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10-letter words containing e, p, i, l, o

  • open field — any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.
  • open-field — any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.
  • ophicleide — a musical wind instrument, a development of the old wooden serpent, consisting of a conical metal tube bent double.
  • ophiolater — a person who worships snakes
  • oppilative — obstructive; blocking
  • oppositely — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
  • optatively — In an optative way.
  • optionable — the power or right of choosing.
  • outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
  • oversimple — excessively simple
  • oversimply — in an oversimple manner
  • paedophile — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
  • palaeolith — a stone tool dating to the Palaeolithic
  • 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
  • palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
  • palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
  • palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
  • parabolize — to form as a parabola or paraboloid.
  • paralogize — to draw conclusions that do not follow logically from a given set of assumptions.
  • pareidolia — the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features
  • parrotlike — any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
  • peanut oil — a yellow to greenish oil expressed or extracted from peanuts, used in cookery, as a vehicle for medicines, and in the manufacture of margarine and soap.
  • 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.
  • pedologist — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
  • pedophilia — sexual desire in an adult for a child.
  • pedophilic — pedophile.
  • pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
  • pencil box — a shallow covered box, usually of pasteboard, for holding pencils and crayons: used by children as an item of school equipment.
  • pendelikon — a mountain in SE Greece, near Athens: noted for its fine marble. 3640 feet (1110 meters).
  • penelopize — to act or behave like Penelope, the wife of Odysseus
  • penologist — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
  • pentaploid — having a chromosome number that is five times the haploid number.
  • pentapolis — a group or federation of five cities; esp in reference to various ancient (Biblical and Classical) federations of five cities or towns
  • pentelikon — Pendelikon.
  • peptolysis — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
  • peptolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
  • perchloric — of or derived from perchloric acid.
  • perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
  • pergelisol — permafrost.
  • periculous — dangerous; perilous
  • perigonial — of or pertaining to a perigon
  • perihelion — the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is nearest to the sun.
  • perilously — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
  • periodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
  • peritoneal — the serous membrane lining the abdominal cavity and investing its viscera.
  • persepolis — an ancient capital of Persia: its imposing ruins are in S Iran, about 30 miles (48 km) NE of Shiraz.
  • personalia — the accoutrements, concerns, or intimations that are personal to one
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