10-letter words containing o, c, e, l
- unpolicied — not politically or socially organized
- unschooled — not schooled, taught, or trained: Though unschooled, he had a grasp of the subject.
- unsociable — not sociable; having, showing, or marked by a disinclination to friendly social relations; withdrawn.
- unwelcomed — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- uricotelic — designating those animals, as reptiles or birds, that excrete most of their waste nitrogen in the form of uric acid, usually in the urine
- uvulectomy — excision of the uvula.
- vacuolated — having a vacuole or vacuoles.
- varicocele — a varicose condition of the spermatic veins of the scrotum.
- velocipede — a vehicle, usually having two or three wheels, that is propelled by the rider.
- versicolor — changeable in color: versicolor skies.
- vesiculose — composed of or containing vesicles
- video call — a call made via a mobile phone with a camera and a screen, allowing the participants to see each other as they talk
- video clip — short videotape extract
- video club — a club from which members can rent films on video or DVD
- viola clef — alto clef.
- violaceous — belonging to the Violaceae, the violet family of plants. Compare violet family.
- violescent — tending to a violet color: a violescent twilight sky.
- voice coil — a moving coil that drives the diaphragm of a sound reproduction system, as a loudspeaker, by the interaction of a changing magnetic field that is produced by a current in the coil and a fixed magnetic field that is produced by permanent magnets.
- voice mail — an electronic system enabling the recording and storage of (usually digitized) voice messages, which can subsequently be retrieved by the intended recipient.
- voice-lift — a cosmetic surgical operation on the vocal cords to make the voice sound younger
- volte-face — a turnabout, especially a reversal of opinion or policy.
- volumetric — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- vorticella — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Vorticella, having a transparent, bell-shaped body with a retractile stalk.
- water-cool — to cool by means of water, especially by water circulating in pipes or a water jacket, as an engine or machine gun.
- watercolor — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- wheel lock — an old type of gunlock in which sparks are produced by the friction of a small steel wheel against a piece of iron pyrites.
- white coal — Informal. water, as of a stream, used for power.
- wholescale — Wholesale (extensive).
- wire cloth — a material of wires of moderate fineness, used for making strainers, manufacturing paper, etc.
- wood melic — a pale green perennial grass, M. uniflora, that is common in woodlands and has branching flower heads
- workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
- worldscale — the standard scale of freight rates for oil tankers
- xenolithic — Being or pertaining to a xenolith.
- xenophilic — an attraction to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs.
- xerophilic — Capable of growing and reproducing in conditions with a low availability of water.
- xylochrome — a colouring agent made from the chemical alteration of decomposed wood
- yellowback — (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
- yellowcake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
- zelophobic — fearful of jealousy; displaying or affected with zelophobia
- zooculture — the domestication of animals
- zoothecial — of or relating to the zoothecia