10-letter words containing l, p, s, o
- bipetalous — having two petals
- black spot — If you describe a place, time, or part of a situation as a black spot, you mean that it is particularly bad or likely to cause problems.
- blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
- blind spot — If you say that someone has a blind spot about something, you mean that they seem to be unable to understand it or to see how important it is.
- blind-spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- bolan pass — a mountain pass in W central Pakistan through the Brahui Range, between Sibi and Quetta, rising to 1800 m (5900 ft)
- box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
- breastplow — a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- calliopsis — coreopsis
- calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
- campstools — Plural form of campstool.
- cap pistol — a toy gun using caps to imitate the sound of a real pistol.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- celioscope — celoscope.
- celioscopy — celoscope.
- clampdowns — Plural form of clampdown.
- clapboards — Plural form of clapboard.
- click stop — a control device, as in a camera, that can be turned or rotated so that when it reaches a specific setting it engages with an audible click.
- clipboards — Plural form of clipboard.
- clistocarp — cleistothecium.
- clonotypes — Plural form of clonotype.
- clothespin — A clothespin is the same as a clothes peg.
- cloudscape — a picturesque formation of clouds
- co-publish — to publish (something) with another person or company
- codswallop — If you describe something that someone has just said as codswallop, you mean that you think it is nonsense.
- coeloscope — celoscope.
- cold-spell — a sudden onset of a relatively brief period of cold weather.
- colestipol — a drug that reduces the concentration of cholesterol in the blood: used, together with dietary restriction of cholesterol, to treat selected patients with hypercholesterolaemia and so prevent atherosclerosis
- collapsars — Plural form of collapsar.
- collapsing — Present participle of collapse.
- collapsion — (archaic) collapse.
- collotypes — Plural form of collotype.
- colposcope — an instrument for examining the uterine cervix, esp for early signs of cancer
- colposcopy — an examination by means of a colposcope.
- complaints — A statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
- completers — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- completest — Superlative form of complete.
- completist — a person with an obsessive interest in a subject
- composable — to make or form by combining things, parts, or elements: He composed his speech from many research notes.
- composedly — calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.
- compulsion — A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
- compulsive — You use compulsive to describe people or their behaviour when they cannot stop doing something wrong, harmful, or unnecessary.
- compulsory — If something is compulsory, you must do it or accept it, because it is the law or because someone in a position of authority says you must.
- consulship — an official appointed by the government of one country to look after its commercial interests and the welfare of its citizens in another country.
- copolymers — Plural form of copolymer.
- coprolites — Plural form of coprolite.
- corpselike — Resembling a corpse.
- corpuscles — Plural form of corpuscle.
- corpuscule — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.