10-letter words containing l, p, a
- compliable — compliant
- compliance — a disposition to yield to or comply with others
- compliancy — compliance (defs 1, 2, 4).
- complicacy — the condition or quality of being complicated
- complicant — (of the elytra of a beetle) overlapping
- complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
- composable — to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements: He composed his speech from many research notes.
- computable — computability theory
- conceptual — Conceptual means related to ideas and concepts formed in the mind.
- cone plant — any dwarf succulent of the genus Conophytum, native to southern Africa.
- contraplex — relating to the transmission of two messages in opposite directions simultaneously
- cop a feel — to perceive or examine by touch.
- cop a plea — to plead guilty to a criminal charge, esp. so as to get a lighter sentence
- coprolalia — obsessive use of obscene or foul language
- copulating — Present participle of copulate.
- copulation — sexual intercourse.
- copulative — serving to join or unite
- copulatory — to engage in sexual intercourse.
- coral pink — a light to medium yellowish-pink color.
- corn plant — any of several treelike tropical plants of the genus Draecena, especially D. fragrans massangeana, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
- corporally — of the human body; bodily; physical: corporal suffering.
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- coupleable — two of the same sort considered together; pair.
- crab apple — A crab apple is a tree like an apple tree that produces small sour fruit.
- cradle cap — a form of seborrhoea of the scalp common in young babies
- cramp ball — a hard round blackish ascomycetous fungus, Daldinia concentrica, characteristically found on the bark of ash trees and formerly carried to ward off cramp. The specific name refers to the concentric rings revealed if the fungus is sliced
- crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
- crawlspace — (in a building) an area accessible by crawling, having a clearance less than human height, for access to plumbing or wiring, storage, etc.
- cream pail — an open bowl of silver having a ladle or spoon for serving cream.
- curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- curly palm — a feather palm, Howea belmoreana, of Lord Howe Island, having plumy leaves about 7 feet (2.1 meter) long.
- cycle path — A cycle path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- cyclic amp — cyclic adenosine monophosphate: a constituent of biological cells, responsible for triggering processes that are dependent on hormones
- cyclograph — Arcograph.
- cyclopedia — encyclopedia
- cynophilia — a love of dogs
- cytoplasms — Plural form of cytoplasm.
- cytoplasts — Plural form of cytoplast.
- d particle — D meson.
- dall sheep — a wild sheep (Ovis dalli) with white hair and long spiral horns, living in the mountains of NW North America
- dasypaedal — (of the young of some species of birds after hatching) having a covering of down
- daugavpils — a city in SE Latvia on the Western Dvina River: founded in 1274 by Teutonic Knights; ruled by Poland (1559–1772) and Russia (1772–1915); retaken by the Russians in 1940. Pop: 112 609 (2002 est)
- dawes plan — a plan to ensure payments of reparations by Germany after World War I, devised by an international committee headed by Charles Gates Dawes and put into effect in 1924.
- dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
- deathplace — the place at which a person dies: Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.
- deceptable — Vulnerable to deception.
- deck plate — a purlin plate at the edge of a deck.
- deep clean — an exceptionally intense cleaning process
- delipidate — To remove the lipids from.
- deoppilate — to remove obstructions (from)