10-letter words containing l, p, s
- pig island — New Zealand
- pikesville — a town in central Maryland, near Baltimore.
- pilastered — having, or supported by, pilasters.
- pilastrade — a row of pilasters.
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pillarless — having no pillars or upright structural supports
- pillionist — a passenger riding on the pillion of a motorcycle
- pilliwinks — an old instrument of torture similar to the thumbscrew.
- pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
- pilot fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilot-fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pink slime — beef trimmings that have been ground and liquefied, used as a binder in minced beef and other meat products
- pismo clam — a large edible clam, Tivela stultorum, of sandy shores of California and Mexico.
- pistillate — having a pistil or pistils.
- pistillode — a sterile pistil, or one with a simple structure and reduced size and function
- pit sample — a sample of new steel taken for chemical analysis during teeming.
- pitilessly — feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.
- pittsfield — a city in W Massachusetts.
- placidness — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- plagiarise — to take and use by plagiarism.
- plagiarism — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- plagiarist — an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne. Synonyms: appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.
- plaguesome — vexatious or troublesome.
- plain sail — any of the ordinary working sails of a vessel.
- plain suit — a suit other than the trump suit.
- plain-song — the unisonous vocal music used in the Christian church from the earliest times.
- plaintless — without complaint
- planer saw — a hollow-ground circular saw for ripping and cutting across grain, having raker teeth for clearing away the chips cut by the cutting teeth.
- planlessly — in a planless or aimless manner
- planoblast — the medusa of a hydroid.
- planospore — a zoospore.
- plant cost — the cost to a business of mechanical equipment
- plasmacyte — Anatomy. an antibody-secreting cell, derived from B cells, that plays a major role in antibody-mediated immunity.
- plasmagene — a self-replicating genetic particle postulated to be in the cytoplasm of a cell, as in mitochondria.
- plasmodial — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plasmodium — Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds.
- plasmogamy — the fusion of the protoplasts of cells.
- plasmolyse — to subject (a cell) to plasmolysis or (of a cell) to undergo plasmolysis
- plasmolyze — to subject to or undergo plasmolysis
- plasmosoma — a nucleolus
- plasmosome — a true nucleolus, as distinguished from a karyosome.
- plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- plasticine — Plasticine is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- plasticity — the quality or state of being plastic.
- plasticize — to make or become plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- plastidial — relating to a plastid
- plastidule — a small particle of protoplasm
- plastilina — a non-drying, oil-based modeling material
- plastogamy — the fusion of multiple cells without the fusion of their nuclei