10-letter words containing l, p, a
- palliament — a long robe
- palliation — to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
- palliative — serving to palliate.
- palm beach — a town in SE Florida: seaside winter resort.
- palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
- palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
- palm grove — small forest of palm trees
- palm sugar — sugar from the sap of certain palm trees.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmatifid — displaying palmate characteristics
- palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- palmerworm — the larva of a tineid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, of the eastern U.S., that feeds on the leaves of apple and other fruit trees.
- palo santo — a South American tree, Bulnesia sarmienti, of the caltrop family, yielding a fragrant essential oil.
- palpebrate — having eyelids.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- palynology — the study of live and fossil spores, pollen grains, and similar plant structures.
- panel game — a game in which the teams consists of two or more opposing panels or groups of people who discuss or decide on the answers, etc together
- panelboard — a compact pressboard for use in constructing sides of cabinets, paneling for walls, and in other nonstructural applications.
- panellized — made in sections for quick assembly
- panhandler — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- panic bolt — a bar that spans an emergency exit door on its interior and opens the latch when pressure is applied.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- pannicular — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- panniculus — a layer of tissue, especially a subcutaneous layer of fat.
- panslavism — the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.
- pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantalones — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
- pantaloons — pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
- papal bull — bull2 (def 2).
- paper clip — small clasp that holds papers together
- paper doll — a paper or cardboard, usually two-dimensional, representation of the human figure, used as a child's toy.
- paper gold — special drawing rights.
- paper loss — an investment loss which has occurred but not yet been realized
- paper mill — factory where paper is made
- paper-clip — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
- papillated — having papillae
- papillitis — the inflammation of a papilla
- papistical — of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
- papulation — the formation or development of papules
- papyrology — the study of papyrus manuscripts.
- parablepsy — a hallucination
- parabolize — to form as a parabola or paraboloid.
- paraboloid — a surface that can be put into a position such that its sections parallel to at least one coordinate plane are parabolas.
- paracelsus — Philippus Aureolus [fi-lip-uh s aw-ree-oh-luh s] /fɪˈlɪp əs ɔˈri oʊ ləs/ (Show IPA), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) 1493?–1541, Swiss physician and alchemist.
- paradiddle — an exercise or sequence performed typically on the snare drum, marked by four basic beats with alternation of the right hand and left hand on successive strong beats, and begun and ended slowly with a dramatic increase in tempo in the middle.
- paraglider — Also called parawing. a steerable glider with inflatable wings proposed for use as an emergency vehicle for travel between a space station and the earth or for the recovery of rocket boosters.
- paraglossa — the outer lobe of the lingua or labium of certain insects
- paralation — PARALlel reLATION. Sabot, MIT 1987. A framework for parallel programming. A "field" is an array of objects, placed at different sites. A paralation is a group of fields, defining nearness between field elements. Operations can be performed in parallel on every site of a paralation.
- paralepsis — paralipsis.