10-letter words containing p, l, a, t, s
- false step — a stumble.
- felspathic — feldspathic.
- fishplates — Plural form of fishplate.
- flashpoint — Also, flashing point. Physical Chemistry. the lowest temperature at which a liquid in a specified apparatus will give off sufficient vapor to ignite momentarily on application of a flame.
- flop sweat — a sudden heavy perspiration caused by embarrassment
- footplates — Plural form of footplate.
- geospatial — Relating to or denoting data that is associated with a particular location.
- glyphosate — a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.
- gymnoplast — a mass of protoplasm without an enclosing wall.
- halophytes — Plural form of halophyte.
- haplotypes — Plural form of haplotype.
- health spa — a resort or a special building or room where a person may exercise, swim, or otherwise condition the body.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle
- hypoblasts — Plural form of hypoblast.
- implicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of implicate.
- in plaster — If you have a leg or arm in plaster, you have a cover made of plaster of Paris around your leg or arm, in order to protect a broken bone and allow it to mend.
- inculpates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inculpate.
- interplays — Plural form of interplay.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- l'hospital — Guillaume François Antoine de [gee-yohm frahn-swa ahn-twan duh] /giˈyoʊm frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1661–1704, French mathematician.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- 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
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- lapidarist — Also, lapidist [lap-i-dist] /ˈlæp ɪ dɪst/ (Show IPA). a worker who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones.
- 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.
- 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.
- last sleep — death
- leadplants — Plural form of leadplant.
- legateship — The office or authority of a legate.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lithophysa — a cavity or hollow found in volcanic rocks, caused by expanding gas
- logansport — a city in N Indiana, on the Wabash River.
- loon pants — trousers that flare from the knee
- lymphatics — Plural form of lymphatic.
- mast clamp — a pierced slab of hardwood built into the deck structure of a small ship or boat to receive the force of the mast, which is fitted tightly through it.
- masterplan — a general plan or program for achieving an objective.
- 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
- multipacks — Plural form of multipack.