10-letter words containing o, u, l, e
- pomosexual — of or relating to a person who does not wish his or her sexuality to be put into a conventional category
- pompelmous — pomelo.
- popularise — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- popularize — to make popular: to popularize a dance.
- postbellum — occurring after a war, especially after the American Civil War: postbellum reforms.
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- pourparler — an informal preliminary conference.
- powerfully — having or exerting great power or force.
- preciously — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- preclosure — the act of closing; the state of being closed.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- preludious — characteristic of a prelude
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- procedural — procedural language
- procellous — stormy, as the sea.
- processual — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- procoelous — describing vertebrae with a concave cranial surface
- procurable — obtainable.
- producible — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
- profluence — abundance
- profulgent — radiant
- prologuize — to compose or deliver a prologue.
- promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
- propulsive — 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.
- protologue — the original description of a species, genus, etc.
- protrusile — capable of being thrust forth or extended, as the tongue of a hummingbird.
- pseudoalum — any of a class of alums in which the usual monovalent metal of a true alum is replaced by a bivalent metal
- pseudobulb — an enlarged, aboveground portion of stem, present in many tropical orchids, in which moisture is stored.
- pseudocoel — the body cavity of certain invertebrate metazoan animals between the body wall and the intestine, which is not lined with a mesodermal epithelium.
- pseudology — lying considered as an art.
- pseudosalt — a compound whose formula is that of a salt, but that does not ionize in solution
- ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
- pull-quote — (in a magazine or newspaper) an excerpted line or phrase, in a larger or display typeface, run at the top of a page or in a mid-column box to draw attention to the text of the article or story from which it is quoted; blurb.
- pulpectomy — the removal of all the pulp tissue in a tooth in the course of endodontic therapy.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- pultaceous — resembling pap
- puntillero — (in bullfighting) a worker, or assistant, who gives the coup de grâce to the fallen bull with a puntilla.
- puppy love — temporary infatuation of a boy or girl for another person.
- pure vowel — a vowel that is pronounced with more or less unvarying quality without any glide; monophthong
- purposeful — having a purpose.
- puzzle box — an enclosure, used in experiments in animal learning, from which an animal must escape or in which it must manipulate various devices.
- puzzle out — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
- 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.
- quadripole — an electric circuit with two input and two output terminals
- quadrupole — a set of four associated positive and negative electric charges or two associated magnetic dipoles
- quail dove — any of several tropical American pigeons of the genera Starnoenas or Geotrygon.