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10-letter words containing l, p, a

  • launch pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • lawn party — garden party.
  • lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
  • lay-people — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
  • lead paint — paint containing lead
  • lead up to — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
  • leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
  • leadplants — Plural form of leadplant.
  • leafhopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
  • leaky heap — memory leak
  • legateship — The office or authority of a legate.
  • lenin peak — a peak in the Trans Alai range, in central Asia, between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. 23,382 feet (7127 meters).
  • leopardess — a female leopard.
  • leprechaun — a dwarf or sprite.
  • leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
  • lespedezas — Plural form of lespedeza.
  • lesser ape — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
  • leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
  • leucopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
  • leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
  • leukopathy — (pathology) depigmentation of the skin.
  • leukopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
  • lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
  • lexiphanes — Plural form of lexiphane.
  • lhasa apso — one of a breed of small terriers having a long, heavy coat, raised in Tibet as watchdogs.
  • li t'ai-po — Li Po
  • life plant — air plant (def 2).
  • life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
  • light trap — any mechanical arrangement that allows some form of movement to take place while excluding light, such as a light-proof door or the lips of a film cassette
  • lightplane — a lightweight passenger airplane with relatively limited performance capability.
  • line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.
  • linear map — (mathematics)   (Or "linear transformation") A function from a vector space to a vector space which respects the additive and multiplicative structures of the two: that is, for any two vectors, u, v, in the source vector space and any scalar, k, in the field over which it is a vector space, a linear map f satisfies f(u+kv) = f(u) + kf(v).
  • lipidaemia — Alternative form of lipidemia.
  • lipizzaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
  • lipography — unintentional omission in writing, as of a specific letter or syllable.
  • lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
  • lippizaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
  • lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
  • lisp-linda — P. Dourish, U Edinburgh 1988.
  • lithograph — a print produced by lithography.
  • lithophane — a transparency made of thin porcelain or bone china having an intaglio design.
  • lithophysa — a cavity or hollow found in volcanic rocks, caused by expanding gas
  • liver opal — a form of opal having a reddish-brown coloration
  • liver pâté — pâté made from minced liver meat
  • local loop — (communications)   The circuits between a telephone subscriber's residence or business and the switching equipment at the local central office.
  • logansport — a city in N Indiana, on the Wabash River.
  • logographs — Plural form of logograph.
  • logography — printing with logotypes.
  • logophilia — The love of words and word games.
  • logophobia — an obsessive fear of words.
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