10-letter words containing g, s, p, l
- legateship — The office or authority of a legate.
- lightships — Plural form of lightship.
- lightspeed — The speed of light.
- logansport — a city in N Indiana, on the Wabash River.
- logographs — Plural form of logograph.
- logogriphs — Plural form of logogriph.
- 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
- longs peak — a peak in N Colorado, in the Rocky Mountain National Park. 14,255 feet (4345 meters).
- lump sugar — sugar in small blocks
- megalopsia — macropsia.
- megapixels — Plural form of megapixel.
- megaplexes — Plural form of megaplex.
- mispelling — Misspelling of misspelling.
- misplacing — Present participle of misplace.
- mpeg-2 lsf — MPEG-2 Low Sampling Frequencies Extention
- nonplusing — Present participle of nonplus.
- oleographs — Plural form of oleograph.
- oligopsony — the market condition that exists when there are few buyers, as a result of which they can greatly influence price and other market factors.
- opal glass — a translucent or opaque glass, usually of a milky white hue.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- opposingly — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- optologist — a person who tests eyes for lenses
- palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
- paraglossa — the outer lobe of the lingua or labium of certain insects
- paralogism — argument violating principles of valid reasoning.
- pascagoula — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- pedologist — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pelagius i — died a.d. 561, pope 556–561.
- pellagrous — a disease caused by a deficiency of niacin in the diet, characterized by skin changes, severe nerve dysfunction, mental symptoms, and diarrhea.
- penologist — the study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects.
- pergelisol — permafrost.
- persiflage — light, bantering talk or writing.
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- phlegmasia — a condition characterized by swelling, pain, and redness
- phlogistic — Pathology. inflammatory.
- phlogiston — a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.
- physiology — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
- pier glass — a tall mirror, often full-length, intended to be set between windows.
- pig island — New Zealand
- plagiarise — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plagiarism — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- plagiarist — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
- plain-song — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- plasmagene — a self-replicating genetic particle postulated to be in the cytoplasm of a cell, as in mitochondria.
- plasmogamy — the fusion of the protoplasts of cells.
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- plastogamy — the fusion of multiple cells without the fusion of their nuclei