10-letter words containing p, i, s, t, l
- inceptisol — a soil so young that horizons have just begun to form: especially prevalent in tundra areas.
- inculpates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inculpate.
- interlopes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlope.
- interplays — Plural form of interplay.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- isoplethic — Relating to isopleths.
- l'hospital — Guillaume François Antoine de [gee-yohm frahn-swa ahn-twan duh] /giˈyoʊm frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1661–1704, French mathematician.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- lapidarist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- legateship — The office or authority of a legate.
- leptosomic — a person of asthenic build.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- leptospire — Any bacterium of the genus Leptospira.
- lightships — Plural form of lightship.
- lightspeed — The speed of light.
- limp wrist — a contemptuous term used to refer to a homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lipsticked — Decorated with lipstick.
- list price — the price at which a product is usually sold to the public and from which a trade discount is computed by a wholesaler.
- lithophysa — a cavity or hollow found in volcanic rocks, caused by expanding gas
- liver spot — a dark brown skin spot, usually caused by sun exposure
- livescript — JavaScript
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- meta-vlisp — (language) An innovative Lisp dialect by E. St.James of IBP, France.
- metalepsis — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- metaplasia — the transformation of one type of tissue into another.
- metaplasis — the second of three stages of ontogenetic development proposed by Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, in which the development of the individual is complete
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- monopolist — a person who has a monopoly.
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- multiplies — Plural form of multiply.
- multispeed — Capable of operating at multiple speeds.
- multisport — designed or used for a variety of sports.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- nonplastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- nonspatial — of or relating to space.
- occipitals — Plural form of occipital.
- octoploids — Plural form of octoploid.
- oppositely — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- optologist — a person who tests eyes for lenses
- ostpolitik — the German policy toward the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, especially the expansionist views of Hitler in the 1930s and the normalization program of the West German government in the 1960s and 1970s.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palimpsest — a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- papillitis — the inflammation of a papilla
- papistical — of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
- partialism — a theory or view that does not take into account all the facts
- partialist — a person who is partial