Trans Alai range, in central Asia, between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. 23,382 feet (7127 meters).
- leopardess — a female leopard.
- leopold ii — 1747–92, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1790–92 (son of Francis I; brother of Joseph II and Marie Antoinette).
- lepidolite — a mineral of the mica group, potassium lithium aluminum silicate, commonly occurring in lilac, rose-colored, or whitish scaly masses: an ore of lithium.
- leprechaun — a dwarf or sprite.
- leptosomic — a person of asthenic build.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- leptospire — Any bacterium of the genus Leptospira.
- lespedezas — Plural form of lespedeza.
- lesser ape — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- let it rip — If you let it rip, you do something forcefully and without trying to control yourself.
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- leucopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- leukopathy — (pathology) depigmentation of the skin.
- leukopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leukopenic — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
- lexiphanes — Plural form of lexiphane.
- life plant — air plant (def 2).