10-letter words containing o, c, e, l
- palaeozoic — of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- parcel out — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
- peccadillo — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- pecos bill — a legendary cowboy of the American frontier who performed such fabulous feats as digging the Rio Grande.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- pediculous — the state of being infested with lice.
- pedophilic — pedophile.
- pelargonic — of or derived from a pelargonium or pelargonic acid.
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- penal code — the aggregate of statutory enactments dealing with crimes and their punishment.
- pencil box — a shallow covered box, usually of pasteboard, for holding pencils and crayons: used by children as an item of school equipment.
- peptolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- perchloric — of or derived from perchloric acid.
- percolator — a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up a hollow stem, filters down through ground coffee in a sievelike container, and returns to the pot below.
- periculous — dangerous; perilous
- periodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- petrol can — a container for carrying petrol
- petrol cap — a small cover that goes over the hole in a vehicle into which you put petrol
- phlegmonic — relating to or having the characteristics of a phlegmon
- phocomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- phone call — telephone call
- phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- photocells — a solid-state device that converts light into electrical energy by producing a voltage, as in a photovoltaic cell, or uses light to regulate the flow of current, as in a photoconductive cell: used in automatic control systems for doors, lighting, etc.
- phylogenic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pickleworm — the larva of a pyralid moth, Diaphania nitidalis, that bores into the stem and fruit of squash, cucumber, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
- pillowcase — a removable sacklike covering, usually of cotton, drawn over a pillow.
- pilot cell — one cell in a battery selected and tested to determine the charge or discharge current for the entire battery.
- pin clover — alfilaria.
- pl cornell — Programming Language/Cornell
- pleochroic — (of a biaxial crystal) characterized by pleochroism.
- pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleonectic — characterized by pleonexia
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- pocketable — small enough to be carried in one's pocket; pocket-size.
- poetically — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- point lace — lace made with a needle rather than with bobbins; needlepoint.
- pole piece — a piece of magnetic material at a pole of a permanent magnet or of an electromagnet, shaped to control the magnetic flux distribution in the vicinity of the pole.
- polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- polemicize — to practice the art of disputation; to engage in polemics or controversy.
- police car — squad car.
- police dog — a dog trained to assist the police.
- politicize — to bring a political character or flavor to; make political: to politicize a private dispute.
- pollen sac — one of the cavities in an anther in which pollen is produced.
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge