10-letter words containing l, a, p, e
- palliative — serving to palliate.
- palm beach — a town in SE Florida: seaside winter resort.
- palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
- palm grove — small forest of palm trees
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- palmerworm — the larva of a tineid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, of the eastern U.S., that feeds on the leaves of apple and other fruit trees.
- palpebrate — having eyelids.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panel game — a game in which the teams consists of two or more opposing panels or groups of people who discuss or decide on the answers, etc together
- panelboard — a compact pressboard for use in constructing sides of cabinets, paneling for walls, and in other nonstructural applications.
- panellized — made in sections for quick assembly
- panhandler — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantalones — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
- paper clip — small clasp that holds papers together
- paper doll — a paper or cardboard, usually two-dimensional, representation of the human figure, used as a child's toy.
- paper gold — special drawing rights.
- paper loss — an investment loss which has occurred but not yet been realized
- paper mill — factory where paper is made
- paper-clip — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
- papillated — having papillae
- parablepsy — a hallucination
- parabolize — to form as a parabola or paraboloid.
- paracelsus — Philippus Aureolus [fi-lip-uh s aw-ree-oh-luh s] /fɪˈlɪp əs ɔˈri oʊ ləs/ (Show IPA), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) 1493?–1541, Swiss physician and alchemist.
- paradiddle — an exercise or sequence performed typically on the snare drum, marked by four basic beats with alternation of the right hand and left hand on successive strong beats, and begun and ended slowly with a dramatic increase in tempo in the middle.
- paraglider — Also called parawing. a steerable glider with inflatable wings proposed for use as an emergency vehicle for travel between a space station and the earth or for the recovery of rocket boosters.
- paralepsis — paralipsis.
- parallel c — 1. (language, parallel) Never implemented, but influenced the design of C*. [Details?] 2. C for the transputer by 3L. 3. (PC) Extensions to C developed at the University of Houston providing a shared memory SIMD model on message passing computers. E-mail: Ridgway Scott <[email protected]>.
- paralleled — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- parallelly — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- paralogize — to draw conclusions that do not follow logically from a given set of assumptions.
- parapineal — situated beside the pineal gland
- paraplegia — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- paraselene — a bright moonlike spot on a lunar halo; a mock moon.
- parasexual — of or relating to any form of reproduction in which the recombination of genes occurs by a process other than the fusion of gametes
- parawalker — a metal structure fitted over the body to enable a disabled person to walk
- parcel net — a large bag made of netting attached inside (the boot or trunk of) a car and used to store loose items, such as groceries, sports equipment, or parcels, etc
- parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- pardonable — kind indulgence, as in forgiveness of an offense or discourtesy or in tolerance of a distraction or inconvenience: I beg your pardon, but which way is Spruce Street?
- pareidolia — the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features
- parentally — of or relating to a parent.
- parenteral — taken into the body in a manner other than through the digestive canal.
- parentless — a father or a mother.
- parentlike — a father or a mother.
- parimutuel — a system of betting on races in which those backing the winners divide, in proportion to their wagers, the total amount bet, minus a percentage for the track operators, taxes, etc.