10-letter words containing p, r, a, e
- landscaper — a gardener who does landscape gardening.
- lap dancer — a scantily dressed woman who dances erotically for individual members of the audience
- laparocele — (medicine) A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
- laparotome — a cutting instrument for performing a laparotomy.
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- lapse rate — the rate of decrease of atmospheric temperature with increase of elevation vertically above a given location.
- lapstrakes — Plural form of lapstrake.
- laser trap — a device in which atoms or particles are slowed by the use of lasers and then confined to a small region of space.
- 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.
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leafhopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leopardess — a female leopard.
- leprechaun — a dwarf or sprite.
- leptospira — any of several spirally shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Leptospira, certain species of which are pathogenic for human beings.
- lesser ape — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
- lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
- linear map — (mathematics) (Or "linear transformation") A function from a vector space to a vector space which respects the additive and multiplicative structures of the two: that is, for any two vectors, u, v, in the source vector space and any scalar, k, in the field over which it is a vector space, a linear map f satisfies f(u+kv) = f(u) + kf(v).
- lipizzaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
- lippizaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
- lipreading — the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of spoken words from the movements of another's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- liver opal — a form of opal having a reddish-brown coloration
- liver pâté — pâté made from minced liver meat
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- loves park — a town in N Illinois.
- lunarscape — the landscape of the moon.
- lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
- mabe pearl — a smooth cultured pearl cultivated in a hemispherical shape so that it has one flat and one convex surface.
- macpherson — James, 1736–96, Scottish author and translator.
- macrophage — a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue and in the bloodstream, that ingests foreign particles and infectious microorganisms by phagocytosis.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- macropores — Plural form of macropore.
- macroscope — A wide-field imaging device.
- macrospore — megaspore.
- madrepores — Plural form of madrepore.
- madreporic — Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
- magstripes — Plural form of magstripe.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- mainpernor — a person who gives a guarantee that a prisoner will appear in court
- map turtle — any of several aquatic turtles of the genus Graptemys, as G. geographica, of the eastern and central U.S., usually having yellow stripes on the head and neck.
- mareograph — marigraph.
- marker pen — a pen with a thick tip made of felt
- market cap — A market cap is the total market value of all the shares in a company.
- marprelate — Martin, the pen name of the anonymous author or authors of a series of satirical Puritan tracts (1588–89), attacking the bishops of the Church of England
- mascarpone — a very soft Italian cream cheese made from cow's milk.
- masspriest — a Roman Catholic priest
- masterplan — a general plan or program for achieving an objective.
- mastership — the office, function, or authority of a master.
- maupertuis — Pierre Louis Moreau de [pyer lwee maw-roh duh] /pyɛr lwi mɔˈroʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1698–1759, French mathematician, astronomer, and biologist.
- measure up — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.