10-letter words containing l, y, o
- port royal — a village in S South Carolina, on Port Royal island: colonized by French Huguenots 1562.
- positively — with certainty; absolutely: The statement is positively true.
- postliminy — the right by which persons and things taken in war are restored to their former status when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- potability — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
- potamology — the study of rivers.
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- power play — Football. an aggressive running play in which numerous offensive players converge and forge ahead to block and clear a path for the ball carrier.
- powerfully — having or exerting great power or force.
- praxeology — the study of human conduct.
- preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- prepyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- presystole — Physiology. the normal rhythmical contraction of the heart, during which the blood in the chambers is forced onward. Compare diastole.
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- pro-family — that favors or benefits families
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proctology — the branch of medicine dealing with the rectum and anus.
- prodigally — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- profoundly — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- propensely — with propensity
- propulsory — the act or process of propelling.
- propylaeum — Often, propylaea. a vestibule or entrance to a temple area or other enclosure, especially when elaborate or of architectural importance.
- proslavery — favoring slavery.
- proteolyse — to cause to undergo proteolysis
- protoxylem — the part of the primary xylem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- prowlingly — in the manner of a prowl
- proximally — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- psephology — the study of elections.
- pseudology — lying considered as an art.
- psilocybin — a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, C 1 2 H 1 7 N 2 O 4 P, obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- ptolemy ii — (surnamed Philadelphus) 309?–247? b.c, king of Egypt 285–247? (son of Ptolemy I).
- pulpectomy — the removal of all the pulp tissue in a tooth in the course of endodontic therapy.
- puppy love — temporary infatuation of a boy or girl for another person.
- pycnocline — a layer, zone, or gradient of changing density, esp. a thin layer of ocean water with a density that increases rapidly with depth
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
- pyrazoline — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing three carbon atoms, two adjacent nitrogen atoms, and one double bond in the ring.
- pyrazolone — any of the group of heterocyclic compounds containing the pyrazoline ring in which one carbon atom is doubly linked to an oxygen atom not in the ring.
- pyretology — a discourse on fevers
- pyrochlore — a mineral, chiefly composed of niobates of the cerium metals, occurring in syenites in the form of brown crystals.
- pyrogallol — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous, solid, phenolic compound, C 6 H 3 (OH) 3 , obtained by heating gallic acid and water: used chiefly as a developer in photography, as a mordant for wool, in dyeing, and in medicine in the treatment of certain skin conditions.
- pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
- pyrolysate — a product of pyrolysis
- quadrilogy — (nonstandard) A tetralogy.
- radio play — a play written for broadcasting on radio