10-letter words containing p, l, a, c, e
- kleptocrat — a government official who is a thief or exploiter.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- landscapes — Plural form of landscape.
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- laparocele — (medicine) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- leprechaun — a dwarf or sprite.
- leucopathy — (dated) albinism.
- leucopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- line space — (on a typewriter, typesetter, printer, or the like) the horizontal space provided for a line of typing, typesetting, printing, etc.
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
- mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
- metacarpal — of or relating to the metacarpus.
- metaleptic — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- napoleonic — pertaining to, resembling, or suggestive of Napoleon I, or, less often, Napoleon III, or their dynasty: the Napoleonic era; a Napoleonic attitude toward one's employees.
- narcolepsy — a condition characterized by frequent and uncontrollable periods of deep sleep.
- 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.
- non placet — (especially in a church or university assembly) an expression or vote of dissent or disapproval.
- nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- null-space — the set of elements of a vector space that a given linear transformation maps to zero.
- occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- operculate — having an operculum.
- overplaced — placed above
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
- packsaddle — a saddle specifically designed for holding or supporting the load on a pack animal.
- paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
- palaeocene — of, denoting, or formed in the first epoch of the Tertiary period, which lasted for 10 million years
- palaeozoic — of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period
- pale-faced — having a pale face
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- pallescent — becoming paler in colour with increasing age
- palm beach — a town in SE Florida: seaside winter resort.
- palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
- palmaceous — belonging to the plant family Palmae.
- palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- paper clip — small clasp that holds papers together
- paper-clip — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
- paracelsus — Philippus Aureolus [fi-lip-uh s aw-ree-oh-luh s] /fɪˈlɪp əs ɔˈri oʊ ləs/ (Show IPA), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) 1493?–1541, Swiss physician and alchemist.
- parallel c — 1. (language, parallel) Never implemented, but influenced the design of C*. [Details?] 2. C for the transputer by 3L. 3. (PC) Extensions to C developed at the University of Houston providing a shared memory SIMD model on message passing computers. E-mail: Ridgway Scott <[email protected]>.
- paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.