10-letter words containing e, p, i, l, o
- importable — to bring in (merchandise, commodities, workers, etc.) from a foreign country for use, sale, processing, reexport, or services.
- impossible — not possible; unable to be, exist, happen, etc.
- impotently — not potent; lacking power or ability.
- improbable — not probable; unlikely to be true or to happen: Rain is improbable tonight.
- improperly — not proper; not strictly belonging, applicable, correct, etc.; erroneous: He drew improper conclusions from the scant evidence.
- improvable — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- inceptisol — a soil so young that horizons have just begun to form: especially prevalent in tundra areas.
- incomplete — not complete; lacking some part.
- indophenol — a quinonimine derivative that is the parent substance of the blue and green indophenol dyes.
- inoperable — not operable or practicable.
- inpossible — Obsolete spelling of impossible.
- interloped — Simple past tense and past participle of interlope.
- interloper — a person who interferes or meddles in the affairs of others: He was an athiest who felt like an interloper in this religious gathering.
- interlopes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlope.
- interpolar — connecting or being between poles: an interpolar flight.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isoplethic — Relating to isopleths.
- italophile — a person who admires Italian customs, traditions, etc.
- joe public — also Joe Bloggs; US = John Q. Public
- kiloampère — one thousand amperes
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- laloplegia — paralysis of the speech organs in which the tongue is not affected.
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- 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.
- 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.
- leucopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- 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.
- limitrophe — (of a country or region) on or near a frontier
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- 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 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 spot — a dark brown skin spot, usually caused by sun exposure
- logopedics — the study and treatment of speech defects.
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- lopsidedly — In a lopsided manner.
- loup river — a river in E central Nebraska, flowing E to the Platte River. 68 miles (109 km) long.
- low-priced — selling at a low price; inexpensive; cheap.
- lymphokine — any lymphocyte product, as interferon, that is not an antibody but may participate in the immune response through its effect on the function of other cells, as destroying antigen-coated cells or stimulating macrophages.
- lyophilise — Alternative spelling of lyophilize.