10-letter words containing p, i, l
- bipolarize — to make bipolar
- birth pill — a pill which prevents a woman from conceiving
- birth plan — a statement by a mother telling doctors and midwives how she would like her labour to proceed
- birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
- bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
- bisulphide — a disulfide.
- bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
- bit player — a person with a very small acting role with few lines to speak
- bitch-slap — to strike (someone) with one's open hand
- blepharism — spasm of the eyelids, causing rapid involuntary blinking
- blimpishly — in a blimpish manner
- blind copy — a copy of a letter or the like, the original of which bears no evidence that the copy was sent to some other person.
- blind spot — If you say that someone has a blind spot about something, you mean that they seem to be unable to understand it or to see how important it is.
- blind-spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- blowing up — a reprimand
- blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
- bottle imp — Cartesian diver.
- brillo pad — a scouring pad made of wire wool filled with soap
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- 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)
- calciphile — calcicole.
- calciphobe — calcifuge.
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- caliphates — Plural form of caliphate.
- calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
- calliopean — resembling a calliope in sound; piercingly loud: a calliopean voice.
- calliopsis — coreopsis
- callithump — a noisy band or parade
- calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
- camel spin — camel (def 3).
- campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
- candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
- canophilia — the love of dogs
- cap pistol — a toy gun using caps to imitate the sound of a real pistol.
- capability — If you have the capability or the capabilities to do something, you have the ability or the qualities that are necessary to do it.
- capillaire — a syrup flavoured with maidenhair fern or orange flower water
- capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
- capitalise — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- capitalism — Capitalism is an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are owned by private individuals and not by the state.
- capitalist — A capitalist country or system supports or is based on the principles of capitalism.
- capitalize — If you capitalize on a situation, you use it to gain some advantage for yourself.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- capitolian — of or relating to the Capitoline
- capitoline — of or relating to the Capitoline or the temple of Jupiter
- capitulant — a person who capitulates
- capitulary — any of the collections of ordinances promulgated by the Frankish kings (8th–10th centuries ad)
- capitulate — If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
- capnophile — (biology) A microorganism that requires or grows best in presence of high concentrations of carbon dioxide.
- caprioling — Present participle of capriole.