10-letter words containing l, p, a
- party plan — of or relating to a method of selling products such as jewellery, clothes, or kitchen items: agents hold a party at which they display and sell the goods
- party wall — a wall used, or usable, as a part of contiguous structures.
- pascagoula — a city in SE Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico.
- paschal ii — (Ranieri) died 1118, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1099–1118.
- paso doble — a quick, light march often played at bullfights.
- pasquilant — the writer of a pasquinade
- passiflora — a plant of the genus Passiflora
- paste mold — a mold lined with a moist carbonized paste, for shaping glass as it is blown.
- pastorally — having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.
- pasturable — capable of providing pasture, as land.
- patent law — the law relating to patents
- patent log — any of various devices for determining the speed of a ship by means of a vaned rotor streamed at the end of a log line upon which it exerts a torsion transmitted to a registering device on board.
- patentable — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- paternally — characteristic of or befitting a father; fatherly: a kind and paternal reprimand.
- pathet lao — the Communist nationalist group that took over the government of Laos in 1975 after two decades of civil war.
- pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pathologic — of or relating to pathology.
- patibulary — of or relating to a gallows or an execution
- patrialise — to make patrial, one with a legal right to enter and stay in the UK
- patrialism — (in Britain formerly) the policy regarding conferment of patrial status
- patriality — (in Britain formerly) the right to patrial status
- patrialize — to give a legal right to enter and stay in a country
- patricidal — the act of killing one's own father.
- patricliny — patrocliny.
- patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
- patrilocal — virilocal.
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patrol car — squad car.
- patrolling — (of a police officer, soldier, etc.) to pass along a road, beat, etc., or around or through a specified area in order to maintain order and security.
- patronless — having no patron(s), without patrons
- paul flory — Paul John, 1910–85, U.S. chemist: pioneer in research on polymers; Nobel Prize 1974.
- paul jones — an old-time dance in which partners are exchanged
- pausefully — in a pauseful manner
- pay a call — visit
- payability — to be paid; due: a loan payable in 30 days.
- pdsa cycle — Plan, Do, See, Approve (from Japan).
- pea weevil — a seed beetle, Bruchus pisorum, the larvae of which live in and feed on the seeds of the pea plant.
- peacefully — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peach palm — a palm, Bactris gasipaes, having very spiny, tall stems, widely cultivated in the New World tropics for its edible fruit and palm hearts.
- peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
- peanut oil — a yellow to greenish oil expressed or extracted from peanuts, used in cookery, as a vehicle for medicines, and in the manufacture of margarine and soap.
- pearl blue — a light bluish gray.
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- pearl gray — a very pale bluish gray.
- pearl grey — a light bluish-grey colour
- pearlstein — Philip, born 1924, U.S. painter.
- peary land — a peninsula in N Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean: Cape Morris Jesup is at its N end. 200 miles (320 km) long.
- pebbledash — to cover with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- peccadillo — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.