11-letter words containing p, a, l, e, o
- appointable — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- archipelago — An archipelago is a group of islands, especially small islands.
- armor plate — a protective covering of specially hardened steel plates, as on a tank
- arolla pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra, found esp in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
- atelophobia — The fear of imperfection or not being good enough.
- atomic pile — nuclear reactor
- audiophiles — Plural form of audiophile.
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- axerophthol — any form of vitamin A
- barber pole — a pole with spiral stripes of red and white, used as a symbol of the barber's trade
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
- bicephalous — having two heads
- black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
- boat people — Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
- cape collar — a soft, wide, circular collar that covers the shoulders and the upper arms like a cape.
- cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa
- cape-glossa — Cape, a promontory in SW Albania.
- captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
- cargo plane — a plane carrying cargo
- carpet plot — the graphed values of a function of more than one variable, read from an ordinate at points located by the intersection of curves of constant values of each of the variables
- cattle prod — A cattle prod is an object shaped like a long stick. Farmers make cattle move in a particular direction by pushing the cattle prod against the bodies of the animals.
- cattle-stop — a grid of metal bars covering a hollow or hole dug in a roadway, intended to prevent the passage of livestock while allowing vehicles, etc, to pass unhindered
- cebocephaly — A developmental anomaly of the head, characterized by a monkey-like head with a defective small, flattened nose with a single nostril or absent nose and closely set eyes.
- cephalocele — a protrusion of the brain or cranial matter through an opening in the skull
- cephalogram — An X-ray of the craniofacial area.
- cephalopode — Archaic form of cephalopod.
- cephalopods — Plural form of cephalopod.
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- cephalotomy — the dissection of the head
- ceroplastic — relating to wax modelling
- chairpeople — a person who presides over a meeting, committee, board, etc.
- chalcophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for sulfur.
- channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
- chromeplate — to plate with chromium.