10-letter words containing p, l, a, s
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- iso pascal — A Lex scanner and Yacc parser are in the comp.sources.unix volume 13 archive.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isopluvial — a line on a map connecting places registering the same amount of precipitation or rainfall
- isopycnals — Plural form of isopycnal.
- jump leads — Jump leads are two thick wires that can be used to start a car when its battery does not have enough power. The jump leads are used to connect the battery to the battery of another car that is working properly.
- kannapolis — a town in W North Carolina.
- karyoplasm — nucleoplasm.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kilopascal — one thousand pascals
- l'hospital — Guillaume François Antoine de [gee-yohm frahn-swa ahn-twan duh] /giˈyoʊm frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1661–1704, French mathematician.
- la perouse — Jean François de Galaup [zhahn frahn-swa duh ga-loh] /ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa də gaˈloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1741–88, French naval officer and explorer.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- lagniappes — Plural form of lagniappe.
- lagomorphs — Plural form of lagomorph.
- lake poets — the English poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who lived in and drew inspiration from the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th century
- lake pskov — the S part of Lake Peipus in NW Russia, linked to the main part by a channel 24 km (15 miles) long. Area: about 1000 sq km (400 sq miles)
- lamp shell — a mollusklike marine animal; brachiopod.
- lamp-shade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- lampshades — Plural form of lampshade.
- landscaped — Simple past tense and past participle of landscape.
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- landscapes — Plural form of landscape.
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- lapidarist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- lapidifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lapidify.
- lapse rate — the rate of decrease of atmospheric temperature with increase of elevation vertically above a given location.
- lapstrakes — Plural form of lapstrake.
- laptev sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean N of the Russian Federation in Asia, between Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands.
- las palmas — Las. Las Palmas.
- laser trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
- 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.
- last sleep — death
- lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leadplants — Plural form of leadplant.
- legateship — The office or authority of a legate.
- leopardess — a female leopard.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- lespedezas — Plural form of lespedeza.
- lesser ape — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- lexiphanes — Plural form of lexiphane.
- lhasa apso — one of a breed of small terriers having a long, heavy coat, raised in Tibet as watchdogs.
- 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.
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lisp-linda — P. Dourish, U Edinburgh 1988.
- lithophysa — a cavity or hollow found in volcanic rocks, caused by expanding gas