10-letter words containing l, e, p, t
- wall plate — Also called raising plate. Building Trades. a horizontal member built into or laid along the top of a wall to support and distribute the pressure from joists, rafters, etc.
- wallposter — (in China) a usually lengthy notice, complaint, personal opinion, etc., handwritten in large characters and hung on walls in cities, as a means of communication and for criticizing or attacking government policy or politicians.
- water pill — a diuretic pill.
- water plug — a fireplug; hydrant.
- water polo — an aquatic game played by two teams of seven swimmers each, the object being to score goals by pushing, carrying, or passing an inflated ball and tossing it into the opponent's goal, defended by a goalkeeper.
- well-spent — simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- wentletrap — any of several marine gastropods of the family Epitonii (Scalariidae), having a whitish, spiraled shell.
- west islip — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- wheat pool — (in Western Canada) a cereal farmers' cooperative
- whiptailed — having a long slender tail
- whistle up — to call or summon (a person or animal) by whistling
- whole step — an interval of two semitones, as A-B or B-C♯; a major second.
- z particle — one of three particles, called intermediate vector bosons, that are believed to transmit the weak force. Symbol: Z 0.
- zone plate — a plate or screen with alternating opaque and transparent concentric rings that focus light by diffraction.