10-letter words containing p, e, r, l, c
- corpulence — fatness or stoutness of body; obesity
- corpulency — Alternative form of corpulence.
- corpuscles — Plural form of corpuscle.
- corpuscule — Biology. an unattached cell, especially of a kind that floats freely, as a blood or lymph cell.
- cospectral — (mathematics) isospectral.
- cover slip — Microscopy. cover glass.
- 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.
- creepingly — in a creeping manner
- crepe sole — a shoe sole made of crepe rubber
- crepuscule — twilight; dusk
- crippledom — the state of being crippled
- cup-holder — a device for holding a cup upright, esp in a motor vehicle
- 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.
- decompiler — (computer science) A computer program performing the reverse operation to that of a compiler.
- decrepitly — In a decrepit way.
- deprecable — able to be deprecated
- dip circle — an instrument for measuring dip, consisting of a dip needle with a vertical circular scale of angles
- drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
- electropop — a genre of pop music characterized by the use of synthesizers to replace guitars and drums
- eolotropic — Alternative spelling of aeolotropic.
- epicardial — Of or pertaining to the epicardium.
- epicentral — Of or pertaining to an epicentre.
- everyplace — (US, informal) Everywhere.
- explicator — A person or thing who explicates.
- field crop — any of the herbaceous plants grown on a large scale in cultivated fields: primarily a grain, forage, sugar, oil, or fiber crop.
- filler cap — a device sealing the filling pipe to the petrol tank in a motor vehicle
- fireplaces — Plural form of fireplace.
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- glucophore — a chemical group responsible for sweetness of taste
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- helicopter — any of a class of heavier-than-air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine.
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- hop clover — a trefoil, Trifolium campestre, having withered, yellow flowers that resemble the strobiles of a hop.
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- hypergolic — (especially of rocket-fuel propellant constituents) igniting spontaneously upon contact with a complementary substance.
- hyperlocal — relating to or focused on a very small geographical community, as a neighborhood: hyperlocal news websites; hyperlocal advertising.
- imparlance — an extension of time granted to one party in a lawsuit to plead or to settle the dispute amicably.
- j particle — an early name for the J/psi particle.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kleptocrat — a government official who is a thief or exploiter.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.