10-letter words containing r, e, p, l
- 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.
- painkiller — a drug, treatment, or anything else that relieves pain, especially an analgesic.
- palaestral — relating to the palaestra
- palavering — a conference or discussion.
- palaverous — a conference or discussion.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- palfrenier — a person whose duty is to tend to horses
- 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.
- palisander — Brazilian rosewood.
- pallbearer — one of several persons who carry or attend the coffin at a funeral.
- palletizer — a machine that packs, dismantles, or secures pallets
- palm grove — small forest of palm trees
- palmcorder — A palmcorder is a small video camera that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- palmerworm — the larva of a tineid moth, Dichomeris ligulella, of the eastern U.S., that feeds on the leaves of apple and other fruit trees.
- palpebrate — having eyelids.
- paltriness — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- panelboard — a compact pressboard for use in constructing sides of cabinets, paneling for walls, and in other nonstructural applications.
- panhandler — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- pantagruel — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- paper clip — small clasp that holds papers together
- paper doll — a paper or cardboard, usually two-dimensional, representation of the human figure, used as a child's toy.
- paper gold — special drawing rights.
- paper loss — an investment loss which has occurred but not yet been realized
- paper mill — factory where paper is made
- paper-clip — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
- parablepsy — a hallucination
- parabolize — to form as a parabola or paraboloid.
- paracelsus — Philippus Aureolus [fi-lip-uh s aw-ree-oh-luh s] /fɪˈlɪp əs ɔˈri oʊ ləs/ (Show IPA), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) 1493?–1541, Swiss physician and alchemist.
- paradiddle — an exercise or sequence performed typically on the snare drum, marked by four basic beats with alternation of the right hand and left hand on successive strong beats, and begun and ended slowly with a dramatic increase in tempo in the middle.
- paraglider — Also called parawing. a steerable glider with inflatable wings proposed for use as an emergency vehicle for travel between a space station and the earth or for the recovery of rocket boosters.
- paralepsis — paralipsis.
- parallel c — 1. (language, parallel) Never implemented, but influenced the design of C*. [Details?] 2. C for the transputer by 3L. 3. (PC) Extensions to C developed at the University of Houston providing a shared memory SIMD model on message passing computers. E-mail: Ridgway Scott <[email protected]>.
- paralleled — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- parallelly — extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees.
- paralogize — to draw conclusions that do not follow logically from a given set of assumptions.
- parapineal — situated beside the pineal gland
- paraplegia — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- paraselene — a bright moonlike spot on a lunar halo; a mock moon.
- parasexual — of or relating to any form of reproduction in which the recombination of genes occurs by a process other than the fusion of gametes
- parawalker — a metal structure fitted over the body to enable a disabled person to walk
- parcel net — a large bag made of netting attached inside (the boot or trunk of) a car and used to store loose items, such as groceries, sports equipment, or parcels, etc