10-letter words containing p, o, l, i, t, c
- piccoloist — a person who plays the piccolo.
- pictorials — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pilot cell — one cell in a battery selected and tested to determine the charge or discharge current for the entire battery.
- pina cloth — a fine, sheer fabric of pineapple-leaf fiber, used especially for lingerie.
- planktonic — the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.
- pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pleonectic — characterized by pleonexia
- pleromatic — relating to the pleroma
- pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- poetically — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- poikilitic — (of igneous rocks) having small crystals of one mineral scattered irregularly in larger crystals of another mineral.
- point lace — lace made with a needle rather than with bobbins; needlepoint.
- polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- politician — a person who is active in party politics.
- politicize — to bring a political character or flavor to; make political: to politicize a private dispute.
- polo stick — a stick used to strike the ball in the game of polo
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polyatomic — pertaining to a molecule containing more than two atoms.
- polyclitus — flourished c450–c420 b.c, Greek sculptor.
- polycrotic — having multiple beats or peaks
- polycystic — containing many cysts
- polyethnic — inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.
- polymastic — a person with a polymastic condition
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- polyprotic — (of an acid) having two or more transferable protons.
- ponticello — a bridge on a stringed instrument
- pontifical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- populistic — a member of the People's party.
- portcullis — (especially in medieval castles) a strong grating, as of iron, made to slide along vertical grooves at the sides of a gateway of a fortified place and let down to prevent passage.
- postcoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- postexilic — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- pratincole — any of several limicoline birds of the genus Glareola, of the Eastern Hemisphere, having a short bill, long, narrow, pointed wings, and a forked tail.
- prelection — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- proclivity — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- productile — capable of being lengthened out; extensile.
- projectile — an object fired from a gun with an explosive propelling charge, such as a bullet, shell, rocket, or grenade.
- protocolic — relating to protocol
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
- slow pitch — a variety of softball in which the ball is pitched with an underhand motion at moderate speed in an arc that rises at least six feet above the ground
- slow-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
- telecopier — a fax machine
- telephonic — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
- telescopic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
- the police — the organized civil force of a state, concerned with maintenance of law and order, the detection and prevention of crime, etc
- topicality — the state or quality of being topical.
- topicalize — to introduce as, convert into, or mark as the topic of a sentence.
- tropically — pertaining to, characteristic of, occurring in, or inhabiting the tropics, especially the humid tropics: tropical flowers.