10-letter words containing l, e, p, s
- backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.
- bailieship — the office or district of a bailie
- bakeapples — Plural form of bakeapple.
- bargepoles — Plural form of bargepole.
- barnstaple — a town in SW England, in Devon, on the estuary of the River Taw: tourism, agriculture. Pop: 30 765 (2001)
- baseplates — Plural form of baseplate.
- basophiles — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- battleship — A battleship is a very large, heavily armed warship.
- bel esprit — a witty or clever person
- bel-esprit — a person of great wit or intellect.
- bell sheep — a sheep that a shearer is just starting to shear (and which he is allowed to finish) as the bell rings for the end of a work period
- bellperson — a bellhop.
- bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
- bespeckled — to speckle.
- besprinkle — to sprinkle all over with liquid, powder, etc
- billposter — a person who is employed to stick advertising posters to walls, fences, etc
- bipedalism — the condition or state of having two feet
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bisulphide — a disulfide.
- bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
- blade slap — the regular noise beat generated by the rotor blades of a helicopter
- blasphemer — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemes — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- bucephalus — the favourite horse of Alexander the Great
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- caliphates — Plural form of caliphate.
- camel spin — camel (def 3).
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- cap sleeve — a very short sleeve on a woman's dress, blouse, etc., fashioned by lengthening only the outer shoulder area of the garment to form a caplike extension
- cape flats — the strip of low-lying land in South Africa joining the Cape Peninsula proper to the African mainland
- capitalise — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- capsizable — able to be capsized
- capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.
- capsulised — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulise.
- capsulized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsulize.
- capsulizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capsulize.
- carpetless — Not carpeted.
- catalepsis — Dated form of catalepsy.
- cattleship — a large vessel for the transportation of livestock.
- celioscope — celoscope.
- celioscopy — celoscope.
- cephalitis — encephalitis.
- cheapishly — in a fairly cheap manner