10-letter words containing o, c, e, l
- inchoately — not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
- incomplete — not complete; lacking some part.
- indicolite — Mineralogy. a dark-blue tourmaline, used as a gem.
- inflection — modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice.
- innocently — free from moral wrong; without sin; pure: innocent children.
- innoculate — Alternative spelling of inoculate.
- inoculable — capable of being inoculated.
- inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- inoculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inoculate.
- inosculate — Join by intertwining or fitting closely together.
- insociable — unsociable.
- insolvency — the condition of being insolvent; bankruptcy.
- interlocal — pertaining to or characterized by place or position in space; spatial.
- interlocks — Plural form of interlock.
- involucred — (botany) Having an involucre.
- involucres — Plural form of involucre.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isoelastic — noting or pertaining to a substance or system exhibiting uniform elasticity throughout.
- isoleucine — a crystalline amino acid, C 6 H 13 O 2 , occurring in proteins, that is essential to the nutrition of humans and animals. Symbol: I. Abbreviation: Ile;
- isoplethic — Relating to isopleths.
- jack towel — a long towel with the ends sewed together, for hanging on a roller.
- jelly coat — an ovum-produced glycoprotein that causes adhesion of sperm to the ovum; fertilizin.
- joe public — also Joe Bloggs; US = John Q. Public
- john locke — Alain LeRoy [al-in luh-roi,, lee-roi] /ˈæl ɪn ləˈrɔɪ,, ˈli rɔɪ/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, U.S. educator and author.
- kalanchoes — Plural form of kalanchoe.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kleptocrat — a government official who is a thief or exploiter.
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- lacedaemon — Sparta.
- laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
- lachrymose — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
- lactogenic — stimulating lactation.
- lactometer — an instrument for determining the specific gravity of milk.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- lalochezia — (rare) The use of vulgar or foul language to relieve stress or pain.
- lanceolate — shaped like the head of a lance.
- land force — an armed force serving on land
- landlocked — shut in completely, or almost completely, by land: a landlocked bay.
- laparocele — (medicine) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
- lardaceous — lardlike; fatty.
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- latecomers — Plural form of latecomer.
- launceston — a city on N Tasmania.
- lauraceous — belonging to the plant family Lauraceae.
- le creusot — a city in E central France.
- le duc tho — (Phan Dinh Khai) 1911–90, Vietnamese politician and statesman: declined 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.
- lead block — any block that alters the direction of a rope; fairlead.
- lead colic — painter's colic.
- leaf coral — any red algae of the species Bossea orbigniana, common as a seaweed along the Pacific coast of the U.S., having calcified, flattened, jointed stems.