10-letter words containing l, a, p, e
- philatelic — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- philoxenia — an act of hospitableness and welcome
- phlebogram — venogram.
- phlegmasia — a condition characterized by swelling, pain, and redness
- phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
- phloem ray — a vascular ray extending into or located entirely within the secondary phloem.
- phocomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- phokomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- phone call — telephone call
- phone mail — voice mail
- phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phraseless — lacking in a phrase or phrases
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- phylloxera — any of several plant lice of the genus Phylloxera, especially P. vitifoliae (grape phylloxera) which attacks the leaves and roots of grapevines.
- picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- pier glass — a tall mirror, often full-length, intended to be set between windows.
- pier table — a low table or console intended to be set between two windows, often beneath a pier glass.
- pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
- pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
- pileolated — pileated.
- pileorhiza — a calyptra
- pilferable — capable of being pilfered
- pilgrimage — a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: a pilgrimage to Lourdes.
- pillarless — having no pillars or upright structural supports
- pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
- pilot tape — Television. pilot (def 9).
- pin-tailed — having a tapered tail with long, pointed central feathers.
- pineal eye — an eyelike structure that develops from the pineal apparatus in certain cold-blooded vertebrates.
- pipe-layer — a worker employed in laying a pipeline or one experienced in such work.
- pirandello — Luigi [loo-ee-jee] /luˈi dʒi/ (Show IPA), 1867–1936, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet: Nobel prize 1934.
- pistillate — having a pistil or pistils.
- pit sample — a sample of new steel taken for chemical analysis during teeming.
- pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
- pixelating — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixelation — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pixellated — in computer graphics and digital photography, to cause (an image) to break up into pixels, as by overenlarging the image: When enlarging a photograph, first increase the resolution to avoid pixelating it.
- pizza-like — similar to or resembling pizza
- place card — a small card with the name of a guest on it, placed on the table, to indicate where he or she is to sit.
- place kick — a kick in which the ball is placed in position before it is kicked
- place name — the name given to or held by a geographical location, as a town, city, village, etc.
- place-kick — to make (a field goal or point after touchdown) by a place kick.
- placentate — having a placenta.
- placidness — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- plagiarise — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plagiarize — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
- plain jane — girl: unattractive
- plain text — the intelligible original message of a cryptogram, as opposed to the coded or enciphered version.
- plain-jane — simple and modest; unadorned; basic: a plain-Jane car dressed up with leather upholstery.