10-letter words containing p, o, s, l
- hospitably — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- hotel ship — a ship which is moored and used as a hotel
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- hyaloplasm — ground substance.
- hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
- hypoblasts — Plural form of hypoblast.
- hypocotyls — Plural form of hypocotyl.
- hypoplasia — Pathology. abnormal deficiency of cells or structural elements.
- hypsophyll — a leaf located beneath a spore-bearing leaf
- impersonal — not personal; without reference or connection to a particular person: an impersonal remark.
- implexuous — not simple; complicated
- implosions — Plural form of implosion.
- imposingly — very impressive because of great size, stately appearance, dignity, elegance, etc.: Notre Dame, Rheims, and other imposing cathedrals of France.
- impossible — not possible; unable to be, exist, happen, etc.
- impossibly — not possible; unable to be, exist, happen, etc.
- impulsions — Plural form of impulsion.
- inceptisol — a soil so young that horizons have just begun to form: especially prevalent in tundra areas.
- inpossible — Obsolete spelling of impossible.
- interlopes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlope.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- island-hop — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- iso pascal — A Lex scanner and Yacc parser are in the comp.sources.unix volume 13 archive.
- isocephaly — (of a composition) having the heads of all figures on approximately the same level.
- isoplethic — Relating to isopleths.
- isopluvial — a line on a map connecting places registering the same amount of precipitation or rainfall
- isopycnals — Plural form of isopycnal.
- jon postel — (person) (Jonathan Bruce Postel, 1943 - 1998-10-16) /p*-stel'/ One of the Internet's founding fathers. Jon's name is prominent on many of the fundamental standards on which the Internet is built, such as UDP. He ran IANA for as long as anybody could remember, in fact for most of the time he *was* IANA. He wrote STD 1, STD 2 and several dozen other RFCs. His friend Vinton Cerf noted his passing in RFC 2468.
- kannapolis — a town in W North Carolina.
- karyoplasm — nucleoplasm.
- kiloparsec — a unit of distance, equal to 1000 parsecs. Abbreviation: kpc.
- kilopascal — one thousand pascals
- l'hospital — Guillaume François Antoine de [gee-yohm frahn-swa ahn-twan duh] /giˈyoʊm frɑ̃ˈswa ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1661–1704, French mathematician.
- la perouse — Jean François de Galaup [zhahn frahn-swa duh ga-loh] /ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃ˈswa də gaˈloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1741–88, French naval officer and explorer.
- lactoscope — an optical device for determining the amount of cream in milk.
- lagomorphs — Plural form of lagomorph.
- lake poets — the English poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, who lived in and drew inspiration from the Lake District at the beginning of the 19th century
- lake pskov — the S part of Lake Peipus in NW Russia, linked to the main part by a channel 24 km (15 miles) long. Area: about 1000 sq km (400 sq miles)
- lampoonist — One who lampoons.
- laserscope — a surgical instrument that employs a laser beam to destroy diseased tissue or to create small channels; used to open clogged arteries and, in ophthalmology, to treat patients with glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy.
- lay person — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- leopardess — a female leopard.
- leptosomic — a person of asthenic build.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- leptospire — Any bacterium of the genus Leptospira.
- leucoplast — a colorless plastid in the cells of roots, storage organs, and underground stems, serving as a point around which starch forms.