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10-letter words containing p, a, l, c, i, o

  • postcoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
  • pozzolanic — (of a cement admixture) having properties similar to those of pozzolana.
  • pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
  • prelogical — according to or agreeing with the principles of logic: a logical inference.
  • prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
  • proclaimer — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
  • proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
  • profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
  • prolicidal — characteristic of prolicide
  • provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
  • replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
  • roach clip — a small tweezerlike clip for holding the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
  • sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
  • scalloping — any of the bivalve mollusks of the genus Argopecten (Pecten) and related genera that swim by rapidly clapping the fluted shell valves together.
  • scallopini — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
  • scaloppine — scallops, especially of veal, flattened by pounding and usually dredged in flour or breadcrumbs and sautéed quickly: scaloppine alla Marsala.
  • shopaholic — a frequent shopper, especially one who is unable to control his or her spending.
  • slip a cog — (not in technical use) a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.
  • spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
  • spondaical — composed of spondees
  • sporadical — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
  • sporicidal — a substance or preparation for killing spores.
  • topicality — the state or quality of being topical.
  • topicalize — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
  • tropically — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.
  • zooplastic — the transplantation of living tissue to the human body from an animal of another species.
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