10-letter words containing l, p, a
- king plank — a plank running along the center line of a deck, into which all other planks are fitted.
- kleptocrat — a government official who is a thief or exploiter.
- l'hospital — Guillaume François Antoine de [gee-yohm frahn-swa ahn-twan duh] /giˈyoʊm frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1661–1704, French mathematician.
- la perouse — Jean François de Galaup [zhahn frahn-swa duh ga-loh] /ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa də gaˈloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1741–88, French naval officer and explorer.
- labor camp — Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- lady apple — a small, yellow apple with a red blush, grown as a specialty variety, and used for eating and in commercial canning.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- lagered-up — intoxicated, esp after drinking lager
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- lagniappes — Plural form of lagniappe.
- lagomorphs — Plural form of lagomorph.
- laid paper — paper with fine parallel and cross lines produced in manufacturing.
- lake poets — the English poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who lived in and drew inspiration from the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th century
- lake poopó — a lake in SW Bolivia, at an altitude of 3688 m (12 100 ft): fed by the Desaguadero River. Area: 2540 sq km (980 sq miles)
- lake pskov — the S part of Lake Peipus in NW Russia, linked to the main part by a channel 24 km (15 miles) long. Area: about 1000 sq km (400 sq miles)
- lake taupo — a lake in New Zealand, on central North Island: the largest lake of New Zealand. Area: 616 sq km (238 sq miles)
- laloplegia — paralysis of the speech organs in which the tongue is not affected.
- lamp shell — a mollusklike marine animal; brachiopod.
- lamp-black — a fine black pigment consisting of almost pure carbon collected as soot from the smoke of burning oil, gas, etc.
- lamp-shade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampadaire — a pedestal of the Empire period for a lamp or candelabrum.
- lamper eel — lamprey.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampooning — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- lampshades — Plural form of lampshade.
- land power — a nation having an important and powerful army.
- landlouper — A vagabond; a vagrant.
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- landscapes — Plural form of landscape.
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- laparocele — (medicine) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
- laparotome — a cutting instrument for performing a laparotomy.
- laparotomy — incision through the abdominal wall.
- lapidarian — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- lapidarist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidation — to pelt with stones.
- lapidified — Simple past tense and past participle of lapidify.
- lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
- lapse rate — the rate of decrease of atmospheric temperature with increase of elevation vertically above a given location.
- lapstrakes — Plural form of lapstrake.
- laptev sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean N of the Russian Federation in Asia, between Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands.
- las palmas — Las. Las Palmas.
- laser trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- last sleep — death