10-letter words containing p, o, l
- operculate — having an operculum.
- ophicleide — a musical wind instrument, a development of the old wooden serpent, consisting of a conical metal tube bent double.
- ophiolater — a person who worships snakes
- ophiolatry — the worship of snakes.
- ophiolitic — composed of, or relating to ophiolite
- ophthalmia — inflammation of the eye, especially of its membranes or external structures.
- ophthalmic — of or relating to the eye; ocular.
- ophthalmo- — indicating the eye or the eyeball
- oppilative — obstructive; blocking
- opposeless — tolerating no opposition or resistance; irresistible.
- opposingly — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- oppositely — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- optatively — In an optative way.
- optimality — The property of being optimal.
- optionable — the power or right of choosing.
- optionally — left to one's choice; not required or mandatory: Formal dress is optional.
- optologist — a person who tests eyes for lenses
- oropendola — any of several birds of the genus Gymnostinops, related to crows and feeding primarily on fruit and nectar, noted especially for their hanging nests.
- osteoplast — An osteoblast.
- ostpolitik — the German policy toward the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, especially the expansionist views of Hitler in the 1930s and the normalization program of the West German government in the 1960s and 1970s.
- outleaping — Present participle of outleap.
- outplaying — Present participle of outplay.
- outsparkle — to sparkle more brilliantly than
- outspeckle — a spectacle
- overlapped — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- overpeople — to overpopulate: The town has been overpeopled by those leaving the farms.
- overplaced — placed above
- oversimple — excessively simple
- oversimply — in an oversimple manner
- oversupply — an excessive supply.
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
- paddle box — a structure enclosing a paddle wheel.
- paddleboat — a boat propelled by a paddle wheel.
- paddymelon — any of several small Australian wallabies, especially of the genus Thylogale.
- paedophile — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- pair royal — Cribbage. a set of three cards of the same denomination, worth six points.
- palaeocene — of, denoting, or formed in the first epoch of the Tertiary period, which lasted for 10 million years
- palaeogaea — the Old World as a biological region
- palaeogene — of or formed in the Palaeocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs
- palaeolith — a stone tool dating to the Palaeolithic
- palaeology — the study of prehistory
- palaeotype — a system of Roman letters and symbols that represent spoken sounds
- palaeozoic — of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period
- palagonite — a yellow basaltic glass
- palatogram — Phonetics. a diagram or photograph obtained through palatography.
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- pali canon — a collection of scriptures, originally recorded from oral traditions in the 1st century b.c., divided into one of three parts (Pitaka) sermons () the rules of the Buddhist order () and several treatises on philosophy and psychology ()
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palindrome — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.