10-letter words containing p, l, o, i
- improperly — not proper; not strictly belonging, applicable, correct, etc.; erroneous: He drew improper conclusions from the scant evidence.
- improvable — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- impulsions — Plural form of impulsion.
- inceptisol — a soil so young that horizons have just begun to form: especially prevalent in tundra areas.
- incomplete — not complete; lacking some part.
- incorporal — Obsolete form of incorporeal.
- indophenol — a quinonimine derivative that is the parent substance of the blue and green indophenol dyes.
- inoperable — not operable or practicable.
- inpossible — Obsolete spelling of impossible.
- interloped — Simple past tense and past participle of interlope.
- interloper — a person who interferes or meddles in the affairs of others: He was an athiest who felt like an interloper in this religious gathering.
- interlopes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlope.
- interpolar — connecting or being between poles: an interpolar flight.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- 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.
- isoplethic — Relating to isopleths.
- isopluvial — a line on a map connecting places registering the same amount of precipitation or rainfall
- isopycnals — Plural form of isopycnal.
- italophile — a person who admires Italian customs, traditions, etc.
- ivory palm — the palm bearing the common ivory nut.
- joe public — also Joe Bloggs; US = John Q. Public
- kannapolis — a town in W North Carolina.
- kiloampère — one thousand amperes
- 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.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- laloplegia — paralysis of the speech organs in which the tongue is not affected.
- lampooning — a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- lapidation — to pelt with stones.
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- leopold ii — 1747–92, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1790–92 (son of Francis I; brother of Joseph II and Marie Antoinette).
- lepidolite — a mineral of the mica group, potassium lithium aluminum silicate, commonly occurring in lilac, rose-colored, or whitish scaly masses: an ore of lithium.
- 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.
- leucopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leukopenia — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- leukopenic — a decrease in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- li t'ai-po — Li Po
- lightproof — impervious to light: a lightproof film cartridge.
- limitrophe — (of a country or region) on or near a frontier
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- lipofuscin — any of several brown pigments similar to melanin that accumulate in animal cells with age and are products of oxidation of lipids and lipoproteins.
- lipography — unintentional omission in writing, as of a specific letter or syllable.
- lipomatous — a benign tumor consisting of fat tissue.
- lipophilic — having a strong affinity for lipids.