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10-letter words containing e, l, p

  • life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
  • light pipe — optical fibre
  • lighten up — be less serious
  • lightplane — a lightweight passenger airplane with relatively limited performance capability.
  • lightspeed — The speed of light.
  • limitrophe — (of a country or region) on or near a frontier
  • limpidness — The property of being limpid, clarity.
  • line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.
  • linear map — (mathematics)   (Or "linear transformation") A function from a vector space to a vector space which respects the additive and multiplicative structures of the two: that is, for any two vectors, u, v, in the source vector space and any scalar, k, in the field over which it is a vector space, a linear map f satisfies f(u+kv) = f(u) + kf(v).
  • lip pencil — a make-up pencil used for outlining, shaping or colouring the lips
  • lipidaemia — Alternative form of lipidemia.
  • lipizzaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
  • lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
  • lippershey — Hans. died ?1619, Dutch lens grinder, who built the first telescope
  • lippizaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
  • lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
  • lipsticked — Decorated with lipstick.
  • list price — the price at which a product is usually sold to the public and from which a trade discount is computed by a wholesaler.
  • lithophane — a transparency made of thin porcelain or bone china having an intaglio design.
  • lithophile — (of a chemical element) concentrated in the earth's crust, rather than in the core or mantle.
  • lithophone — a Chinese stone chime consisting of 16 stone slabs hung in two rows and struck with a hammer.
  • lithophyte — Zoology. a polyp with a hard or stony structure, as a coral.
  • live it up — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
  • live up to — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
  • liver opal — a form of opal having a reddish-brown coloration
  • liver pâté — pâté made from minced liver meat
  • liver spot — a dark brown skin spot, usually caused by sun exposure
  • livescript — JavaScript
  • lockkeeper — The person assigned to look after a canal or river lock, operating it and organizing its maintenance.
  • logopedics — the study and treatment of speech defects.
  • long press — (on a tablet or smartphone) the act of pressing one's finger down on an icon or other part of the screen for several seconds, as to activate a task or access additional options.
  • long purse — wealth; riches
  • longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
  • longs peak — a peak in N Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain National Park. 14,255 feet (4345 meters).
  • loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
  • lophophore — the ring of ciliated tentacles encircling the mouth of a bryozoan or phoronid.
  • lopsidedly — In a lopsided manner.
  • lose sleep — If you say that you didn't lose any sleep over something, you mean that you did not worry about it at all.
  • loud pedal — a pedal on a piano that when depressed with the foot raises the dampers and permits the strings to vibrate and sustain the tone.
  • loup river — a river in E central Nebraska, flowing E to the Platte River. 68 miles (109 km) long.
  • love apple — a tropical, tender plant, Solanum aculeatissimum, of the nightshade family, having prickly leaves, clusters of large, star-shaped white flowers, and red, tomatolike fruit.
  • loves park — a town in N Illinois.
  • low-priced — selling at a low price; inexpensive; cheap.
  • lp spooler — (printer)   A line printer spooler.
  • lumpectomy — the surgical removal of a breast cyst or tumor.
  • lumpfishes — Plural form of lumpfish.
  • lumpsucker — A globular fish of cooler northern waters, typically having a ventral sucker and spiny fins; a lumpfish.
  • lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
  • lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
  • lymph node — any of the glandlike masses of tissue in the lymphatic vessels containing cells that become lymphocytes.
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