10-letter words containing p, r, e, l, i
- kriegspiel — (sometimes initial capital letter) a game using small figures and counters that represent troops, ships, etc., played on a map or miniature battlefield, developed for teaching military tactics to officers.
- laeotropic — oriented or coiled in a leftward direction, as a left-spiraling snail shell.
- laid paper — paper with fine parallel and cross lines produced in manufacturing.
- lampadaire — a pedestal of the Empire period for a lamp or candelabrum.
- lapidaries — Plural form of lapidary.
- 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.
- lectorship — a lecturer in a college or university.
- 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.
- let it rip — If you let it rip, you do something forcefully and without trying to control yourself.
- lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.
- limitrophe — (of a country or region) on or near a frontier
- 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.
- lipochrome — any of the naturally occurring pigments that contain a lipid, as carotene.
- lippershey — Hans. died ?1619, Dutch lens grinder, who built the first telescope
- 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.
- list price — the price at which a product is usually sold to the public and from which a trade discount is computed by a wholesaler.
- liver opal — a form of opal having a reddish-brown coloration
- liver pâté — pâté made from minced liver meat
- liver spot — a dark brown skin spot, usually caused by sun exposure
- livescript — JavaScript
- longprimer — in printing, a size of type intermediate between small pica and bourgeois
- loperamide — a substance, C 29 H 33 ClN 2 O 2 , used in the treatment of diarrhea.
- loup river — a river in E central Nebraska, flowing E to the Platte River. 68 miles (109 km) long.
- low-priced — selling at a low price; inexpensive; cheap.
- lupercalia — a festival held in ancient Rome on the 15th of February to promote fertility and ward off disasters.
- mailperson — A mailman or mailwoman.
- metropolis — any large, busy city.
- micropyles — Plural form of micropyle.
- microsleep — a moment of sleep followed by disorientation, experienced especially by persons suffering from narcolepsy or sleep deprivation.
- millepores — Plural form of millepore.
- milliprobe — an instrument that analyses very small quantities of material
- montpelier — a state of the NE United States: a part of New England. 9609 sq. mi. (24,885 sq. km). Capital: Montpelier. Abbreviation: VT (for use with zip code), Vt.
- morpholine — a colorless, hygroscopic liquid, C 4 H 9 NO, used chiefly as a solvent for dyes, resins, and waxes.
- multiparae — Plural form of multipara.
- multiplier — a person or thing that multiplies.
- multipower — Of or pertaining to more than one power (in various senses).
- nalorphine — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 1 9 H 2 1 NO 3 , used to nullify respiratory depression due to narcotics and for the diagnosis of addiction to narcotics.
- naperville — a city in NE Illinois.
- necrophile — (sexuality) One who is subject to necrophilia.
- necrophily — Necrophilia.
- necropolis — a cemetery, especially one of large size and usually of an ancient city.
- negrophile — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- nephralgia — kidney pain.
- nephridial — Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
- nephrolith — a renal calculus; kidney stone.
- neutrophil — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- nipplewort — a yellow-flowered plant, Lapsana communis, found in woods and on wasteland.