10-letter words containing l, e, p, t
- net.police — /net-p*-lees'/ (Or "net police", "net.cops") Those Usenet readers who feel it is their responsibility to pounce on and flame any posting which they regard as offensive or in violation of their understanding of netiquette. Generally used sarcastically or pejoratively. See also net.-, code police.
- neutrophil — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- newel post — a post supporting one end of a handrail at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs.
- nickeltype — an electrotype with a deposit of nickel.
- nilpotence — The quality of being nilpotent.
- nilpotency — The quality of being nilpotent.
- nipplewort — a yellow-flowered plant, Lapsana communis, found in woods and on wasteland.
- non placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
- nonpotable — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- north pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- nyctophile — (zoology) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.
- nympholept — a person seized with nympholepsy.
- oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
- on a plate — in such a way as to be acquired without further trouble
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- operatable — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
- operculate — having an operculum.
- 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.
- osteoplast — An osteoblast.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
- paddleboat — a boat propelled by a paddle wheel.
- page fault — (memory management) In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal.
- palaeolith — a stone tool dating to the Palaeolithic
- palaeotype — a system of Roman letters and symbols that represent spoken sounds
- palaestral — relating to the palaestra
- palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
- palatalize — to articulate (a consonant other than a normal palatal) as a palatal or with relatively more contact between the blade of the tongue and the hard palate, as in certain pronunciations of the l- sound in million.
- palatinate — the. either of two historic regions of Germany that constituted an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire: one (Lower Palatinate, or Rhine Palatinate, ) is now part of Rhineland-Palatinate and the other (Upper Palatinate, ) is now part of Bavaria.
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- pallescent — becoming paler in colour with increasing age
- palletized — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- palletizer — a machine that packs, dismantles, or secures pallets
- palliament — a long robe
- palliative — serving to palliate.
- 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.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- palpebrate — having eyelids.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- 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.