10-letter words containing l, p, s
- cataplasms — Plural form of cataplasm.
- cattleship — a large vessel for the transportation of livestock.
- celioscope — celoscope.
- celioscopy — celoscope.
- cephalitis — encephalitis.
- chaparrals — Plural form of chaparral.
- cheapishly — in a fairly cheap manner
- cinephiles — Plural form of cinephile.
- clampdowns — Plural form of clampdown.
- clap skate — a type of speed skate with a blade attached at the heel by a hinge, allowing the full length of the blade to remain on the ice for a longer time and increasing skating speed.
- clapboards — Plural form of clapboard.
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- 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.
- clientship — the state of being a client
- 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.
- corylopsis — any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Corylopsis, which are found in eastern Asia and have yellow flowers
- cosmopolis — an international city
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- cover slip — Microscopy. cover glass.
- crawlspace — (in a building) an area accessible by crawling, having a clearance less than human height, for access to plumbing or wiring, storage, etc.