10-letter words containing p, e, t, o, l
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- pot-holder — a thick piece of material, as a quilted or woven pad, used in handling hot pots and dishes.
- potamogale — otter shrew.
- potbellied — Someone, usually a man, who is potbellied has a potbelly.
- potentilla — any rosaceous plant or shrub of the N temperate genus Potentilla, having five-petalled flowers
- pottsville — a city in E Pennsylvania.
- power list — a list (esp one published in a newspaper, magazine, etc) of the most influential or successful people in a particular field or a particular country
- power tool — a tool powered by an electric motor or a gasoline engine.
- powerplant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- 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.
- prattlebox — a person who prattles, a chatterbox
- prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
- prelection — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- prepollent — having power; predominant
- presystole — Physiology. the normal rhythmical contraction of the heart, during which the blood in the chambers is forced onward. Compare diastole.
- problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- proctodeal — a depression in the ectoderm of the anal region of a young embryo, which develops into part of the anal canal.
- productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- profulgent — radiant
- projectile — an object fired from a gun with an explosive propelling charge, such as a bullet, shell, rocket, or grenade.
- prolongate — to prolong.
- promotable — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- promulgate — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- propellant — a propelling agent.
- propellent — serving or tending to propel or drive forward.
- propelment — the act of propulsion
- proratable — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- prosilient — prominent
- proteolyse — to cause to undergo proteolysis
- protologue — the original description of a species, genus, etc.
- protostele — the solid stele of most roots, having a central core of xylem enclosed by phloem.
- protoxylem — the part of the primary xylem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- protrusile — capable of being thrust forth or extended, as the tongue of a hummingbird.
- pseudosalt — a compound whose formula is that of a salt, but that does not ionize in solution
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
- ptolemaeus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 90 miles (144 km) in diameter.
- ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
- ptolemy ii — (surnamed Philadelphus) 309?–247? b.c, king of Egypt 285–247? (son of Ptolemy I).
- pull-quote — (in a magazine or newspaper) an excerpted line or phrase, in a larger or display typeface, run at the top of a page or in a mid-column box to draw attention to the text of the article or story from which it is quoted; blurb.
- pulpectomy — the removal of all the pulp tissue in a tooth in the course of endodontic therapy.
- pulsometer — a pulsimeter.
- pultaceous — resembling pap
- puntillero — (in bullfighting) a worker, or assistant, who gives the coup de grâce to the fallen bull with a puntilla.
- puzzle out — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.