10-letter words containing p, a, r, e, l
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- laid paper — paper with fine parallel and cross lines produced in manufacturing.
- lampadaire — a pedestal of the Empire period for a lamp or candelabrum.
- lamper eel — lamprey.
- lampholder — a fixture for an electric light bulb
- lampoonery — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- land power — a nation having an important and powerful army.
- landlouper — A vagabond; a vagrant.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- laparocele — (medicine) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
- laparotome — a cutting instrument for performing a laparotomy.
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- lapse rate — the rate of decrease of atmospheric temperature with increase of elevation vertically above a given location.
- lapstrakes — Plural form of lapstrake.
- laser trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leafhopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leopardess — a female leopard.
- leprechaun — a dwarf or sprite.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- lesser ape — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
- linear map — (mathematics) (Or "linear transformation") A function from a vector space to a vector space which respects the additive and multiplicative structures of the two: that is, for any two vectors, u, v, in the source vector space and any scalar, k, in the field over which it is a vector space, a linear map f satisfies f(u+kv) = f(u) + kf(v).
- lipizzaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
- lippizaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
- lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- liver opal — a form of opal having a reddish-brown coloration
- liver pâté — pâté made from minced liver meat
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- loves park — a town in N Illinois.
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
- mabe pearl — a smooth cultured pearl cultivated in a hemispherical shape so that it has one flat and one convex surface.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- map turtle — any of several aquatic turtles of the genus Graptemys, as G. geographica, of the eastern and central U.S., usually having yellow stripes on the head and neck.
- marprelate — Martin, the pen name of the anonymous author or authors of a series of satirical Puritan tracts (1588–89), attacking the bishops of the Church of England
- masterplan — a general plan or program for achieving an objective.
- melon pear — pepino (def 2).
- menlo park — a city in W California, near San Francisco.
- metacarpal — of or relating to the metacarpus.
- mobe pearl — mabe pearl.
- monopteral — having the form of a monopteron.
- morse lamp — a blinker lamp for signaling in Morse code.
- mp3 player — a digital media player, usually portable, that plays and stores files in the MP3 format.
- multiparae — Plural form of multipara.
- nalorphine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 1 9 H 2 1 NO 3 , used to nullify respiratory depression due to narcotics and for the diagnosis of addiction to narcotics.
- naperville — a city in NE Illinois.