10-letter words containing p, o, l, n
- polyphonic — consisting of many voices or sounds.
- polysemant — a word with multiple meanings
- polytunnel — a large tunnel made of polythene and used as a greenhouse
- polyvalent — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- ponchielli — Amilcare [ah-meel-kah-re] /ɑˈmil kɑ rɛ/ (Show IPA), 1834–86, Italian composer.
- pond snail — a general term for the freshwater snails: often specifically for the great pond snail (Limnaea stagnalis) and others of that genus. L. truncatula is a host of the liver fluke
- pond-apple — a tropical American, evergreen tree, Annona glabra, of the annona family, having yellowish-red flowers, grown as a grafting stock.
- ponderable — capable of being considered carefully or deeply.
- ponerology — a theory of evil
- ponticello — a bridge on a stringed instrument
- pontifical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- ponytailed — having a ponytail
- pool train — a train operating over a track owned by two or more railway companies.
- poplinette — a poplin-like fabric
- population — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- portliness — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
- positional — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- postliminy — the right by which persons and things taken in war are restored to their former status when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- potentilla — any rosaceous plant or shrub of the N temperate genus Potentilla, having five-petalled flowers
- poultryman — a person who raises domestic fowls, especially chickens, to sell as meat; a chicken farmer.
- power line — a line for conducting electric power.
- powerplant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- pozzolanic — (of a cement admixture) having properties similar to those of pozzolana.
- pozzuolana — a porous variety of volcanic tuff or ash used in making hydraulic cement.
- prairillon — a small prairie.
- 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.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- precooling — Precooling is a process which improves the performance of a unit by reducing the compressor load and the head pressure.
- prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
- prelection — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- prenominal — being such in name only; so-called; putative: a nominal treaty; the nominal head of the country.
- prepollent — having power; predominant
- prevail on — to persuade; induce
- prochloron — any spherical, photosynthetic, prokaryotic microorganism of the genus Prochloron, occurring in subtropical and tropical habitats in symbiosis with various invertebrates, especially marine chordates, proposed as ancestral to the chloroplast of green algae and plants.
- proclinate — (of a part) directed or inclined forward.
- profluence — abundance
- profoundly — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- profulgent — radiant
- proinsulin — the prohormone of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic removal of part of the molecule.
- prolongate — to prolong.
- pronominal — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
- pronuclear — of or relating to a pronucleus.
- pronucleus — either of the gametic nuclei that unite in fertilization to form the nucleus of the zygote.
- propellant — a propelling agent.
- propellent — serving or tending to propel or drive forward.
- propelling — to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
- propelment — the act of propulsion