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.