0%

10-letter words containing p, o, l, i, t

  • pot liquor — Midland and Southern U.S. the broth in which meat or vegetables, as salt pork or greens, have been cooked.
  • potability — fit or suitable for drinking: potable water.
  • potbellied — Someone, usually a man, who is potbellied has a potbelly.
  • potentilla — any rosaceous plant or shrub of the N temperate genus Potentilla, having five-petalled flowers
  • pottsville — a city in E Pennsylvania.
  • power list — a list (esp one published in a newspaper, magazine, etc) of the most influential or successful people in a particular field or a particular country
  • 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.
  • problemist — someone who composes and solves problems, esp in chess or mathematics
  • 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.
  • profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
  • profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
  • profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
  • profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
  • proglottid — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
  • proglottis — one of the segments or joints of a tapeworm, containing complete reproductive systems, usually both male and female.
  • projectile — an object fired from a gun with an explosive propelling charge, such as a bullet, shell, rocket, or grenade.
  • proplastid — a plant cell organelle that a plastid develops from
  • prosilient — prominent
  • protocolic — relating to protocol
  • protrusile — capable of being thrust forth or extended, as the tongue of a hummingbird.
  • psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
  • pterylosis — the arrangement of feathers on a bird
  • ptolemaist — an adherent or advocate of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy.
  • ptolemy ii — (surnamed Philadelphus) 309?–247? b.c, king of Egypt 285–247? (son of Ptolemy I).
  • pultrusion — a process for manufacturing reinforced plastic products in which a bundle of glass fibres is pulled through a resin bath and then through a heated die to shape the resin
  • puntillero — (in bullfighting) a worker, or assistant, who gives the coup de grâce to the fallen bull with a puntilla.
  • pyrolusite — a common mineral, manganese dioxide, MnO 2 , the principal ore of manganese, used in various manufactures, as a decolorizer of brown or green tints in glass, and as a depolarizer in dry-cell batteries.
  • 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.
  • replotting — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
  • reptilious — like a reptile, resembling or characteristic of a reptile
  • ripidolite — a mineral of the chlorite group, essentially hydrated magnesium and aluminum silicate with some ferrous iron.
  • seal point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
  • seal-point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
  • semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
  • septillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 24 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 42 zeros.
  • shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
  • silent cop — a small hemispherical traffic marker at an intersection
  • slip joint — a joint made between an older and a newer masonry wall to form a continuous surface, masonry at the end of the newer wall fitting into a vertical groove cut in the end of the older wall.
  • 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.
  • spallation — a nuclear reaction in which several nucleons are released from the nucleus of an atom.
  • splintwood — a thin flexible wood often used for making baskets
  • split roll — a taxation under which real-estate taxes on business and industrial buildings are levied at higher rates than on residential homes.
  • spoilsport — a person whose selfish or unsportsmanlike attitudes or actions spoil the pleasure of others, as in a game or social gathering.
  • spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
  • spoliative — blood-diminishing
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?