10-letter words containing l, p, a
- osteoplast — An osteoblast.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- overlapped — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overplaced — placed above
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
- pack drill — a military punishment by which the offender is made to march about carrying a full pack of equipment
- pack trail — a path or route suitable for pack animals
- packsaddle — a saddle specifically designed for holding or supporting the load on a pack animal.
- paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
- paddle box — a structure enclosing a paddle wheel.
- paddleball — a game played on a handball court following the same basic rules as handball, but in which players use short-handled, perforated paddles to hit a ball resembling a tennis ball.
- paddleboat — a boat propelled by a paddle wheel.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- paddy last — the last person in a race or competition
- paddymelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- paedophile — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- 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.
- painkiller — a drug, treatment, or anything else that relieves pain, especially an analgesic.
- pair royal — Cribbage. a set of three cards of the same denomination, worth six points.
- palaeocene — of, denoting, or formed in the first epoch of the Tertiary period, which lasted for 10 million years
- palaeogaea — the Old World as a biological region
- palaeogene — of or formed in the Palaeocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs
- palaeolith — a stone tool dating to the Palaeolithic
- palaeology — the study of prehistory
- palaeotype — a system of Roman letters and symbols that represent spoken sounds
- palaeozoic — of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period
- 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.
- palatogram — Phonetics. a diagram or photograph obtained through palatography.
- palavering — a conference or discussion.
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- pale-faced — having a pale face
- 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.
- palfrenier — a person whose duty is to tend to horses
- pali canon — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- palinopsia — a visual disorder in which the patient perceives a prolonged afterimage
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- pallbearer — one of several persons who carry or attend the coffin at a funeral.
- 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