10-letter words containing p, o, l, n
- spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
- spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
- spondaical — composed of spondees
- spondylous — relating to a vertebra or vertebrae
- spongeable — able to be cleaned with a sponge
- spongocoel — the central cavity in the body of a sponge.
- spongology — the study of sponges
- sponsional — relating to, involved in or entering into a sponsion
- spoon nail — an abnormal condition in which the outer surfaces of the nails are concave; koilonychia.
- sportingly — engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
- springlock — a lock that fastens automatically by a spring.
- stop plank — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
- stylophone — a type of battery-powered electronic instrument played with a steel-tipped penlike stylus
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sulphonium — the hypothetical univalent radical -SH3
- sun parlor — a porch or room with many windows exposed to sunshine; sun porch; solarium.
- suppletion — the use in inflection or derivation of an allomorph that is not related in form to the primary allomorph of a morpheme, as the use of better as the comparative of good.
- synaloepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- tablespoon — a spoon larger than a teaspoon or a dessert spoon, used in serving food at the table and as a standard measuring unit in recipes.
- tau lepton — an unstable lepton with a mass approximately 3500 times that of the electron. Symbol: T.
- technopole — an area with high-tech industrial research and development facilities
- telephoned — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
- telephonic — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
- tetrapylon — a structure having four gateways as features of an architectural composition.
- thiophenol — a colorless, foul-smelling liquid, C 6 H 6 S, used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- topgallant — a sail or either of two sails set on the yard or yards of a topgallant mast.
- trampoline — a sheet, usually of canvas, attached by resilient cords or springs to a horizontal frame several feet above the floor, used by acrobats and gymnasts as a springboard in tumbling.
- transpolar — of or relating to the North or South Pole.
- transposal — transposition.
- treponemal — any of several anaerobic spirochetes of the genus Treponema, certain species of which are parasitic in and pathogenic for humans and warm-blooded animals.
- trollopian — Anthony, 1815–82, English novelist.
- tropaeolin — any of a number of orange or yellow azo dyes of complex molecular structure.
- uncomplete — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- uncoupling — to release the coupling or link between; disconnect; let go: to uncouple railroad cars.
- undeplored — not hopeless or lamented
- unemployed — not employed; without a job; out of work: an unemployed secretary.
- unexploded — having not exploded
- unexplored — to traverse or range over (a region, area, etc.) for the purpose of discovery: to explore the island.
- unimplored — to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy; beseech; entreat: They implored him to go.
- unopenable — not capable of being opened
- unoptional — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- unpastoral — not used or suitable for pasture
- unperilous — not hazardous or dangerous
- unpillowed — having no pillow or pillows
- unploughed — not tilled with a plough
- unpolicied — not politically or socially organized
- unpolished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- unpolitely — impolitely
- unpolluted — made unclean or impure; contaminated; tainted: swimming in polluted waters.
- unpopulous — not populous; sparsely populated