10-letter words containing p, e, l, a, r
- caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
- camelopard — giraffe
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- cape coral — city in SW Fla.: pop. 102,000
- capillaire — a syrup flavoured with maidenhair fern or orange flower water
- capreolate — possessing or resembling tendrils
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- cardplayer — a person who plays cards
- carpellary — (botany) Of or pertaining to carpels.
- carpellate — having carpels.
- carpetable — Suitable for being carpeted.
- carpetless — Not carpeted.
- cartophile — a cartophilist
- clapometer — a device that measures applause
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- claret cup — an iced drink made of claret, brandy, lemon, sugar, and sometimes sherry, Curaçao, etc
- clepsydras — Plural form of clepsydra.
- clip frame — a picture frame that is held together by clips attaching the glass to the backing
- coleoptera — the largest order in the animal kingdom; the beetles
- colportage — the work of a colporteur.
- comparable — Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance.
- complainer — A complainer is someone who complains a lot about their problems or about things they do not like.
- contraplex — relating to the transmission of two messages in opposite directions simultaneously
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- crab apple — A crab apple is a tree like an apple tree that produces small sour fruit.
- cradle cap — a form of seborrhoea of the scalp common in young babies
- crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
- crawlspace — (in a building) an area accessible by crawling, having a clearance less than human height, for access to plumbing or wiring, storage, etc.
- cream pail — an open bowl of silver having a ladle or spoon for serving cream.
- curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
- d particle — D meson.
- dealership — A dealership is a company that sells cars, usually for one car company.
- depilatory — Depilatory substances and processes remove unwanted hair from your body.
- deplorable — If you say that something is deplorable, you think that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- deplorably — causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
- depolarize — to undergo or cause to undergo a loss of polarity or polarization
- deportable — liable to deportation
- depravedly — in a depraved manner
- deprecable — able to be deprecated
- deprivable — Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived.
- despairful — full of despair; hopeless; despairing
- disapparel — to remove the clothing from (a person)
- disparlure — a pheromone, C 19 H 38 O, released by female gypsy moths.
- dispersals — Plural form of dispersal.
- doorplates — Plural form of doorplate.
- drawplates — Plural form of drawplate.
- drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
- drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
- drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.